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Hardware · ExplainerMac Studio M5 Ultra 512GB: reported at $22,299, with 1.2TB/s of bandwidth, and which of the biggest open models actually fitThe Mac Studio M5 Ultra with 512GB of unified memory went on sale on October 28, 2026, at $22,299 according to MacRumors and Cult of Mac. What 512GB and 1.2TB/s mean for running the biggest open models locally: Reflection Beam fits at 4-bit, DeepSeek V4.1 Flash barely does, and Kimi K3.1 needs several machines.Oct 29·8 min read

Hardware · ExplainerM6 MacBook Pro for AI: what the Dual 16-core Neural Engine, 32GB memory ceiling and 170GB/s bandwidth mean for running local modelsOct 29·8 min read

Hardware · NewsUnitree H2-X 'Guardian' humanoid: what the kung fu demo shows, and what Unitree hasn't said about price, specs or salesOct 27·5 min read

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Hardware · NewsGM eyes-off driving: Escalade IQ first in 2028, then gas pickups and full-size SUVs, with no price or date for the trucksGM eyes-off driving will debut on highways in the Cadillac Escalade IQ in 2028, and on October 21, 2026 GM said it will extend it to gas-powered full-size SUVs and light-duty pickups. Which models, which roads, how it differs from hands-free Super Cruise, and what it costs.Oct 27·5 min read

Hardware · NewsLenovo AI Host P7: what's confirmed about the 300-gram box said to run 125B-parameter models locallyLenovo unveiled the AI Host P7 in Beijing on May 19, 2026 and showed a preview edition in China on October 24: a palm-sized box with a Cixin P1 chip and a Houmo M50 accelerator that Chinese reports say runs models of up to 125 billion parameters locally. There's no price or release date, and the specs come from chip partners and reports, not a Lenovo spec page.Oct 27·6 min read

Hardware · NewsUnitree Go2 vulnerability CVE-2026-115995: a critical flaw in the robot dog's AI chat module, which firmware is affected, and the 1.1.11.5 fixThe Unitree Go2 vulnerability CVE-2026-115995, published October 24, 2026, is a command injection flaw in the robot dog's AI voice-chat service, rated critical. The CVE record lists Go2 firmware 1.1.11.0 to 1.1.11.4 as affected and 1.1.11.5 as fixed. What's known, what isn't, and what owners can check.Oct 26·5 min read

Hardware · NewsHow Cerebras says it serves trillion-parameter models: 59 wafers for Kimi K3, pipelined layer by layerHow Cerebras serves trillion-parameter models, per its October 22, 2026 engineering post: Kimi K3's layers are split across 59 WSE-3T wafers with 44 GB of on-chip memory each, run as a pipeline, with a target of 1,000 to 2,000+ tokens per second. All figures are vendor-reported.Oct 26·4 min read

Hardware · NewsHugging Face's Microduck robot reaches 20,000 preorders: price, specs and what it doesHugging Face's Microduck robot passed 20,000 preorders after Jensen Huang's GTC Berlin demo, CEO Clem Delangue said, according to TechCrunch. The $399 biped from Pollen Robotics ships from before Christmas 2026 with Apache 2.0 software but closed hardware designs.Oct 26·5 min read

Hardware · News63% of US voters oppose a data center within 10 miles: what the CNBC poll found, and data centers in the 2026 midtermsA data center poll for CNBC found 63% of US voters oppose an AI data center within 10 miles of home, CNBC reported on October 24, 2026. What the survey found by party, how it compares with Gallup, Pew and Heatmap polls, and where data centers show up in the 2026 midterms.Oct 26·5 min read

Hardware · NewsPC shipments fall about 21% in Q3 2026 as AI demand squeezes memory supply: what IDC, Gartner, Omdia and Counterpoint reportQ3 2026 PC shipments fell between 20.1% and 22.4% year over year, depending on the analyst firm, as memory makers steered capacity to AI servers and DRAM prices climbed. Each firm's numbers, kept separate, and what TrendForce says about memory prices.Oct 26·5 min read

Hardware · NewsGoogle's Finland data center forest clearing: what's confirmed about the hectares, the 250,000 trees and the 'illegal' claimGoogle's Finland data center sites in Muhos and Kajaani were cleared of hundreds of hectares of forest before environmental assessments were done. Finland's regulator ordered work halted on October 6, 2026, and police have three investigation requests, but no authority has found the clearing illegal.Oct 26·6 min read

Hardware · NewsAgility Robotics standardizes Digit 5 on Nvidia IGX Thor: what changes, when the humanoid ships, and why safety certification mattersOn October 22, 2026, Agility Robotics said Nvidia's IGX Thor will be the only onboard computer in the general-availability Digit 5 humanoid, and that Digit will go through Nvidia's safety inspection lab before third-party certification. Early access is due in the first half of 2027.Oct 24·5 min read

