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OpenAI releases GPT-6 Astra, built for computer use, coding and security work
A new generation, in OpenAI's words, aimed at agents that operate computers.
Ars TechnicaNvidia buys Hugging Face for $13 billion and says it will stay open
Nvidia's free PAIR turns the idle computers in your office into one local AI setup
The Verge· 3 SepNvidia released PAIR, free open-source software that links the computers on your network and shares local AI work across them when they are idle. It works with Ollama and LM Studio on recent Nvidia GPUs and Apple M4 Macs. For data that cannot leave the building, it is a cheap route to private AI. It is a beta.
- Count the machines in your office with a recent GPU or an M4 Mac. That is your private AI capacity.
- Install PAIR and Ollama on two of them and run a summarisation job on a real document.
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GoogleGoogle's WeatherNext 3 puts hourly AI forecasts into Search, Gemini and Maps
TechCrunchGmail, Docs and Keep get a voice assistant that searches and drafts for you
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