2026 is shaping up to be an year when AI server farms, already reeling from energy scarcity, are likely to turn to increasingly efficient computing. And Apple's M5 Pro Mac mini might be the perfect solution, especially as it is already cheaper to run relatively simple ML algorithms and AI workloads on Apple silicon instead of NVIDIA GPUs. macOS 26.1 unlocks a new low-latency Thunderbolt 5 feature, allowing for efficient clustering of multiple Macs Alex Ziskind showed in a recent video that it was cheaper to run less complicated machine learning (ML) and AI tasks on dedicated Apple silicon as […]

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Samsung is reportedly following Apple's lead in giving Meta some much-needed competition in the AI-enabled smart glasses sphere, with two successive versions set to come out in 2026 and 2027, respectively. Samsung's AI-enabled smart glasses versions due in 2026 and 2027 According to the rumor aggregation site, Yeux1122's blog, Samsung is working on two distinct AI-enabled smart glasses projects: Meanwhile, Apple has apparently delayed its plans to launch the Vision Pro Air to focus on AI-enabled smart glasses. The Vision Pro Air also faced another setback recently when it emerged that Samsung has canceled its plans to develop a glass-based […]

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