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An AI agent in a security badge? That’s Microsoft’s Project Solara pitch

AI agents will soon be everywhere, we’re told, but where exactly? Clearly they’re in the cloud, on our desktop PCs, and even on our phones, but they could also live on other devices, like smart speakers, glasses, and perhaps, even a smart security badge. That’s the idea behind Project Solara, Microsoft’s new platform for putting AI agents in a wide range of devices beyond the standard form…
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Intel and Phison want to solve local AI’s biggest limitation

Not everyone wants to run local AI on their own PCs. But if you do, there’s a major problem. Most sophisticated models can’t fit inside the limitations of your PC’s memory and storage. Phison and Intel are working on a solution. Using Phison’s aiDAPTIV solution, a 26 billion parameter AI model can be run on a laptop with 16GB of RAM, versus the 32GB of RAM it would normally require. That…
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AMD brought the Ryzen 7 5800X3D back because AM4 refuses to die

In a Nutshell AMD reissues the Ryzen 7 5800X3D as a $349 “10th Anniversary Edition” for AM4 on June 25. It also launches the Ryzen 7 7700X3D (8c/16t, 4.5GHz, 120W) at $329 on July 16. AMD globally releases the Radeon RX 9070 GRE (12GB) at $549 on June 1. Summary created by Smart Answers AI In summary: AMD is re-releasing the popular Ryzen 7 5800X3D as a ’10th Anniversary Edition’ for…
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Microsoft is putting Copilot on a productivity leash

Google made headlines a short time ago for a plan to expand its Gemini prompt box as it combines AI and search. Microsoft is taking a different tack: it’s also dynamically expanding its prompt box, but with an eye towards improving its productivity apps instead. Right now, Microsoft’s efforts are traversing the outer reaches of its productivity solar system, being tested internally with a few…
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