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My 7-year-old GPU runs local AI perfectly, and I don't need my cloud subscriptions anymore

You don't always need an RTX 5090 to run useful models ...

Surface RTX Spark Dev Box Features, Price, Specs, Where to buy, Release date

Surface RTX Spark Dev Box is a compact, small-form-factor desktop PC that is built specifically for developers and data ...

Microsoft debuts Surface RTX Spark Dev Box to run large AI models without cloud costs

Microsoft’s new Surface RTX Spark Dev Box packs Nvidia Blackwell AI power and 128GB of unified memory to run large AI models locally, helping developers cut cloud costs and rethink enterprise AI ...
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Qualcomm acquires AI startup Modular in open ecosystem bet to challenge CUDA

Founded by the mind behind the Swift programming language, Modular’s 'write once, run anywhere' stack looks to accelerate ...
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Qualcomm’s $3.9 billion purchase of Modular aims to change the data center dynamic

Qualcomm paints the deal as delivering ‘a silicon-agnostic compute layer’ to make data centers more flexible and cost-effective.

FortiBleed campaign used custom FortiGate sniffer to steal credentials

Security firm SOCRadar says the large-scale FortiBleed campaign targeting Fortinet FortiGate devices used custom sniffers to ...
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Open-Source Coding Model Ornith-1.0 Writes Its Own Training Scaffold in Reinforcement Learning

DeepReinforce today released Ornith-1.0, a family of open-source coding models built around a mechanism most RL-trained agents avoid: the model itself writes the training harness that guides its own ...

Own It Or Rent It? A CIO's Framework For AI Deployment

​"Own or rent" has become the pivotal AI question for every CIO. In the rush of the last two years, the default was to ...

Kimi K2.7-Code cuts thinking tokens 30% — but practitioners say the benchmarks don't check out

Kimi K2.7-Code claims 30% fewer thinking tokens and a drop-in API swap path, but independent benchmarks show kernel ...

Dell Pro Max 18 Plus review: I tested this giant in an AI startup lab and it refused to sweat

The Dell Pro Max 18 Plus wants to give you all the desktop-tier firepower in the world. In return, you must be ready to bear its sheer bulk and the cost burden. The Latest Tech News, Delivered to Your ...
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Plain-language AI workflow tool could cut cloud energy use and costs dramatically

Agentic workflows are artificial intelligence-powered software systems that chain together multiple models and external tools ...