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NVIDIA's RTX Spark Splits the Local-AI Hardware Decision in Two

NVIDIA's RTX Spark Splits the Local-AI Hardware Decision in Two

NVIDIA used Computex 2026 to push its own silicon into mainstream PCs with RTX Spark, a Windows platform pairing CUDA with up to 128GB of unified memory. The launch sharpens a local-AI buying decision that has turned conditional: fast discrete VRAM when the model fits, large unified memory when it does not, and sometimes neither. We work through what an ambitious individual and a small startup should actually buy in 2026, and where the spending stops paying off.

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A Raspberry Pi Is the Durable Way to Run OpenClaw as Labs Narrow Model Access
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A Raspberry Pi Is the Durable Way to Run OpenClaw as Labs Narrow Model Access

OpenClaw's creator just joined OpenAI, the project is moving to a foundation, and the big labs are quietly narrowing the model access it depends on. The most control-preserving way to run a personal AI assistant in 2026 is a Raspberry Pi that costs about $100 and a few watts. The catch: the Pi only runs the gateway, the intelligence stays rented, and the security liability that used to be the vendor's now sits on your shelf.

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Repo Radar: 5 GitHub Projects Worth Your Week
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Repo Radar: 5 GitHub Projects Worth Your Week

Agent skills and plugins went official at Anthropic, OpenAI, and Cursor this week, so Repo Radar looks one layer down and one layer up. antirez's DwarfStar runs DeepSeek V4 locally in C. Honcho gives agents reasoning-based memory. LiteParse parses PDFs with no cloud calls. Perplexity's bumblebee scans developer laptops for poisoned packages after this week's GitHub supply-chain attacks. Stop Slop strips AI tells out of prose before you ship it.

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Tmux Keeps AI Coding Agents Running for Days After You Disconnect
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Tmux Keeps AI Coding Agents Running for Days After You Disconnect

Tmux, the terminal multiplexer Nicholas Marriott released in 2007, has become the layer that keeps AI coding agents running across disconnects. Developers start Claude Code or Codex CLI inside a tmux session on a remote server, then reconnect from any machine while the work continues. This guide covers how tmux sessions, windows, and panes work, how to set it up for agents, how it compares with cmux, Termdock, Zellij, and GNU Screen, and what it costs.

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Hermes Agent Installs in One Command. The Hard Part Is Deciding What It Can Touch.

Hermes Agent is not another chatbot wrapper. It is a server-side personal agent with memory, skills, tools, cron jobs, and chat channels. Here is how it works, what hardware it needs, where OpenClaw differs, and how to test it without over-permissioning it.

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Four GitHub Tools That Stop Claude, Codex, and Gemini From Shipping Bad Code

Four open-source tools fix four different failure modes in terminal AI. Superpowers teaches the agent how to work. Context7 feeds it current docs. Serena gives it IDE-grade code navigation. ccusage tells you what the other three cost. Here is how to install them and the commands that actually matter

Anthropic Beats OpenAI to a Confidential IPO Filing at $965 Billion
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Anthropic Beats OpenAI to a Confidential IPO Filing at $965 Billion

Anthropic beat OpenAI to a confidential IPO filing on Monday at a $965 billion valuation. But that lead rests on self-reported revenue and a rival figure dated to March, and a single SpaceX compute deal commits close to a full year of it. The real test arrives with the public S-1 this fall.

Anthropic filed confidentially for an IPO on Monday, beating OpenAI to the SEC and claiming the lead in a fall race that could mint two trillion-dollar AI stocks. Its $965 billion valuation tops OpenAI's, and its revenue run-rate has hit $47 billion. But those figures are self-reported, the accounting is unclear, and a single compute deal already commits close to a full year of that revenue. What the public S-1 reveals this fall is the test that filing first can't pass.

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