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Google rejected the link on the grounds that the receiving organization is not tax-exempt, even after the project supplied Open Source Collective's IRS 501(c)(6) determination letter (GitHub issue). Google's stated policy permits donations to "a validated tax-exempt organization," and its response to the letter still asserted the org is not tax-exempt. Removal from Play worldwide except India and Russia after the deadline. Maintainers stripped the link under protest while still asking why 501(c)(6) doesn't qualify.
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A spec is a press release until someone who didn't write it implements it. GitHub made Agent Plugins 1.0 generally available on August 12 across VS Code, Copilot CLI, the Copilot SDK, and the Copilot app on all plans. The spec, published August 6, was co-authored by AWS, Anysp...
Tracer.AI filed a DMCA notice on Microsoft's behalf alleging Luanti's Android app infringes Minecraft, and Google removed it; the Luanti team published the account August 27 and calls the claim baseless (Luanti). The notice cited only a copyright registration number for Minecr...
One file handles tokenizer, transformer, KV cache, sampling and CPU kernels with no external library doing the interesting parts, producing about a 5.0 GB model file (GitHub). Weights are int8 with FP16 scales, linear-layer inputs dynamically quantized to int8, other activatio...
Three things happened this month that only make sense together. Agent Plugins 1.0 shipped co-signed by six competitors: AWS, Anysphere, Microsoft, OpenAI, Vercel and Google (GitHub Changelog). It makes skills-plus-MCP bundles portable across clients. OpenAI's August 11 Codex c...
guillaumemeyer/watermarks-remover appeared August 11 and hit 634 stars and 61 forks in 24 hours, targeting provenance marks from Anthropic, Google's SynthID-Text, OpenAI, and Kirchenbauer-style implementations across three layers: invisible Unicode hygiene, statistical token-s...
Language packs like samber/cc-skills-golang, 1,600-plus cross-tool libraries, harnesses like DeerFlow with built-in skills, even Google's Workspace CLI bundling agent skills. The unit of reuse shifted from prompts and MCP tools to portable markdown skills that travel across Cl...
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