Running an AI model locally, Perplexity's new Portable Computer can deliver faster performance, tighter security, and lower costs. But it has some strict requirements ...

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Perplexity AI, the fast-growing search startup now valued at $20 billion, unveiled what it calls the first hybrid local-server inference orchestrator at Computex 2026 on Monday night, demonstrating ...

Perplexity AI launched Personal Computer for Windows on Tuesday, July 28, 2026, extending its agentic desktop platform from Mac to the operating system that powers roughly 1.4 billion devices ...

Perplexity AI Inc. today introduced Portable Computer, an artificial intelligence agent designed to run on desktops equipped with Nvidia Corp. silicon. The launch follows a report that Nvidia is ...

AI models have been helping with predictions for a while now. Doctors, weather forecasters and stock brokers all use AI to try to peek into the future. Inside the Leibniz Supercomputing Centre in ...

Chrome’s automatic Gemini Nano installation writes a file called weights.bin to a folder most people have never opened and wouldn’t think to check. Chrome has been running an experiment on its users’ ...

Computer scientists recently discovered a way to extract the hidden “thinking” that frontier AI models perform as they work through complex problems. The findings provide some evidence—although not ...

Can autonomous AI agents be sued or prosecuted for hacking? It’s no longer a question for sci-fi movies. It’s a question human lawyers and judges may soon have to grapple with. Under current U.S.

The Trump administration is looking to develop a process that would have the federal government review the safety of powerful artificial intelligence models before approving their release, according ...