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A film poster: a Chinese tech superpower building its own AI grid without American hardware.
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China is betting 2 trillion yuan on AI without Nvidia. Will it build its own world?

China is preparing a five-year plan worth 2 trillion yuan (~$295bn) to build a national AI grid that runs 80% on domestic Huawei chips. What does it mean for the models you use?

6 min read
A cold-war style film poster: two AI superpowers facing off with Europe caught in the middle.
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America just pulled Claude Fable 5 for all foreigners. Has the hybrid AI war begun?

On 12 June 2026 the US government ordered Anthropic to disable Claude Fable 5 and Mythos 5 for all foreign nationals. What does it mean for Europe and what can you do about it?

5 min read
A glowing processor on a desk in a night-time office, with green light trails of computation around it. Dark scene with an emerald accent.
RTX Spark
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Can NVIDIA Spark take on Apple's M5? The new AI chip brings petaflop power straight to a laptop

NVIDIA has shown off RTX Spark, the laptop version of its Grace Blackwell chip. It promises up to a petaflop of AI performance and 128 GB of shared memory. Here is what it does and how Apple's M5 Max stacks up.

4 min read
A glowing brain hidden in a half-open desk drawer in a night-time home office, with corporate skyscrapers looming in the background. Dark blue scene with a coral accent.
Odysseus
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Did PewDiePie just declare war on Big Tech? His AI, Odysseus, keeps your data at home

Streamer PewDiePie has released Odysseus, an open-source AI workspace that runs entirely on your own computer. No subscription, no tracking, all your data stays on your disk.

4 min read
Atmospheric home AI workstation with a multi-GPU rig on a wooden desk in a warmly lit modern studio
Qwen 3.6
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Is Qwen 3.6 the best AI model you can run at home?

Alibaba has released an open-weight model that matches Claude Opus 4.7 in some coding tests and fits on a single 24 GB GPU. What does that mean for companies and developers?

7 min read