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USA Today Co., along with the several local newspapers it owns, is suing OpenAI over claims that the company copied 'hundreds of thousands' of articles to train its AI models, as reported earlier by R

Stevie Bonifield / The Verge: Microsoft opens preorders for the $5,999 Surface RTX Spark Dev Box, with 128GB of unified memory to run local models with 120B+ parameters, shipping in November — Microso

Michael Kan / PCMag: Nvidia announces a version of DGX Spark with 64 GB of unified memory for 4,999, or 1,000 more than the 128 GB version at launch — The ongoing memory shortage has prompted Nvidia t

Local AI is becoming more useful by the token. As AI agents move from experiments into everyday development, increasingly capable open models are shrinking to fit on more devices, giving builders more

The Nvidia Deploy repository provides open‑source C++ samples that pair ONNX Runtime with the TensorRT RTX execution provider to accelerate local inference on Windows and Linux. It separates model exp

Brandon Pho / Mission Local: A profile of Mariano-Florentino Cuéllar, Anthropic's first global affairs chief, who had helped shape California's first AI safety law in 2025 — In a hot and dry border to

Reuters: Chinese local governments are offering subsidies like computing vouchers, rent waivers, and dedicated funding to lure AI filmmakers as part of China's AI push — When Zhu Zhili was looking for

Enterprises are increasingly standardizing on Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) to run their most critical and AI-driven workloads. From Cloud Storage FUSE for high-throughput data access to custom compu

SWE‑Serve evaluates AI coding agents on 53 inference‑engineering tasks derived from SGLang pull requests across six functional domains. Among 19 tasks that launch a live server, patches that pass loca

SemiAnalysis: A deep dive into on-device and data center inference for robots, including a primer on robot models, deployments, supply chains, the “network wall”, and more — Robot Models, Silicon & DR

Robotics forces AI models to run on‑device because real‑time control loops cannot tolerate the latency or capital cost of sending data to a datacenter, so manufacturers must embed compute within each

Zhiye Liu / Tom's Hardware: Nvidia announces the RTX Pro 5500 Blackwell Workstation Edition, offering comparable specs to the RTX 5090 but with 84GB of GDDR7 memory, vs. RTX 5090's 32GB — The GeForce

As local models become more capable, AI agents can handle more work directly on a PC while keeping sensitive information on the device. Portable Computer is a local version of the agent Perplexity Com

Amazon SageMaker HyperPod now supports model caching for inference, which pre-loads model weights and container images onto cluster nodes so pods read from local NVMe storage instead of downloading ov

Bloomberg: Sources: Sam Altman told OpenAI employees that the company is considering slowing cutting-edge AI development, and he hopes other AI companies will do the same — OpenAI is considering slowi

Tool: .blend URL Viewer I'm continuing to have a lot of fun with GPT-6 Astra and Blender (see my TIL). As a big fan of the Imperial Fabergé Easter eggs, I've always thought it would be fun to make som

Nvidia Corp. is targeting artificial intelligence agent enthusiasts with a new local distributed clustering tool called the Personal AI Router. It enables them to use any idle Mac computers or PCs lyi

Jennifer Pattison Tuohy / The Verge: Anker unveils the Eufy MindBase, a local AI hub for its cameras that runs an on-device, Anker-developed LLM, with a dedicated AI chip and up to 48TB of storage — T

NVIDIA’s PAIR Virtual Inference Router distributes AI inference requests across multiple local machines—supporting Ollama and LM Studio without any agent or harness changes—to mitigate multi‑agent bot

Frontier intelligence is going local. At IFA 2026, NVIDIA, Microsoft and its partners are teaming up to provide faster inference and new tools that make agents easier to set up and run locally on NVID

Colin Demarest / Axios: New Jersey-based Aitan, which offers “robotic sovereignty as a service” and “edge AI weapon systems”, emerges from stealth with $41M led by Deep33 and Dell — - “Warfare has tot

Aaron Tilley / The Information: Sources: OpenAI bought tens of thousands of Macs for RL, Anthropic rents them, Nvidia sees Apple as its main local AI rival as Macs gain traction with AI devs — The hot

Andreessen Horowitz today announced that it has raised a 1.1 billion fund to back artificial intelligence infrastructure startups. The Machine Age Fund will invest in companies that make data center e

