Apple says its AI is still private, even when it's running on Google's servers
… But with Apple Intelligence, Apple has run up against the limits of its own hardware. …
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Google's Gemma 4 AI models get 3x speed boost by predicting future tokens
… A single high-power AI accelerator can run the largest Gemma 4 model at full precision, and quantizing will let it run on a consumer GPU. Gemma allows users to tinker with AI on their hardware rather than sharing all their data with a cloud AI system from Google or someone else. …
Over a year later, AMD is bringing improved FSR 4 upscaling to its older GPUs
… RDNA4 includes AI accelerators that support the FP8 data format in the hardware, and porting FSR 4 to older GPUs meant getting it running on the integer-based INT8 hardware in the RDNA3 and RDNA2-based GPUs. …
As Grok flounders, SpaceX bets future on beating Big Tech at AI
… The company’s financial filing disclosed work with Musk’s company Tesla on the development of “Macrohard,” which it describes as “an agentic AI platform designed to be capable of fully emulating digital workflows and augmenting human operation of computers using sophisticated autonomous agents.” Th… …
Microsoft plans Linux tools and an RTX Spark desktop for Windows developers
… Microsoft is introducing a Windows-native version of the coreutils command line tools, so that commands or scripts made for Linux work within Windows and the other way around; the ability to run WSL inside of containers, said to be arriving in “the coming months”; and something called Windows Devel… …
Oracle’s 21,000 layoffs help drive its debt-fueled AI investments
… That said, AI is increasingly common for companies to cite when letting workers go. “AI is now the leading reason companies give for cutting jobs, and the primary industry citing it is technology,” Andy Challenger, CRO at outplacement firm Challenger, Gray & Christmas, said in a May 2026 report rel… …
The RAMpocalypse has bought Microsoft valuable time in the fight against SteamOS
… I mean, sure, according to Valve’s own statistics, Microsoft remains dominant. Over 92 percent of PCs in the Steam Hardware Survey run some version of Windows. …
3D-printable humanoid legs let robotics experiments run wild
… But such relatively inexpensive hardware could enable researchers to more easily test and train AI-powered robotics software in a physical body during real-world experiments. The newly available LeRobot Humanoid project comes from the machine-learning and AI development platform Hugging Face . …
The Internet can't stop watching Figure AI's humanoid robots handling packages
… That Helix 02 system runs “entirely onboard” each robot’s hardware, with AI inference being done on the device, Adcock explained in his X post. …
Google's latest DiffusionGemma open AI model comes with a 4x speed boost
… Google says this makes it faster and more efficient when running on local hardware like an Nvidia DGX or a humble gaming GPU. Most AI models are designed to be autoregressive—they generate text left to right one token at a time. …