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Thelio Mira AI Linux Workstation: 192 GB GPU Memory

System76 launches the Thelio Mira AI Linux workstation from $3,299 with dual NVIDIA RTX Pro 6000 GPUs and 192 GB GPU memory for local AI workloads.

System76's Thelio Mira AI is a locally built (Denver, Colorado) Linux workstation for AI training, fine-tuning, and inference, starting at $3,299. Configurations go up to a 16-core AMD Ryzen 9000 CPU, 192 GB DDR5 RAM, and dual NVIDIA RTX Pro 6000 Blackwell GPUs delivering 192 GB of (ECC) GPU memory with liquid cooling, dual PCIe 5.0 x16 slots, and up to three M.2 NVMe drives. It ships with Pop!_OS 24.04 LTS or Ubuntu and is positioned as a way to avoid recurring cloud GPU costs.

Hacker News · AI·Sep 10, 23:10 UTC · 6d agoAI industryHN 44↑ · 27 comments

Apple Doesn’t Want You to Worry About the New Apple Watch's Listening Features

Apple Watch Series 12 and Ultra 4 add opt-in audio intelligence features that process microphone audio on-device via a new Secure Exclave.

The Apple Watch Series 12 and Ultra 4 ship with four opt-in audio intelligence features: Sound Recognition, Shazam music identification, Siri Recap conversation summaries, and Live Rewind 15-second transcription. Audio is held and processed in an isolated Secure Exclave buffer on the new S11 chips, with on-device speech recognition on iPhone producing a distilled transcript that foundation models in Private Cloud Compute then summarize. Apple says no raw audio is stored or accessible to the operating system, apps, the user, or Apple, and untransferred audio is automatically deleted.

WIRED · Security·Sep 9, 19:14 UTC · 7d agoAI industry1

[AINews] OpenAI to reach AGI bar by end-2026

OpenAI chief scientist Jakub Pachocki says unreleased Astra model meets the 'Automated AI Research Intern' goal; Altman expects internal AGI declaration by December 2026.

OpenAI chief scientist Jakub Pachocki says the unreleased Astra model fulfills the September 2026 'Automated AI Research Intern' target. Sam Altman told TIME he expects OpenAI to declare AGI achieved internally by December 2026. The roundup also covers Zhipu's GLM-5.3-Flash (320B total parameters, 18B active, 1M context), Google's Gemini Omni 1.1 Flash video model topping the Text-to-Video Arena, and the $399 open-source Microduck biped robot from Pollen Robotics and Hugging Face.

Latent Space·Aug 28, 07:12 UTC · 19d agoAI industry

Extracting Data from Smartphones

Schneier on Security·Dec 11, 06:19 UTC · Dec 11, 2019AI industry

GoTrustID releases a smart phone alternative to USB FIDO Key

Help Net Security·May 13, 00:00 UTC · May 13, 2019AI industry