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Worried about AI pricing model costs rising out of your budget? Curious whether there’s a way to run capable AI models without paying premium subscription fees every month? In this article, you’ll discover how open-weight AI models work, what hardware and software are needed to run them locally, and how to choose the right model […]

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A humanoid robot named Sally was due to take a seat in a Western New York high-school classroom this autumn, silicone skin, long brown hair, and all. Instead she is on hold. A plan that had quietly cleared the Salamanca school board back in June turned, over the following weeks, into a public fight over […]

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John Ternus has spent 24 years engineering Apple’s hardware, and when he takes over as chief executive on 1 September, he inherits a company defined by iPhones and silicon rather than prestige television. Yet one of the first things Apple’s incoming boss chose to talk about in public was neither. Speaking to reporters at the […]

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The state-owned company at the centre of China’s newest chipmaking push finally has a name. Reuters reported on Tuesday that Shanghai Aishengna Electronic Technology Group, a little-known state-owned group, is leading the effort to mass-produce domestically developed immersion deep-ultraviolet (DUV) lithography machines, according to a person familiar with the matter who declined to be identified […]

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When new creation technologies arrive, they make the best a little worse and the bad a lot better.

Desktop publishing made every local garage sale sign a lot more legible, but can’t quite replace the hand-kerned and tweaked typography of the era before.

A smartphone in your pocket takes far better video of the family cookout than a super 8 camera ever could, but it’s no match for Hitchcock shooting in 35mm.

Autotune makes an average singer much better, but a world fueled by autotune might not have room for Tom Waits.

Of course, all of this matters more than ever, because AI is the great smush.

Most forms of human expression are smushed by a decent AI. None of it is as good as genius-level human work, and much of it is better than what was average a generation ago.

The smush creates volume, volume that often redefines our understanding of quality. And that volume establishes a new standard, until it gets smushed again.

You would think that the smush creates more demand for distinctive, handmade, human work. And that’s true–remarkable works of genius and originality have a chance to do better than ever. But the smush harms the market for pretty-good or even very-good human work. Because there’s less of that, less genius slips in as well.

Avoiding the tools is optional. Pushing harder than ever for the top tier isn’t.

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Fareed Zakaria opened with the question everyone is circling. Are we in an AI bubble, and has it begun to deflate? OpenAI has promised to spend hundreds of billions while making a fraction of that, he noted. The maths does not add up. Nadella did not push back. He reframed the question as a test […]

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Sam Altman has a preferred way of framing the contest over artificial intelligence, and it is a stark one. Either the United States and its allies build the technology and spread its benefits, the OpenAI chief has argued, or authoritarian governments use it to cement and expand their own power. That binary, set out most […]

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Roughly 750,000 words of AI output costs $50 if you buy it from Anthropic’s Fable. The same volume from DeepSeek’s V4-Pro costs about 87 cents, Fortune reported. Z.AI’s GLM-5.2 charges $4.40. Moonshot’s Kimi K3, pricey by Chinese standards, charges $15. Corporate America has noticed. Companies spent a year competing to burn tokens. Now they shop […]

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China has a new most valuable listed company, and it makes the chips inside your phone. CXMT, formerly ChangXin Memory Technologies, closed its Shanghai debut up 466% on Monday, the South China Morning Post reported. That values the Hefei firm at 3.28 trillion yuan, or about $485bn. The numbers are hard to overstate. CXMT priced […]

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