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A Dynamic and Distributed Virtual GPU Cloud Built on Idle Apple Silicon Devices

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Apple-Forscher nutzen Apple-Silicon-Macs im Idle-Betrieb als virtuelle GPUs

Die KI sucht händeringend nach Ressourcen. Rechenzentren sind teuer und energiefressend. Helfen vielleicht Macs, die gerade im Leerlauf sind?

En Silicon Valley hay trabajadores de las grandes tecnológicas ocultando a qué se dedican para poder ligar

Durante años, el gran enemigo de los empleados solteros de Silicon Valley fue la agenda. Las largas jornadas laborales de empleados y fundadores ocupaban todo su (escaso) tiempo libre, y no dejaba ningún hueco para socializar.

Older Snapdragon 8 Elite chips could be the secret to surviving the silicon crunch

TL;DR The chip shortage has led to three generations of the Snapdragon 8 Elite in phones hitting the market. Older chips don’t necessarily mean noticeably poorer performance.

Samsung Hosts Silicon Valley Future Wireless Summit 2026

Samsung Electronics today announced that it is bringing together global telecommunications industry partners at the Samsung Research America campus in Mountain View, California for the Silicon Valley Future Wireless Summit 2026 on Oct.

Silicon Valley está abrazando el preparacionismo convencido de las catástrofes a las que nos conduce la IA

Pasamos por delante de los frigoríficos de los supermercados sin prestarles mucha atención.

Silicon Valley is falling in line with Trump’s attempt to rename AI

When President Donald Trump announced his plans to rebrand artificial intelligence as " super intelligence," you'd be forgiven for being skeptical that it would catch on.

Silicon Valley’s AI wunderkind launches Underdog, the most private Instinct/Muse competitor yet

Sigil Wen, backed by a Silicon Valley who's who, has built an on-device AI assistant that promises to be free, fully private, and capable for everyday tasks.

The logic of gambling undergirds everything coming out of Silicon Valley

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(g+) Gehirn-Computer-Schnittstelle: Was passiert, wenn KI unsere Gedanken lesen kann?

Kann KI bald Gedanken lesen? In seinem Kommentar in der Financial Times wirft John Thornhill einen Blick auf Chancen und Risiken. Unsere Leseempfehlung. Von John Thornhill (BCI, Silicon Valley)

A New Era of AI Agents Demands a New Security Model

Securing autonomous AI agents requires more than a prompt. It requires enforcement at the runtime, network and silicon layers.

All the drama around AI’s takeover of mathematics

This past year, OpenAI, Anthropic, and other labs have announced breakthroughs on numerous long-standing mathematical problems, in some cases pushing well beyond what researchers expected current systems to be capable of — including resolving one of the famous Millennium Prize…

Beam من Reflection AI.. ما قدرات نموذج الذكاء الاصطناعي مفتوح المصدر؟

أطلقت شركة Reflection AI الأميركية نموذج الذكاء الاصطناعي Beam، وهو نموذج لغوي كبير مفتوح المصدر يضم 501 مليار معلمة، بعد أشهر من جمع الشركة تمويلاً بتقييم بلغ 25 مليار دولار.وبحسب تقرير نشره موقع SiliconANGLE، أبرمت Reflection AI أيضاً، وفق تقارير، صفقة بقيمة 6.3 مليارات دولار…

Furientis lands $25M from Benchmark to mass-produce low-cost missile interceptors

The storied Silicon Valley firm makes its first pure defense investment.

Introducing the next Surface Pro 12-inch and Surface Laptop 13-inch with Snapdragon X2 Plus: Greater performance that travels light

Today at Snapdragon Summit, we introduced the next Surface Pro 12-inch and Surface Laptop 13-inch, built on the Snapdragon X2 Plus ® processor, alongside the new Surface Mouse with integrated haptic feedback 1.

Lokale KI auf dem Mac: Ollama nutzt MLX als Standard

MLX wird auf Apple-Silicon-Macs für unterstützte Modelle zum Standard. Ollama 0.40.0 lässt zudem Entscheidungs- und Embedding-Modelle über MLX laufen.

Meta launches an open-weight AI model that runs on Macs

Meta and Apple have teamed up for the launch of the social media giant's newest model, Muse Spark Open, which will run locally on Apple silicon.

Researchers cig-nal their faith in AI by taking up smoking

Silicon Valley’s AI bros have supposedly found a new way to signal to those around them how committed they are to their industry: Take up smoking despite the risk of cancer, because they expect bots to develop a cure … any day now.

