An AI agent in a security badge? That’s Microsoft’s Project Solara pitch
… That’s the idea behind Project Solara, Microsoft’s new platform for putting AI agents in a wide range of devices beyond the standard form factors. …
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Intel's 'Nova Lake' CPU details leak: Productivity powerhouse?
… Now, AI has progressed. Agentic AI is now the watchword, and the pendulum has reportedly swung back toward the CPU. Put another way: If agentic AI is now the future, you'll want a more robust CPU once again. …
Ryzen AI Halo is AMD's $3,999 answer to maxing out ChatGPT
… As such, most AI developers take a “CUDA-first” approach to their tools, treating other architectures like Apple Metal and AMD’s ROCm platform, which plays a CUDA-equivalent role in terms of connecting software applications to its GPUs as an afterthought. …
Productivity: Tools, Tips, and Smarter Ways to Work
… News Analysis Adobe and Canva want their AI agents to replace your creative workflow Adobe Firefly AI Assistant and Canva AI 2.0 use conversational agents to automate creative workflows across all of their respective applications.
Arm finally moves into silicon
… However, its first effort will target the data center, rather than the PC or phone. Arm's first chip will be called the Arm AI CPU, designed for "AI data centers running agentic AI workloads" -- most likely, powering Meta's own AI efforts in the cloud. …
AI is still waiting for its VisiCalc moment
… Rather than saddling web browsers with more AI slop or trying to slather AI onto perfectly good user interfaces that don't need improving, Anthropic is attempting something both less flashy and potentially more fruitful: finding a practical, agentic AI-powered application for everyday business owne… …
Bluesky’s new AI app can vibe-code your social feed
… Powered by Anthropic’s Claude, Attie will let you take charge of your social graph in ways that aren’t possible on closed networks like Facebook, Instagram, and X. “You control it, you shape it, without having to write code or know how to set up those feeds,” Schneider told TechCrunch. “It’s an AI … …
Windows Insider meetups are back. I went to one and so should you
… How does Microsoft prioritize its grand, long-term vision of agentic AI with a cleaner, more accessible Windows? And how do I run agents on my Windows PC without them trashing my data? …
Googlebooks aren't just Android laptops. They're a Trojan horse for Gemini
… What's all this stuff about AI? As I said, the entire point of Googlebooks seems more to deliver a hardware platform for Google's Gemini "AI" than to actually compete with Windows, Mac, and Linux as laptop platforms. …
At Computex, the laptop market looks K-shaped
… Trying to get your money's worth out of the RTX Spark laptop platform, in gaming or other GPU-heavy productions including the "agentic AI" rigamaroll Huang touted on stage will need at least 32GB of RAM, preferably 64GB. …