You don't need an expensive GPU to run a local LLM that actually works
…I'm saving almost 90% of the power and sacrificing token speed and context. Instead of around 25 tokens per second, I'm pushing around 5. It's not fast, by any…
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I've been running some of the biggest open-weight LLMs for free on Nvidia's cloud
…You don't need to submit a credit card, there's no per-token billing, and more importantly, there's no GPU cost that you have to pay yourself. There are presumably…
Claude Code's usage breakdown showed me which of my own habits were burning my limits
Mahnoor Faisal Jun 23, 2026, 3:00 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…
Intel's New Arc Pro GPUs show what the consumer cards should have been
…The company is orienting itself around edge AI and focusing on bringing AI processing directly to consumers, rather than competing for workloads it no longer believes it has a competitive edge in…
I tested every AI vibe-coding tool to finish a real project, and they all choke at the same point
…What you're paying for is to debug, because every fix the AI makes costs credits, and every fix introduces a new bug that costs more credits. A Figma Make user posted…
I ran a powerful local AI model on my laptop, and it didn’t feel like a compromise
…By delivering dense, frontier-level reasoning within a modest 12-billion-parameter footprint, Google has changed the rules of on-device AI. So what are you waiting for? The future of AI…
IPv8 looked like a real plan to fix the internet, but it was one man, an AI chatbot, and a GoFundMe page
…if you need a token to make a request, how do you make a request to get the token in the first place? Not only that, but putting authentication that deep in…
Claude Code's creator keeps sharing tips, and they all made my experience better
…conversation, /cost to see token usage statistics, and more. You can simply type / to see every command available to you. Want to stay in the loop with the latest in AI? The…
Ollama is still the easiest way to start local LLMs, but it's the worst way to keep running them
…Sign in to your XDA account If you've ever looked into running AI models on your own hardware, you've almost certainly come across Ollama. It's the default recommendation in…
I tried an open-source Figma alternative, and its AI does what Figma's can't
…OpenPencil's AI is kind of the whole point You just hit Ctrl + J to open the AI assistant in the sidebar, then connect a provider - Anthropic, OpenAI, Google AI, OpenRouter, or…