Samsung Galaxy SmartTag3 Makes It Easier To Keep Track of What Matters

Samsung Electronics today announced the new Galaxy SmartTag3, a compact tracker that combines a smaller, lighter design with longer-range finding, cross-OS support, faster location updates through the Galaxy Find Network and expanded proactive alerts.

Six wild ideas for perpetuating your mind

Have you ever thought about what makes you you? Science assures us it has everything to do with the three-pound organ between our ears, with its billions of neurons and trillions of delicate connections.

The Biggest Pro-AI Super PAC Network Has Poured Millions Into Nevada Shell Companies

Backed by Silicon Valley titans, Leading the Future has raised huge sums to promote pro-AI candidates on both side of the aisle.

The Download: reviving frozen pig kidneys and boosting nuclear power

This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. Pig kidneys that were “frozen” for a year have been brought back to life

The tech backlash is now in theaters

Though movies about disruptive tech founders are nothing new, 2026 has been unusually stacked with features that take a much more critical look at how Silicon Valley is reshaping our reality.

Wegen Kritik an KI: Peter Thiel greift Obama und den Papst an

In der Kritik an KI-Technologien sieht Peter Thiel nur einen Vorwand, um Ideenlosigkeit zu überspielen und an Popularität zu gewinnen. (KI, Silicon Valley)

When one datacenter is no longer enough

Training the largest AI models is no longer simply a question of adding more GPUs.

While VCs crowd into San Francisco, Endeavor Catalyst raises $320M for founders ‘elsewhere’

Endeavor Catalyst just raised $320 million to keep backing founders outside Silicon Valley. Half the profits go back to the nonprofit that finds them.

WindBorne wins a hefty US Air Force contract for its balloon data

A Silicon Valley startup that uses weather balloons and AI to predict the weather won a U.S. military contract worth almost $50 million.

Xbox Labs: Microsoft gründet Team für Experimente mit dekompilierten Spielen

Xbox-Chefin Asha Sharma gründet ein Team für KI-Experimente. Anlass sind dekompilierte Spiele, die zuletzt im Browser und auf Apple Silicon liefen.

You can now run Googlebook OS on your Mac, unofficially of course

Credit: Richard Priday / Android Authority TL;DR A developer has released an open-source toolchain (called “gbos-vm”) that lets Apple Silicon Mac owners run Googlebook OS inside a GPU-accelerated virtual machine.

Devices · 7

Nothing Phone (3)

Nothing's first true flagship swapped the Glyph lights for a Glyph Matrix micro-LED display, added four 50MP cameras including a 3x periscope, a 5,150 mAh silicon-carbon battery with 65W charging and the Snapdragon 8s Gen 4, with five years of Android updates promised.

OnePlus OnePlus 13

The last Hasselblad-branded OnePlus flagship combined the Snapdragon 8 Elite with a 6.82-inch QHD+ LTPO display, a 6,000 mAh silicon-carbon battery with 100W charging and triple 50MP cameras with a 3x periscope, plus IP68 and IP69 ratings.

OnePlus OnePlus 15

OnePlus's performance flagship pairs the Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 with a 165Hz 1.5K LTPO display, a 7,300 mAh Silicon NanoStack battery with 120W charging (80W in North America) and a triple 50MP DetailMax camera, dropping the Hasselblad branding. US sales opened 4 December 2025.

Samsung Galaxy Z Flip8

The slimmest and lightest Flip so far at 6.1 mm open and 180 g, with a brighter 3000-nit 6.9-inch main display, the edge-to-edge 4.1-inch FlexWindow, a 4,300 mAh silicon-carbon battery and Exynos 2600 or Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 depending on region.

Samsung Galaxy Z Fold8

Samsung reshaped the standard Fold into a wider, shorter 7.6-inch 4:3 book with a 5.5-inch cover screen, a dual 50MP camera, a 4,800 mAh silicon-carbon battery and 45W charging, at 201 g the lightest Fold yet.

Samsung Galaxy Z Fold8 Ultra

Unveiled 22 July 2026, the first Ultra foldable keeps the Fold7's 8-inch book form at 4.1 mm unfolded, adds a 5,000 mAh silicon-carbon battery with 45W charging, Flex Titanium display tech, a 200MP camera and Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 for Galaxy.

Xiaomi Xiaomi 17T Pro

Xiaomi's mid-year global flagship launched 28 May 2026 with the MediaTek Dimensity 9500, a 6.83-inch 144Hz display, a Leica triple camera with a 115 mm 5x periscope and a 7,000 mAh silicon-carbon battery with 100W wired and 50W wireless HyperCharge.