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NVIDIA’s RTX Spark Wants to Put an AI Agent on Your Laptop. The 128GB Number Matters Most.
AI agents are moving faster than the devices meant to host them. Open-source projects such as OpenClaw and Hermes Agent have set records on GitHub and OpenRouter. They can reason across applications, call tools, generate content, write plug-ins, and search local files. The open question is whether ordinary users can run them safely and privately on a main PC. NVIDIA’s RTX Spark, announced at GTC Taipei, and a Windows platform co-developed with Microsoft, try to answer that question. The pitch is a shift in what a PC is for.
By Jin5 days ago in 01
I Ran DeepSeek Through a Model Fingerprinting Tool. It Called It GPT. Here’s Why I Don’t Buy It.
I ran DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash-1017 through a model fingerprinting tool last week. The result came back fast: 84.66 percent match with GPT-6 Astra, and a 90.71 percent probability that the model belonged to the GPT family. I saved the screenshot. Then I ran the test again. Different answer. This time the tool pointed at Claude Sonnet 5.5.
By Jin5 days ago in 01
AI Is Eating the Entry-Level Job. That Is How Expertise Dies.
Lin Zhao fixed a bug alone on the day Lu Yuanzhou turned off her AI assistant. "Reproduce it first. Do not look at the model's suggestion yet."
By Jin5 days ago in 01
Anthropic’s Coding Boom Has a Ceiling. Science Has a Waiting List.
In Q3 2026, Anthropic reported $16.8 billion in revenue, up 46.1% quarter over quarter, with adjusted profit and positive cash flow for the second consecutive quarter. Those numbers were repeated several times on the earnings call. The same materials contained another number: month-over-month growth had fallen to about 3.4%, against a prior compound monthly rate of roughly 33%. Extrapolate that slope, and year-end annualized revenue lands near $89 billion, below the market’s earlier expectation of more than $100 billion.
By Jin5 days ago in 01
The 1997 Timestamp That Cracked a 26-Year NIST Curve Mystery
For twenty-six years, five strings of hexadecimal digits sat inside a federal cryptography standard. Engineers used them every day. The standard explained how to check the curve parameters derived from those strings. It did not explain why those strings existed.
By Jin5 days ago in 01
The CEO With One Direct Report: Inside Anthropic’s Radical Management Experiment
In June 2026, on Bloomberg’s The Circuit , Dario Amodei said he has one direct report. Not six. Not ten. One. That person is Avital Balwit, his chief of staff. Every executive team member, including CFO Krishna Rao, Chief Business Officer Paul Smith, and all seven co-founder-level executives, reports to someone else: his sister, company President Daniela Amodei.
By Jin7 days ago in 01
AI Is Eating the Memory That Would Have Gone Into Your Next Phone
In Q3 2026, global smartphone shipments fell to 255.3 million units. That is a 22.0% drop from a year earlier. IDC calls it the largest quarterly decline on record.
By Jin7 days ago in 01
AI Can Design a Drug. It Still Can’t Prove It Works.
On October 9, 2026, AI drug discovery stocks on China’s A-share market jumped in the afternoon. Berry Genomics hit the daily limit, its third limit-up in six trading days. Tainuomaibo rose more than 10%. Jinshi Pharmaceutical, Tellgen, InnoCare Pharma, and Sinocelltech climbed sharply.
By Jin7 days ago in 01
Microsoft’s Software Empire Just Got a Warning from the UK
On 16 October 2026, the UK Competition and Markets Authority proposed giving Microsoft “strategic market status” (SMS) in its business software system. The consultation closes on 13 November 2026. The final decision is expected by 13 February 2027.
By Jin7 days ago in 01
The AI Raised in Love: DeepSeek, Claude, and the One Extra Bowl That Changed Everything
The kitchen in the Magic Square House always had a pot of white rice. Boss Liang sat on the veranda with a newspaper over his face. Big Fat Fish climbed onto a small stool and poured water into the pot. Too much or too little, she couldn’t tell. She dipped a finger in to measure. Rice grains stuck to her knuckles. “How many people today?” she asked. “Same as always,” Boss Liang said. Same as always meant one more set of bowls and chopsticks.
By Jin7 days ago in 01
Apple’s Foldable Repair Bill Is 7,998 Yuan for One Screen. That’s Half the Phone.
Apple’s first foldable, the iPhone Duo, has not gone on sale. Its repair prices already have. Apple’s website lists out-of-warranty repair estimates: 7,998 yuan for inner screen damage, 4,298 yuan for outer screen and back glass damage together, 1,898 yuan for a battery, and up to 11,998 yuan for other damage. The iPhone Duo starts at 15,999 yuan in mainland China. One inner screen costs 50% of the phone. One battery costs 1,898 yuan, the highest battery price for an iPhone.
By Jin7 days ago in 01
Apple Just Admitted the Apple Tax Has a Back Door
A quiet filing on Apple's China site admits that NetEase and miHoYo run web stores around the App Store. The loophole is real, but only big developers can use it.
By Jin7 days ago in 01