Microsoft launches MXC, an OS-level sandbox for AI agents, with OpenAI and Nvidia already on board
For the past two years, the technology industry has raced to make AI agents more capable — teaching them to write code, navigate software interfaces, manage files, and orchestrate multi-step workflo [...]
Perplexity built an “air-traffic controller” that decides in real time whether your AI query runs on your PC or in the cloud
Perplexity AI has developed a platform that dynamically splits AI workloads between personal computers and cloud servers, deciding in real time which tasks can run locally on a PC’s processor and wh [...]
Perplexity announces hybrid AI system that decides what runs locally or in the cloud
Perplexity has announced an orchestrator that combines AI models running on your own computer with powerful cloud models and automatically decides which task gets processed where.<br /> The arti [...]
Google's new open source Gemma 4 12B analyzes audio, video — and runs entirely locally on a typical 16GB enterprise laptop
While many AI open source model providers are pursuing larger and more powerful models, Google is still giving attention to the smaller, more local side of the market. Today, the tech giant released G [...]
Google's NotebookLM now runs its own cloud computer with code execution and agent-based research
Google is giving NotebookLM a major upgrade. The research tool now runs on Gemini 3.5 Flash, has its own cloud computer for code execution, and can find sources on its own via Google Search. In intern [...]
Aryon Security raises $29M to stop cloud breaches before they happen
Aryon Security, an Israeli cloud-security startup, has raised $29M in a Series A round to push a prevention-first approach to securing the cloud. The round, which the company says brings its total fun [...]
The AI pricing paradox: AI PCs might be the answer to spiralling cloud costs for some, but that doesn't mean cloud computing's days are numbered
Cloud AI pricing is shifting toward consumption and outcomes, and AI PCs are becoming more expensive – how does the hybrid future look? [...]
AlphaGo’s David Silver puts his superintelligence bet on Google Cloud
Ineffable Intelligence, the London startup founded by the DeepMind researcher behind AlphaGo, has named Google Cloud as the infrastructure partner for its frontier AI lab. The deal, announced at Googl [...]