NVIDIA’s RTX Spark looks like a PC chip, but it’s built like a smartphone
The chip is set to debut in a wave of premium Windows laptops later this year, with early designs announced from Microsoft Surface, ASUS, Dell, HP, Lenovo, and MSI. RTX…
Nvidia announces the RTX Spark, an Arm-based consumer PC chip family that it says is “the most efficient PC chip ever built”, made in partnership with MediaTek (Sean Hollister/The Verge)
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Flipper unveils a Linux-powered networking gadget built for hackers and tinkerers
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Cohere releases Command A+, a sparse MoE open model built for agentic tasks, with 218B total and 25B active parameters, its first under the Apache 2.0 license (Carl Franzen/VentureBeat)
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Medicare’s new payment model is built for AI, and most of the tech world has no idea
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CAS Cold Atom Technology has built the 200-qubit Hanyuan-2, the world’s first dual-core quantum computer, with a core for error correction (Luke James/Tom’s Hardware)
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