Local AI guides
Run local AI on your own hardware - practical, cost-driven guides.
ZCode uploads your entire git history, and only Z.ai holds the key
ZCode, the GLM coding agent from Z.ai, uploads full workspaces with .git history, LFS cache and reflogs to Aliyun OSS. UI toggles do not stop it.
Sep 18, 2026
GuideWho funds METR? The viral Anthropic funding thread, audited
A viral thread claims Anthropic's owners secretly fund its AI-safety evaluator METR. We trace every link against the filings and funder lists it cites.
Sep 15, 2026
GuideKids are locked out of AI. The local route keeps the decision with parents
Claude is 18+ and the law now enforces age gates. Kids lose access and parents lose the say. Local AI runs at home, on the family's terms.
Sep 11, 2026
GuideDeepSeek V4.1 Flash: 8B active params, MIT weights, 1M context
DeepSeek V4.1 Flash: 552B MoE, 8B active params, FP4 KV cache at 890 bytes per token, MIT open weights, and peak pricing of $0.30/M input, $1.20/M output.
Sep 10, 2026
GuideAMD Threadripper Halo Station: a $100,000-plus local-AI workstation
AMD announced the Threadripper Halo Station at IFA 2026: dual MI350P accelerators, up to 576 GB HBM3E, Threadripper PRO 9995WX. No price or date yet.
Sep 04, 2026
GuideGLM-5.3-Flash runs 3.3x faster locally with Unsloth's MTP build
Unsloth added multi-token prediction for GLM-5.3-Flash in llama.cpp, up to 3.3x faster local decode at long context. Benchmarks, hardware, and setup.
Sep 04, 2026
GuideNVIDIA PAIR turns your household's idle PCs into a local AI cluster
NVIDIA's free PAIR beta routes AI inference across RTX PCs, Macs, and DGX Spark over your local network. How it works, setup, benchmarks, and gotchas.
Sep 04, 2026
GuideAnthropic ships a text watermark on its newest models, and code mostly escapes it
Fable 5.1 and Mythos 5.1 ship with a statistical text watermark, no opt-out. Code mostly escapes it and detection is gated to a private preview.
Sep 04, 2026
GuideWho pays when an AI agent causes damage: the contracts, the policies, and the gap
Anthropic and OpenAI terms put agent actions on the user with $100 caps. 4,078 AI insurance exclusions are in force. Where the coverage gap sits.
Sep 02, 2026
GuideRTX 5090 at $5,099: the August 2026 price check
RTX 5090 hits $5,099 at retail, used 4090s top their $1,599 MSRP, and the DGX Spark is $4,699. The August 2026 local-AI price ladder, with sources.
Aug 31, 2026
GuideDHH's Omarchy now has a $12.6M foundation and corporate patrons
Omarchy's Omacom Foundation hit $12M from twelve $1M patrons, then 1Password and 37signals pledged $100,000 a year each, taking the pot to $12.6M.
Aug 31, 2026
GuideChatGPT, Reddit and Roblox land in the DSA's strictest supervision tier
EU puts ChatGPT, Reddit and Roblox under the DSA's strictest tier: 45 million-user threshold, four months to comply, fines up to 6 percent of turnover.
Aug 31, 2026