Field notes from the desk where the models actually run: local LLMs, the gear that feeds them, and the 3D printer humming in the corner. No filler, no hype. If it ships, I ran it.
AMD's 128GB unified-memory Ryzen AI Halo developer box launched at $3,999, about $700 under NVIDIA's Linux-only DGX Spark, sold in the US exclusively through Micro Center in-store pickup.
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Claude's 5-hour and weekly limits got a clean-slate reset for all paid tiers this week, and included Fable 5 access was extended from July 7 to July 12 after subscriber backlash.
A day after GPT-5.6 went GA, OpenAI shipped ChatGPT Work: an in-ChatGPT agent that works across Slack, Teams, Drive, and email for hours at a stretch, metered like Codex.
Before the public launch, GPT-5.6 sat in a preview limited to about 20 government-vetted partners under the new US frontier-AI oversight process. The White House disputes calling the release an approval.
