Field notes from the desk where the models actually run: local LLMs, the gear that feeds them, and now the fight over what all this AI costs, the data centers, the grid, and who pays. No filler, no hype. If it ships, I ran it. If it is landing in the back yard, I am watching it.
xAI's coding agent got caught uploading home directories, SSH keys and all, to cloud buckets. The lesson is not "never trust xAI." It is that "local" describes what leaves your machine, and almost nobody checks.
read the story →⚡ Signal over noise
Moonshot AI's Kimi K3 shipped with open weights and enough capability to restart the DeepSeek argument: if a model you can download keeps pace with the frontier, what were the export controls buying?
llama.cpp build b10069 adds OpenCL broadcast support for Adreno MUL_MAT operations and fixes view offset handling for Adreno Q8_0 MUL_MAT in llama-server multi-stream mode.
A solo dev open-sourced NInfer, a from-scratch C++/CUDA engine that sustains 542 tok/s on Qwen3.6-35B-A3B over a full 65K-token decode, single request, on one RTX 5090.
