Is the Desktop PC on the Brink of Extinction?
I recently talked to several friends who work for major desktop PC component companies. Different companies. Different jobs. Different parts of…
Tag: AI
Zuckerberg’s AI Manifesto: The Decentralization of Superintelligence
For most of the AI era, the loudest questions have been about intelligence. How smart will AI become? Will it surpass…
CXMT Explained: Can China Break the Global Memory Monopoly?
When you buy a Corsair, Kingston, G.Skill, or TeamGroup memory kit, you probably assume the company printed on the heat…
Unified Memory Explained: Why AI Is Changing How Computer Memory Works
For a long time, buying computer memory was relatively simple. You needed enough RAM to keep Windows, your browser and…
OpenAI’s AI Hacked Hugging Face but Nobody Told It To
OpenAI has disclosed what it describes as an “unprecedented cyber incident”: during an internal security evaluation, a combination of its…
NVIDIA RTX Spark Wants to Be Your GPU, CPU and Coworker
For most of its history, NVIDIA has been an extremely successful tenant inside the personal computer. Intel or AMD owned…
OpenAI’s First Branded Hardware Is a $230 RGB Macropad for Bossing Around Codex Agents
OpenAI’s first step into branded hardware is not a robot, a wearable, or the mysterious screenless AI companion everyone keeps…
Bad Benchmarks, Big Demand: How Lisuan Tech Sold 30,000 GPUs Anyway
You would think a new graphics card needs killer benchmarks to make a splash. Apparently not. Chinese GPU startup Lisuan Tech has…
AI-Generated Video Sounds Efficient. Reality Is More Expensive
When companies like iQiyi talk about using AI to produce the majority of their content within the next five years,…
From Prompt to Execution: What GPT-5.5 Actually Does in Real Workflows
For years, we’ve been arguing about how smart AI is. Wrong debate. The real question was always: Can it actually do the…
AMD’s 3D V-Cache Just Found a New Party Trick: Supercharging Local RAG AI
AMD’s X3D chips have spent the last few years building a reputation as the go-to CPUs for gaming. More cache,…
State of the Global Workplace 2026: The AI Paradox
Here’s the thing about the future of work: we were promised robots would take over the boring stuff so we…
80,000 Tech Layoffs, One Question: Is AI the Cause or the Excuse?
The tech industry’s favorite two-word explanation in 2026 might be “because AI.” Convenient, neat, investor-friendly — and maybe a little…
OpenAI Kills Sora, Exposing the Weak Economics of AI Video
For a while, Sora was treated like the future of internet video. Depending on who you asked, it was either…
OpenClaw Explained: The Open-Source AI Agent
AI launches have started to blur together. Another chatbot. Another copilot. Another “this changes everything” press release written by a…
AI and Humans: The Third Relationship
We are starting to do something humans have never done before. Not in a dramatic, science-fiction way. In a quiet,…
Why Does AI Hallucinate? Because It Was Trained to Always Have an Answer
Ask an AI to explain photosynthesis, and it may produce a perfectly respectable answer about sunlight, carbon dioxide, and plants…
Why Many People Hate AI
It’s Not the Intelligence. It’s the Incentives. For a technology that promises progress, artificial intelligence has managed to generate an…
The AI Workplace Revolution: Adapt or Perish
Introduction Microsoft and LinkedIn’s 2024 Work Trend Index Annual Report really drives home how much AI has transformed the workplace…
Microsoft Unveils Automatic Super Resolution for Gaming: The First OS-Integrated AI-Based Solution
In a groundbreaking advancement for the gaming industry, Microsoft has introduced Automatic Super Resolution (Auto SR), the first OS-integrated AI-based…