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Category: Hardware
AI Agents Are Coming to Windows—Here’s How Microsoft Is Making It Happen
Human-agent collaboration is moving beyond the cloud. It’s coming to the edge. At its 2025 Build conference, Microsoft unveiled the Windows AI Foundry, a development platform that will bring model building, fine-tuning, and local deployment capabilities to Windows 11. The company also announced native support for the Model Context Protocol (MCP), a framework that allows […]
Dyna Robotics Unveils DYNA-1, a Robot Model Promising Performance Out of the Box
Amazon may be recognized as a company heavily experimenting with robots in its warehouses, but Dyna Robotics is aiming to push the entire field forward. The startup aims to deliver commercialized robots that can perform straight out of the box in any environment, producing high-quality results with exceptional throughput. Today, it takes a significant leap […]
Proto Hologram’s Holographic AI Avatars: ‘A Chatbot in a Fancy Dress, but With a Persona Presence’
I wanted to check out one company in particular while attending Amazon Web Services’ re:Invent conference. It came to my attention days prior while perusing LinkedIn, and I became curious about its technology. However, I ignored where exactly I could find it at the show. It turns out that the company, Proto Hologram, wasn’t hard […]
AMD Unveils OLMo, Its First Fully Open 1B-Parameter LLM Series
AMD has introduced OLMo, a new series of large language models it trained in-house using trillions of tokens on a cluster of its Instinct MI250 GPUs. Though its specific purpose isn’t explicitly stated, it’s believed the company created OLMo to highlight the capabilities of its Instinct GPUs in running “large-scale multi-node LM training jobs with […]
FightCamp’s New Console Hardware Lets You Box and Kick With Friends and Family
Eight years ago, Tommy Duquette sat down to tell me about a startup he was co-founding with four other people. The tech industry—and the world—was very different compared to now, but for the team behind fitness tech Hykso, their mission today remains the same: To make boxing accessible to all. Their company has since rebranded […]
Apple’s AI Strategy: Personal, Private and Made ‘for the Rest of Us’
The news AI watchers have been waiting for has arrived: Apple has revealed its technology strategy. But while its rivals have taken to the spotlight to unveil model after model and how they’re baking it into every one of their products, the iPhone maker seems to be taking a different approach, positioning it as “AI […]
Computing Overhead Could Cloud AI Startup Runway As Costs Soar
Tech industry watchers were aghast years ago as Uber, Stripe, and other startups raised billions of dollars in new investment capital. Granted that happened when these companies were established, but the amount was staggering. And we are poised to see such activity again, this time with AI startups. But the money won’t all be for […]
Samsung Shifts Gears to Embrace AI (Again), Putting Devices in the Backseat
Seven years ago, Samsung said it wanted to create “a corporate-wide AI voice system” powered by its acquisition of Viv Labs. The electronics maker had a strong foothold in the home, with many consumers owning at least a Samsung television, audio player, refrigerator, oven, or washer and dryer. A key component to its execution lay […]