Hardware · ExplainerUnitree G1 price, units and specs: what the 'best-selling' humanoid robot costs and can doThe Unitree G1 price starts at $13,500 before tax and shipping, and on October 22, 2026 founder Wang Xingxing said 10,000 to 20,000 have rolled off the production line since May 2024. That's a production figure, not sales. Specs, limits, security history and how the 'best-seller' claim compares with industry data.Oct 24·6 min read

Hardware · NewsNvidia DSX POD and the supply-chain capacity deal: containerized Vera Rubin AI factories, 2.5x substrates and 15x opticsNvidia DSX POD, announced at GTC Berlin on October 21, 2026, is a reference design for Vera Rubin AI factories built in containers, which Nvidia says can be deployed in as little as 14 days at a prepared site. The same day, Nvidia named six suppliers expanding substrate, packaging, testing and optics capacity. What was announced, and what rests on Nvidia's word.Oct 24·5 min read

Hardware · ExplainerUpcoming AI glasses: what Apple, Meta, Google, Samsung and Snap have announced or are reported to plan (October 2026)The upcoming AI glasses worth knowing about, sorted by evidence: what Meta sells today and at what price, what Google, Samsung and Snap have announced for fall 2026, and what Bloomberg reports about Apple's glasses, which Apple hasn't announced.Oct 20·7 min read

Hardware · NewsOpenAI humanoid robot: what Sam Altman has actually said about the 2027 demo, and what's still unknownIs OpenAI building a humanoid robot? Sam Altman has said yes, twice, in September 2026: "We will definitely do a humanoid," and "I think we'll have a cool demo in 2027." OpenAI hasn't published a robot, a spec, a partner or a date. Here's what's confirmed, what's reported and what's still unknown.Oct 20·5 min read

Hardware · NewsMeta's Prometheus supercluster: what Meta says about its 1 million GPU target, networking, cooling and HyperionOn October 19, 2026, Meta published the most detailed description yet of Prometheus, its gigawatt-scale AI supercluster in New Albany, Ohio. The first phase is complete and trained the Muse models, and Meta says it is working toward roughly 1 million GPUs spread across several buildings. Here's what Meta disclosed and what it left out.Oct 20·5 min read

Hardware · NewsIntel GPU D270: Intel's inference GPU trades HBM for up to 480 GB of LPDDR5XAt the OCP Global Summit on October 12, 2026, Intel named its Crescent Island accelerator the GPU D270: an air-cooled 350 W PCIe card with 1.3 petaflops of FP8, 160 GB of LPDDR5X on Intel's own card and up to 480 GB on partner cards. Customer sampling has started; Intel hasn't given a launch date.Oct 14·4 min read

Hardware · NewsMicrosoft Maia 300 AI chip: 288 GB of HBM4, 2nm compute and a 40% tokens-per-megawatt claimOn October 12, 2026, Microsoft unveiled Maia 300, its third in-house AI accelerator, built for inference and due in multi-gigawatt Azure deployments from 2027. The specs, the efficiency claim, and what's still unverified.Oct 13·5 min read

Hardware · NewsAMD Helion: an open rack design for agentic AI with up to 32,768 Zen 6 coresAMD introduced Helion on October 12, 2026, an OCP-based rack blueprint that fills a rack with EPYC 'Venice' CPUs to run AI agents, or mixes in up to 16 Instinct MI350P GPUs. What's in it, who's building it, and when it ships.Oct 13·5 min read

Hardware · NewsGoogle Fitbit Edge: $179.99 tracker with a screen, GPS and a replaceable battery ships October 27Google announced the Fitbit Edge on October 12, 2026: a $179.99 tracker with a larger OLED screen, built-in GPS, ECG, up to seven days of battery and a battery you can replace. Its Gemini-powered Health Coach needs a Google Health Premium subscription.Oct 13·5 min read

Hardware · NewsFrench supermarket cyberattack: hackers heated fridges at hundreds of stores via outdated Danfoss controllersOvernight on October 11–12, 2026, attackers pushed refrigeration at hundreds of French supermarkets, including Intermarché, Netto, Coopérative U and E.Leclerc stores, up to 50°C. What's confirmed, what Danfoss says, and what's still unknown.Oct 13·5 min read

Hardware · NewsNvidia's Vera Rubin reaches customer production as AMD buys an AI labCoreWeave says Cognition is the first customer running production work on Vera Rubin NVL72. Two days earlier, AMD agreed to buy World Labs for about $8.2 billion in stock.Oct 9·4 min read

Hardware · AnalysisThe gigawatt datacenter race: what's announced, what's running, and what's holding it backAI labs and clouds have announced tens of gigawatts of compute. Primary sources show far less of it running. A sourced table and an honest look at the limits.Oct 9·8 min read

Hardware · ExplainerWhat an NPU actually does, and why the TOPS number on your laptop matters less than you thinkCopilot+ PCs need a 40-TOPS 'AI engine'. Here's what that chip accelerates, which apps really use it, and why tools like Ollama mostly ignore it.Oct 9·7 min read

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