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PyTorch Foundation adds Helion and Safetensors - and the open AI stack gets a little harder to ignore

Mark Collier briefed me on two updates under embargo at KubeCon Europe 2026 last month: Helion, which opens up GPU kernel ...
Morning Overview on MSN

Apple approves Tiny Corp driver enabling AMD and Nvidia eGPUs on Macs

Apple has approved a third-party driver from Tiny Corp that lets Apple Silicon Macs recognize external AMD and Nvidia GPUs ...

Why Running Google’s Gemma 4 Locally Is Easier Than You Think

Gemma 4 setup for beginners: download and run Google’s Apache 2.0 open model locally with Ollama on Windows, macOS, or Linux via terminal commands.

Intel's new AI compression tech can significantly shrink game texture sizes and reduce VRAM use

TSNC is being positioned as a practical path for developers who already ship BC-compressed assets and want to squeeze more data into the same storage, bandwidth, ...
Virtualization Review

Running AI Natively on Windows 11 Using an eGPU

Tom Fenton reports running Ollama on a Windows 11 laptop with an older eGPU (NVIDIA Quadro P2200) connected via Thunderbolt dramatically outperforms both CPU-only native Windows and VM-based ...