Gate News report: On March 21, the 2026 Alliance Work Conference and First Phase Ecosystem Activity of the National Artificial Intelligence Application Pilot Base (Energy Sector, Power Direction) was held in Guangzhou. Eight enterprise institutions, including South China Grid Digital Group AI Research Center, Huawei, ZTE, and Baidu, were officially inducted as the first batch of representatives into the pilot base.

Linux Foundation's Alpha-Omega project under OpenSSF launches new initiative with $12.5 million in funding, aimed at helping open source project maintainers cope with AI-generated security vulnerability reports and feedback pressure. The plan will work with communities to provide tools and strategies, with specific details yet to be announced.

Dark Side of the Moon released a technical report proposing the use of attention mechanisms to replace residual connections in Transformers, improving computational efficiency. Elon Musk praised this work, and young co-author Chen Guangyu responded to external doubts, emphasizing teamwork. Chen Guangyu is a 17-year-old high school student who previously won at a hackathon.

Gate News, on March 17, according to monitoring, Alibaba is advancing an internal plan to provide employees with Token allowances, encouraging the use of AI models and tools in their work. Employees can use AI tools such as the Wukong and Qoder series, which originally required payment, for free, covering technical research and general office scenarios. Additionally, employees can apply for company reimbursement when purchasing Bailian Coding Plan memberships or external AI development tools.