…always have to have a gaming PC that costs more than half a year's rent. A lot of the smaller local AI models are ridiculously usable, too. Modern CPUs, integrated graphics…
Mahnoor Faisal Apr 13, 2026, 4:30 PM EDT Mahnoor Faisal is a tech journalist covering AI and productivity tools with bylines at XDA , SlashGear , MakeUseOf , Laptop Mag , and Android Police . She…
Jasmine Mannan Mar 21, 2026, 3:30 PM EDT Jasmine is Software and PC Hardware Author at XDA with years of tech reporting experience ranging from AI chatbots right down to gaming…
…But after months of experimenting with AI for technical planning and decision-making, I started wondering whether speed was actually the right metric to optimize for. The more I used AI, the…
…Closed source pushes the cost of attack up by a small constant factor, but AI is pushing it down by orders of magnitude. Think about speed limits for a moment, and bear…
…However, you don't necessarily need more GPU horsepower to push your frame rates higher, thanks to AI upscaling and frame generation . While upscaling lets your GPU render at a lower internal…
Jasmine Mannan Mar 22, 2026, 10:00 AM EDT Jasmine is Software and PC Hardware Author at XDA with years of tech reporting experience ranging from AI chatbots right down to gaming…
Jasmine Mannan May 26, 2026, 10:00 AM EDT Jasmine is Software and PC Hardware Author at XDA with years of tech reporting experience ranging from AI chatbots right down to gaming…
…The company says that the GPUs are "optimized with a fully validated, open software stack that scales AI performance from single to multi-GPU deployments." Both GPUs are built on Intel's…
…When I did try to streamline my tax filing by using Copilot to sort certain data, the AI tool wasn't useful at all. I ended up using AI tools like Claude…