Malus is a commercial "clean room as a service" that claims proprietary AI robots can recreate open-source projects from documentation and public interfaces to produce legally distinct, corporate-friendly replacements that avoid attribution, copyleft, and other license obligations. The site advertises per-KB pricing, indemnification and audit logs while making aggressive legal and ethical claims about circumventing open-source licenses.
CodeSpeak is a new programming/specification language from the creator of Kotlin designed as a formal way to communicate with LLMs, letting developers write specs that LLMs generate into working code. It claims to shrink codebases 5–10x for production-grade systems, supports mixed manual/generated projects, and presents case studies showing large LOC reductions while preserving tests.
Release 2603 adds support for the Triforce arcade system and ships major MMU/fastmem optimizations that enable full-speed execution of full-MMU games (notably Rogue Squadron III), plus a long-sought physics bug fix in Mario Strikers Charged; the report includes a technical deep dive into the Triforce and page-table/ARAM emulation work.
US banks have lent nearly $300bn to private credit providers as of June, with total lending to non-depository financial institutions reaching $1.2tn and private-credit loans rising to 10.4% of banks’ lending (up from 3.6% a decade ago). Moody’s notes banks are both financing and competing with non-bank lenders—highlighting top bank lenders and warning of potential asset-quality challenges after events like the Tricolor bankruptcy.