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March 11, 2025 / Max Weinbach

A weekend with Apple’s Mac Studio with M3 Ultra: The only real AI workstation today

Executive Summary: The Apple Mac Studio featuring the M3 Ultra represents the most powerful AI workstation currently available, tailored specifically toward AI developers’ demanding workflows. With its unprecedented unified memory (up to 512GB) and robust GPU performance, the M3 Ultra Mac Studio excels at running large language models (LLMs) efficiently, surpassing even high-end PCs in…

February 27, 2025 / Carolina Milanesi

Alexa+: Amazon’s Home Assistant Grown Up to Be a Full-Fledged AI Agent

The recent unveiling of Amazon’s enhanced Alexa with generative AI capabilities marks a significant milestone in the evolution of home-based AI assistants. As tech companies increasingly focus on generative AI capabilities, Amazon has carefully reimagined its digital assistant while preserving what made Alexa special in the first place: a personal and context aware helpful companion…

February 19, 2025 / Ben Bajarin

iPhone 16e Positioning in the Market and Apple C1 Strategy

Today Apple officially announced the newest member of the iPhone family, which includes the newest member of the Apple silicon family: the C1 (Cellular 1), their first-party Apple-designed cellular modem. iPhone 16e Position in the Market Where does the new iPhone fit in the current iPhone lineup is one of the main questions that has…

February 11, 2025 / Carolina Milanesi

Cisco’s Strategic Push into AI Infrastructure and Security at Cisco Live EMEA 2025.

At this year’s Cisco Live EMEA, the networking giant unveiled a comprehensive strategy that signals a decisive move into the AI infrastructure space while reinforcing its traditional strengths in networking and security. The announcements represent not just product updates, but a fundamental shift in how Cisco envisions the future of enterprise IT infrastructure and the…

November 4, 2024 / Ben Bajarin

Intel’s Necessary Pain: Why Pat Gelsinger’s Technology-First Turnaround Deserves More Time

The recent Reuters article criticizing Pat Gelsinger’s leadership at Intel paints a stark picture of a struggling turnaround, but the reality is far more nuanced. As someone who has followed Intel closely for decades, I believe much of the criticism overlooks both the magnitude of challenges Gelsinger inherited and the fundamental necessity of his technology-first…

October 30, 2024 / Ben Bajarin

Meta Orion – The Future Pulled Forward to Today

I had the opportunity to experience the full Meta Orion demo and, like many others who got to try the device, it was truly incredible. I’ll share my experience in the middle of this report, but I want to add some perspective on how Meta is approaching this vs. the way Apple has decided to…

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