New iPad mini A20 Pro: Which Model Creators Should Buy
Apple's new iPad mini has an 8.5-inch OLED display, the A20 Pro chip and a $699 starting price. The Dual Neural Engine Apple says speeds up Draw Things is only in the $999 512GB model.
Meta Muse Gadgets Tested: Your Pi Gets an Agent Shell
Meta open-sourced Muse Gadgets on October 2: ESP32 firmware, a Linux SDK and 42 device skills. The Linux SDK lets Muse run any command as the account you choose. We tested the runner, found what the log and the sudo warning miss, and wrote a safe Pi setup.
DGX Spark 64GB: 16 Models Checked, 8 Don't Fit
NVIDIA's DGX Spark 64GB starts at $4,999 on October 23, while the 128GB model is now $6,950. We summed the real Hugging Face file sizes of 16 local LLM, image and video setups: 8 fit in 64GB, 8 don't, including gpt-oss-120b and NVIDIA's own Nemotron 3 Super.
Meta's $449 Glasses Shoot the Same 3K as the $249 Pair
Meta opened Connect 2026 with six pairs of glasses spanning $249 to $1,299.99, and the pair it put on stage first cannot take a photograph. Read the spec sheets side by side and every camera-equipped pair captures the same 12 MP stills and 3K video.
Apple M6 and M5 Ultra Supercharge Local AI on Mac
Apple unveiled the M6 and M5 Ultra chips on August 25, 2026, and the headline is on-device AI: the M5 Ultra can run and fine-tune 100B-plus parameter models entirely on a Mac.
Meta Glasses Launch at $299 With AI Photo Capture
Meta launched Meta Glasses, AI smart glasses starting at $299 that run the Muse Spark model and add a Dynamic Photo capture mode that picks your best shot.
DGX Station for Windows: Run 1T-Param Models Locally
NVIDIA announced DGX Station for Windows at Computex 2026, putting a GB300 Grace Blackwell Ultra chip and 748GB of memory into a desktop that runs trillion-parameter models locally.
RTX Spark Superchip: 128GB Unified Memory for Creators
NVIDIA officially launched the RTX Spark Superchip at GTC Taipei on June 1, 2026, putting a 6144-CUDA-core GPU, a 20-core Grace Arm CPU, and 128GB of unified memory into a single thin-and-light PC chip.
The Creator's Guide to Running AI Locally in 2026
In April 2026, a creator with a $1,200 desktop PC and a 12GB graphics card can generate publication-quality images in under 10 seconds, produce video clips, run a conversational AI, and compose music without sending a single byte to the cloud.
NVIDIA DGX Spark Puts AI Supercomputer on Your Desk
NVIDIA announced DGX Spark at GTC 2026, a desktop workstation powered by the Grace Blackwell Superchip that runs AI models up to 120B parameters locally.
MacBook Pro M5 Delivers 4x AI Boost for Creators
Apple released the MacBook Pro with M5 Pro and M5 Max on March 11, 2026, delivering 4x faster AI performance than the previous generation
AMD Ryzen AI 400 Brings AI Desktop CPUs and ROCm to Consumers
AMD launched the Ryzen AI 400 Series desktop processors at MWC 2026 on March 2, marking the first time its XDNA 2 NPU and RDNA 3.5 integrated graphics are available in a desktop form factor