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‘Bots have now passed human traffic online,’ Cloudflare boss laments — says agentic traffic wasn’t expected to eclipse real people until next year
5d agoMicrosoft unveils Project Solara AI, a chip-to-cloud platform built to power a new generation of 'agent-first' enterprise devices — hardware designed to run AI agents instead of traditional apps
6d agoNvidia unveils RTX Spark Superchip for laptops and desktop PCs at Computex 2026 – new platform promises to turn Windows into an agentic AI OS with Arm CPU, Blackwell GPU, and 128GB unified memory
1w agoAI costs begin to bite as agents may increase token demand by 24 times, says Goldman Sachs report — Uber and Microsoft among companies feeling the bite of tokenized billing
1w agoQualcomm Roundtable Interview transcript — SVP of Compute and Gaming talks Snapdragon C, RTX Spark, and the agentic AI future
…Do you see a primary device managing the personal AI agents? Would it be a smartphone, a transportable puck, a locally hosted cloud instance, for example? Qualcomm Representative: I think the orchestrator…
TikTok owner ByteDance is reportedly developing its own custom AI CPUs — company looks to ease China's dependence on US chipmakers
…The move comes in a context where inference-heavy agentic AI is quickly becoming the new normal. The project is seemingly in the concept and design stage, with Reuters' sources claiming that…
Nvidia lays out RTX Spark roadmap for laptops and desktop PCs at Computex 2026 — three generations outlined, Rubin with LPDDR6 memory, followed by Rosa Feynman
…That multi-generational promise is an important point of trust in Nvidia's commitment to transforming Windows PCs for the agentic AI era. Building a full product and partner ecosystem is a…
AMD Ryzen AI Max 400 ‘Gorgon Halo’ packs up to 192GB of unified memory — refreshed APU uses Zen 5 and RDNA 3.5, and can clock up to 5.2 GHz
…AMD says that much memory makes Ryzen AI Max 400 chips the first x86 client processors able to run a 300B+ parameter LLM. It wins in a category of one, however: Intel…
Github Copilot customers report up to 100-fold price hikes — AI sticker shock bites as Microsoft switches to usage-based pricing
…There's even a community cost estimator that popped up a while back when the news first came to light. To wit, the AI allowance in each of GitHub's subscription plans…
AMD begins production ramp of 256-core EPYC Venice — first 2nm HPC chip claims 70% performance leap
…through yield qualification on a brand-new process is a much bigger challenge. "As AI and agentic workloads scale rapidly, customers need platforms that can move from innovation to production faster," said…
Best of Computex 2026: Innovating despite disruptions
…of hardware and software partners as it drives the industry toward its vision for an agentic AI PC future. It’s one thing to ship a new chip and take an “if…
AI is starting to out-design chip engineers in narrow areas as LLMs accelerate software chip design tool development — "There is still a lot of human guidance" says Berkley researcher
…There is also the problem of what it is you are asking AI to do in the first place. Ask a model to design the best chip for AI, and without a…
Computex 2026 Day Zero Wrap-Up: Nvidia launches RTX Spark Superchip assault on laptop and desktop markets, Intel readies Xeon 6+
…Over the weekend, Nvidia announced the RTX Spark Superchip, a powerful new Arm platform designed to transform Windows 11 into an agentic AI operating system. At its heart are 20 Arm CPU…