Chinese company Sugon has released its N50 Pro laptop, which it's calling the "Thread Beast", packing the world's first 64-thread mobile CPU. Sugon Goes All Out With Its "Thread Beast" Laptop Which Packs 64 Threads & A Large 16 GB GPU For AI & Professionals The fastest CPUs that you get on today's laptops feature up to 32 threads, but Chinese company Sugon, who fall under Hygon, has introduced its latest laptop, the N50 Pro, which packs up to 64 threads. Sugon labels the N50 Pro laptop as a "Thread Beast," which comes from the fact that it features twice […]

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NVIDIA is bringing simpler local AI capabilities and adding various optimizations to its GPUs on RTX and DGX platforms. Local Agents To See Up To 1.9x Faster Performance Through Latest Optimizations Across NVIDIA RTX/DGX Platforms The first announcement is faster local agents, which are delivered through continued optimizations that NVIDIA has collaborated on with the open-source llama.cpp and vLLM communities. The latest results were measured on SpeedBench-Coding 8K Throughput with AIPerf, and the results are as follows. Starting with Llama.cpp, NVIDIA RTX platforms such as the GeForce RTX 5090 now offer up to a 50% boost in Token throughput (tok/s) […]

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There has been much consternation in the United States over the past few weeks around the supposed proliferation of open-weight AI models from China. Even so, DeepSeek's newly instituted peak-hour pricing mechanism belies those fears, and suggests that most of its users still reside in Asia. While this paradigm is also likely to hold true for some of China's other high-flying AI models, such as Alibaba's Qwen series of LLMs, the sheer scale of oncoming demand is truly a marvel to behold, with Qwen models alone occupying a download footprint on Hugging Face that is 2.6x that of Meta's! DeepSeek's […]

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Time Magazine is apparently testing out a way to game the bots that make up the majority of traffic on the internet.  The Register spotted a post by a German software developer…

It's a bit of a challenge to write about the behaviour of LLM's without anthropomorphizing them; humans habitually assign agency to just about anything they interact with.  GPT-5.6 Sol did not actually…

A Google DeepMind paper titled “LLMs can’t jump,” published by Tom Zahavy, discusses an obvious truth that AI software lacks a physical body, which, as a limitation, introduces a cognitive barrier. The paper also states that Large Language Models cannot replace human beings and their creative genius, with software-based intelligence only mastering one distinct type of inference. The paper dives deep into LLMs’ limitations, saying that out of three unique inference types, AI has only succeeded in one area The research states that the three types of inference are induction, deduction, and abduction. Thanks to statistical pattern recognition and massive […]

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Anthropic would have you believe that the power of Claude Mythos and Project Glasswing have to detect unpatched vulnerabilities is so great that it should never be made publicly available.  They have…

Microsoft have done a yeoman's job with Windows Defender, going from a deservedly ridiculed attempt at malware protection to putting a serious dent in third party competition because of how effective it…

NVIDIA Blackwell GPUs continue to see massive optimizations, leading to a 5x drop in token cost in DeepSeek v4 AI models. NVIDIA Cost Per Token Narrative Sees Massive Gain In DeepSeek V4 As AI Model Sees 5x Boost On Blackwell GPUs With Continued Optimizations "Cost Per Token" is the fundamental metric for AI TCO, as NVIDIA highlighted this a few months back, and now, the company is delivering the lowest-ever token cost in DeepSeek v4. Today, NVIDIA announced that its full-stack inference software has brought further optimizations to its hardware stack, such as Blackwell GB200 & GB300, improving their performance […]

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The majority of attacks against LLMs come from text based prompts that will cause the agent to 'jump the rails' and start providing responses it shouldn't.  An older example of this was…

OpenAI has just announced its first custom chip called Jalapeño, which is aimed at AI Inference workloads & produced by Broadcom. OpenAI Designed & Built Its First Custom AI Silicon, The Jalapeño Chip, For Agentic AI Today, OpenAI announced that it has built and designed its first AI chip, which they are calling Jalapeño. Interesting choice of name for a chip that came fresh off the baking ovens at Broadcom, who are responsible for producing this chip. The Jalapeño Intelligence Processor and its first wafer were shown off by OpenAI's CEO, Sam Altman, and Broadcom's CEO, Hock Tan. This chip […]

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Epic's recent announcement that Unreal Engine 5.8, and even more so the upcoming Unreal Engine 6, include integration with Claude and Gemini (as well as support for custom models) to "greatly reduce the tedious work in authoring content to leave more time for creative exploration, and increase the amount of iterations a team can make to polish their content" was predictably met with skepticism from the anti-AI crowd. Still, that's not a universal reaction. Other veteran developers, such as Rich Vogel (whom I interviewed a few months ago on the state of the MMO genre), are far more pragmatic and […]

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During the State of Unreal 2026 presentation, streamed live from Chicago's Unreal Fest, Epic Games announced the launch of Unreal Engine 5.8 and also talked in depth about the upcoming Unreal Engine 6, first teased last month during the Rocket League Championship Series 2026 in Paris. Founder, CEO, and majority shareholder Tim Sweeney took the stage to explain that UE6 is about evolving how games are shipped and operated, not just improving rendering or world-building: The vision is that if you build things once in Unreal Engine 6, then you can have a game you can ship everywhere, including the […]

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Although CES 2026 was a massive disappointment for consumers, Computex 2026 looks to inject some much-needed excitement back into the beleaguered tech space. In what is arguably the biggest consumer hardware launch of the year, Nvidia and ARM have already started teasing their highly anticipated N1X laptop chip, an APU based on the same GB10 chip used in the DGX Spark. Now, as Jensen prepares to take the stage at Computex next week, let's take a look at what Nvidia has planned for the show. Nvidia's Laptop Chip Finally Launches, Packing 20 CPU Cores With An RTX 5070 Equivalent GPU […]

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Micron has started to ship its fastest DDR5 RDIMM memory modules, which feature 256 GB capacities & up to 9200 MT/s speeds. Micron Offers 40% Boost Vs Current "In-Volume" DDR5 RDIMM Memory Modules, Brings 256 GB Capacities With 9200 MT/s Speeds As Agentic AI requirements grow, memory makers are rolling out faster and higher-capacity memory kits to meet the demands of AI firms. JEDEC is also pushing the DDR5 MRDIMM standard up to 12,800 MT/s, and today, Micron has announced that it is sampling its 256 GB DDR5 RDIMM modules with up to 9200 MT/s speeds. The main highlights include: […]

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QNAP has introduced its new AI NAS, which packs a 16-Core AMD EPYC "Zen 2" CPU & can be paired with up to an RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell GPU. Old Meets New In QNAP's "QAI-h1290FX" AI NAS: 16 Zen 2 Cores & 96 GB RTX PRO 6000 GPU The "QAI-h1290FX" is QNAP's latest Edge AI offering that combines two distinct hardware components. But before we get into the details, it should be mentioned that QNAP's latest AI NAS is designed for LLM, RAG, and various GenAI applications. Two components power the server, the first is the AMD EPYC 7302P CPU, […]

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Wouldn't it be nice to see memory prices fall, supply to once again exist and also see memory manufacturers hoisted by their own petard because of their greed?  That is assuming you…