Mainbrella open-sourced its backend, letting anyone fork the service and run Linux workspaces for AI agents locally on a Mac Studio via OrbStack and Cloudflare's Wrangler, with the company betting tha…
A developer chose the open-weight Laya typed-decision model over TypeSafe's hosted Jev for routine agent decisions because Laya runs locally on a Mac Studio with no per-token bill, while Jev is an ear…
Apple will begin shipping upgraded Mac Minis and Mac Studios on Tuesday, September 22, pitching machines that can cost nearly US$20,000 as a cheaper alternative to renting cloud AI compute, according …
Apple's 2026 Mac Studio ships with M5 Max or M5 Ultra chips offering up to a 36-core CPU and 80-core GPU, delivering up to 4.3x faster local AI performance than previous generations, according to an e…
Apple's new Mac Studio with the M5 Ultra chip begins shipping today, and in benchmark testing it posted a Geekbench 6 CPU multi-core score of 37,870 and a Metal GPU score of 233,865, beating the M3 Ul…
A leaked Geekbench 7 GPU benchmark shows Apple's M5 Ultra scoring 360,019 points, roughly 41% faster on average than the M3 Ultra's 255,009 points, according to Geekbench browser results. The M5 Ultra…
Apple is considering re-entering the server market with a product that may not debut until 2029 and could pair its ARM-based M-series chips with Nvidia's NVLink Fusion interconnect technology, accordi…
Apple is reportedly developing AI-focused M-series server chips that could use NVIDIA's NVLink Fusion interconnect technology, including NVLink for socket-to-socket communication between two or four M…
A calculator built by Sunk Cost estimates that a $3,499 Apple M5 Max Mac Studio with 64 GB of unified memory running Alibaba's quantized Qwen3.8 27B model would need 44 years to break even against hos…
Alvin Graylin, a technologist who has worked in AI on both sides of the Pacific since the early 1990s, argues the US-China AI arms race is largely a myth used to justify bad policy and overspending, p…
Apple's $899 M6 Mac mini caps at 32GB of memory and 153 to 170 GB/s of bandwidth with no Thunderbolt 5, making it a poor local-LLM machine compared with the $1,699 M5 Pro Mac mini, which offers 307 GB…
Apple Inc. is set to debut its 2nm M6 chip and a quad-die variant in updated Mac mini and Mac Studio desktops this September, a move that resets the AI race by delivering significant performance gains…
Lenovo has introduced the Yoga Pro 9n laptop, which can run a 120-billion parameter AI model locally with a 1-million token context window, powered by NVIDIA's RTX Spark chip featuring a 20-core Grace…
Apple's M5 Max Mac Studio with 128GB of memory at 1TB storage is priced at $5,399, about $100 less than the base M5 Ultra Studio's 96GB configuration at $5,499, according to Apple's live configurator …
An Apple-commissioned report by Omdia, based on 1,500 conversations with enterprise tech leaders, finds that on-device AI infrastructure offers near-zero marginal cost after initial investment, and th…
A developer's analysis of recent Hacker News threads suggests the local AI ecosystem is becoming a practical reality, with users buying Macs specifically to run models locally and successfully running…
OpenAI and Anthropic are purchasing tens of thousands of Apple Mac mini and Mac Studio units to train AI agents, causing hardware shortages and prompting Apple to release updated Mac models in late Au…
OpenAI has purchased over 10,000 Mac minis and Mac Studios to run reinforcement learning for computer-use agents, leveraging Apple's unified-memory architecture for cost-effective parallel task execut…
Apple Inc. moved up the release of new Mac mini and Mac Studio models after unexpectedly strong enterprise demand for Macs capable of running AI workloads, according to The Information. The early laun…
OpenAI has purchased tens of thousands of Mac mini and Mac Studio computers in recent months for reinforcement learning and training computer-use agents, according to The Information. The machines, ch…