Google’s native app for Windows beats Microsoft at its own game
…CEO Satya Nadella's cloud-first strategy helped Azure grow into a genuine rival to AWS and Google Cloud in the enterprise market. 08 / 8 AI Race The AI race between Google…
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The Googlebook could finally bring Linux to mainstream users, if Google gets out of its own way
…The Googlebook seems to want to change this by leaning heavily into AI and Google Gemini, but I strongly believe this is a failing strategy. Users are not buying PCs for the…
Gemini for Home is a subscription trap disguised as smarter automation
…If you stop paying the monthly fee, your Nest cameras revert to basic standard motion detectors, exposing how corporate AI strategies are designed around permanent software gatekeeping. An LLM doesn't make…
Claude plus a local LLM cuts my AI costs in half, and I'm never going back to cloud-only
…It took a quarterly look at my Anthropic billing page to see what those dozens of ostensibly sensible top-ups added to, which finally made me rethink my entire strategy. Most of…
Microsoft's Windows 11 push backfired, so it's quietly keeping Windows 10 alive for another year
…However, you must plan and save up for a PC upgrade before hitting the OS termination point if you plan to stay with the Windows ecosystem. Microsoft has a lineup of AI…
Microsoft’s Nvidia RTX Spark-powered Surface Laptop Ultra will push Windows on Arm further than ever
…Microsoft says the laptop's powerful chip features Blackwell RTX cores, power-efficient cores, and up to 128GB of unified memory, supporting up to 1 petaflop of AI compute power, and that…
Intel's $949 GPU has 32GB of VRAM for local AI, but the software is why Nvidia keeps winning
…I've tested local LLMs on an Intel Arc A770, and it doesn't help that Intel hasn't really worked out its AI strategy yet when it comes to local tooling…
Testing new LLMs shouldn't require five subscriptions, and OpenRouter proves it
…A home lab script, a writing helper, a local dashboard, or a coding tool doesn’t need a corporate AI procurement strategy. It needs a model that behaves well, costs the right…
AMD shipped Nvidia's new AI laptop over a year ago, and the software is finally catching up
…After all, CUDA is the reason "just buy Nvidia" is a genuinely successful strategy, and ROCm, AMD's alternative, has historically lacked many of the features developers need for local AI deployment…
I ditched Plex, Google Photos, and iCloud for self-hosted alternatives, and Pangolin made it actually work
…He is the founder of TechLatest, where he has spent years providing technical analysis on hardware and Windows ecosystems. Now a Computing Writer at XDA, Shekhar leverages his deep background in NAS…