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Small Models Are Quietly Taking Over the Easy Work

Most production AI tasks are routine, and a new class of small models handles them at a fraction of the cost. The frontier models are becoming the exception, not the default.

News · Ahmad J · Sep 2, 2026 · 3 min read

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Which local LLMs fit in 8, 12, 16, 24 or 32GB of VRAM

At Q4_K_M and 8K context, 8GB comfortably holds Gemma 2 9B (5.8 GB) and 24GB holds Gemma 3 27B (17.5 GB). Full tables for every common VRAM tier, computed the same way our GPU checker computes them.

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How to fix a slow computer on Windows 11, ranked

Microsoft lists twelve fixes for a slow PC and tells you to try all of them. Here they are in order of how much each one can actually help, with the two that will not help listed last.

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How to Choose a Laptop for Local AI

Memory decides whether a model runs at all, bandwidth decides how fast, and thermals decide whether that speed lasts. A short buying guide, plus an interactive picker that turns your priority into a recommendation.

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Which local LLMs fit in 8, 12, 16, 24 or 32GB of VRAM

At Q4_K_M and 8K context, 8GB comfortably holds Gemma 2 9B (5.8 GB) and 24GB holds Gemma 3 27B (17.5 GB). Full tables for every common VRAM tier, computed the same way our GPU checker computes them.

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Mistral raised €3 billion on open weights. Read the licences before you ship.

Mistral's Series D values it above €21 billion and its models really are downloadable. But four different licences sit behind the words open weight, and the frontier one stops applying once your company passes $20 million of revenue in a month.

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Windows 10 has ended. What your options actually are

Your PC still works and the security updates have stopped. There are four ways forward, one of them is free, and most people who think they do not qualify are blocked by a firmware setting rather than their hardware.

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Why your computer is slow, and what actually fixes it

Slow is not one problem, it is four, and the fix for one does nothing for the others. Here is how to tell which bottleneck you have in about a minute, using a tool already on the machine, before you spend anything on the wrong upgrade.

Ahmad J · Sep 7, 2026 · 8 min read

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OpenAI's cyber model has one price and no way to lower it

GPT-5.6 Cyber is absent from all four of OpenAI's rate tables. It has a single set of rates, no batch discount, and you have to be approved before you can pay them.

Ahmad J · Sep 5, 2026 · 8 min read

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On-Device AI on Phones: Privacy and Latency, Not Hype

Running AI on the phone instead of in the cloud is sold as a buzzword. The real reasons are concrete: your data stays put, the response is instant, and it works offline.

Ahmad J · Sep 3, 2026 · 5 min read

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Mistral trains on your chats by default. Turning it off takes three separate switches

Mistral's own help centre says consumer Vibe accounts are opted in to model training by default while enterprise accounts are opted out, that the Vibe and API toggles are separate, and that the thumbs up button authorises use of your data on any plan. Here is every switch, and the one that is not a switch.

Ahmad J · Sep 2, 2026 · 6 min read

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Microsoft distilled a billion-parameter pathology model into 22M parameters

GigaPath-Flash keeps its teacher's accuracy to within 3 percent at roughly 50 times less compute, under Apache 2.0 with the weights on Hugging Face. The companion tumour model went the other way and beat its original, most of all out of distribution. Neither is validated for clinical use, and Microsoft says so first.

Ahmad J · Sep 2, 2026 · 4 min read

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Gemini can now skim a video instead of watching every frame

Google replaced fixed-rate video ingest with an agentic loop that fetches only the moments it needs, and reports up to 88 percent fewer tokens. Every headline figure is an upper bound, the gains concentrate on long video, and the cost saving is just the token saving passed through.

Ahmad J · Sep 2, 2026 · 4 min read

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