Uber has a lot in common with the cities it serves. Both are always changing and growing, both must carefully manage the resulting traffic to prevent congestion and sprawl. Uber has continuously evolv

Researchers at nonhuman identity security company Oasis Security Ltd. today disclosed a vulnerability in Nvidia Corp.’s NemoClaw that hands an attacker full control of the local model server powering

Eugene Demaitre / The Robot Report: Nvidia unveils the Jetson Orin Nano 2 edge AI computer that it says doubles inference performance, with 78 TOPS of AI compute and an eight-core Arm CPU — As AI mode

And this was a debug session from hell, enormously helped by an AI doing much of the grunt-work. I'd like to call it my tireless helper, but the AI several times stated flat out that this was impossib

NVIDIA’s Cosmos 3 Edge is a 4‑billion‑parameter omni‑model (with a 2‑billion‑parameter Nemotron reasoner) that can run on an NVIDIA Jetson Thor, providing on‑device policy inference for robot manipula

Indonesia is taking charge of its AI future. This week, the Ministry of Communication and Digital Affairs (Komdigi), Indosat Ooredoo Hutchison (Indosat or IOH), NVIDIA and Universitas Gadjah Mada (UGM

The open source ecosystem is making it easier for AI enthusiasts and developers to build, customize and run increasingly capable agents locally. Throughout August, NVIDIA is celebrating the partners a

Cade Metz / New York Times: xAI co-founder Igor Babuschkin's River AI raised $1B led by General Catalyst to build home or small business computer servers capable of running AI locally — Igor Babuschki

What’s the best way to recommend products to little-known users? We’ve spent our careers trying to solve this problem for major companies like Spotify and Priceline, and it’s why Sidd founded Malachyt

Shane Burke / The Information: US data center bans top 500, up from 300+ in late June, as New York and Texas join cities and counties pushing back against data center development — Local government re

AI agents on Amazon Bedrock AgentCore run in the cloud, but users' tools and files live on their laptops. Learn how to build a secure MCP bridge that lets a cloud-hosted agent call local MCP servers b

Welcome to the second Cloud CISO Perspectives for July 2026. Today, Chris Betz, CISO, Google Cloud, and Alicja Cade, Senior Director, Office of the CISO, Google Cloud, explain what boards of directors

Physical AI is forcing the technology industry to rethink the entire computing stack. Robots, autonomous systems and intelligent devices need economical inference, secure data access and infrastructur

Siri Expressive Voices synthesize rich, configurable speech in real time and entirely on device, powered by AFM 3 Core Advanced, Apple’s most powerful on-device foundation model. This work presents th

Perplexity has expanded its agentic Personal Computer tool to Windows, allowing computers running the world's most popular OS to be used as a locally run AI system. Like the Mac version that Perplexit

As AI moves beyond chatbots toward autonomous agents, attention is shifting enterprise AI PCs as a new layer of AI infrastructure. That transition is driving demand for hardware and software designed

NVIDIA founder and CEO Jensen Huang today visited the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, California, to commission an NVIDIA DGX GB300 system — bringing one of the world’s most powerful AI platfor

Nativ: Run AI models locally on your Mac Prince Canuma is the developer behind the excellent MLX-VLM Python library for running vision-LLMs using MLX on a Mac. I'm really excited about his new project

Erin Davis calls it the “SuperDuperPOD.” That’s two things in one name: pharmaceutical giant Bristol Myers Squibb (BMS) already runs one of the largest AI clusters in life sciences, with serious resul

General-purpose robots and autonomous machines are moving from research labs to real-world mass-market deployment, creating demand for compact, power-efficient AI supercomputers capable of running fou

A local coding agent, an in-app customer assistant, and an AI SRE triaging production logs may all use the same model class—but not the same harness, eval plan, or rollout risk. Mastra CEO Sam Bhagwat

The race to build the fastest AI infrastructure is reshaping the semiconductor industry, with inference speed emerging as the defining competitive dimension of the AI era. As AI model wars intensify a

In this post, we walk through five capabilities now available in SageMaker HyperPod inference: multi-tier data capture for auditing and model improvement, direct deployment from Hugging Face Hub, loca