XDA Developers on MSN

I turned on one Gemma 4 feature most people skip, and my local AI got 137% faster

Gemma 4 has a fast lane most people never switch to ...
XDA Developers on MSN

My laptop’s NPU sat unused for a year, and I finally found the one local AI job it’s actually good at

I've ignored the NPU in my Asus ROG Flow Z13 since the day I unboxed it, and I doubt I'm alone. Task Manager shows it ...

llama.cpp CUDA build won't finish: How specifying CMAKE_CUDA_ARCHITECTURES solved it

When I built llama.cpp from source with CUDA support, it didn't finish even after waiting 10 minutes, so I aborted it. It ...
HowToGeek on MSN

Why I'm learning to program in Vim instead of VS Code

A rough start, now turned into satisfying coding sessions.
Martin Cid Magazine

Mistral Large 4 is free to download, and it fits on one $22,299 Mac

Mistral has released the open weights of Mistral Large 4, nicknamed Le Chonk, and says no open model writes better code or ...
XDA Developers on MSN

I tested Nvidia’s Nemotron 3.5 Bolt, and it changed what I thought my 16GB GPU could do

A 16GB GPU can run agentic AI now, and it's surreal ...
Microsoft

Inside a malicious Claude Code-branded extension and its persistent SSH backdoor

Microsoft analyzes a malicious Claude Code–branded extension, its persistent SSH backdoor, and guidance to detect and ...

Anthropic VS code extension on Cursor backdoored for nearly 12 hours

An official extension for Anthropic’s Claude model was backdoored and threatened as many as 5,000 developers’ machines, multiple sources reported Friday. Anthropic so far has yet to warn customers of ...
tom's Hardware on MSN

Benchmarking Nvidia’s Vera CPU for the data center

Nvidia gave us access to its Vera data center CPU for testing against Intel's Granite Rapids-AP and AMD's EPYC Turin.

llama.cpp adds support for DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash. Pre-release available, expanding options for local execution

For those who want to run DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash on their own PC or server, here is an update to the compatible software. On ...
HackerNoon

Running NVIDIA Nemotron 3.5 Bolt E4B Without a GPU: Benchmark Results

I gave NVIDIA's new small model five tools, 60 prompts and no GPU. It picked the right tool every time, and a full spoken ...
The Official Microsoft Blog

Introducing the Microsoft Copilot harness: Unlocking the potential of truly multi-model agentic work

If you want to compete, you need to be multi-model. And if you want to take advantage of everything that different AI models have to offer, you need a great harness. But building one that works ...