Running large language models locally has become much easier over the past couple of years, but a gap remains between downloading a model and having a useful desktop environment for it. Jan describes itself as a ChatGPT alternative, offering an open-source desktop app with a familiar chat-style interface that keeps most of the setup inside

IBM and Red Hat said on October 6 that Lightwell, the open-source security program the two companies funded with $5 billion in May, has found, fixed, and backported patches for more than 400 previously unknown vulnerabilities in widely used Java libraries. The same announcement made Lightwell Clearinghouse generally available, so enterprise customers can now submit

Marvell announced its second-generation Structera X CXL memory expanders at the OCP Global Summit, moving the line to six memory channels, four-host sharing, and a PCIe 6.0 x16 host link. The Structera X 3406 drives 18 DDR4 RDIMM slots for up to 9TB behind one controller, and the Structera X 3506 drives 12 DDR5 RDIMM

IBM announced a self-hosted deployment option for IBM Bob on October 1, bringing its agentic software development platform to on-premises, private cloud, sovereign cloud, and air-gapped environments. Bob runs on infrastructure the customer manages, with model inference either on supported models the customer installs locally or, in hybrid configurations, through approved external model services. IBM

Microsoft unveiled Azure Maia 300 today at the OCP Global Summit, the third generation of its in-house inference accelerator and the first built as a multi-chiplet part. Each accelerator pairs a TSMC N2P compute die with eight HBM4 stacks for 288GB of memory at 18TB/s inside a 950W TDP, and a Maia 300 rack holds

Intel today gave Crescent Island its product name at the OCP Global Summit. The Intel GPU D-series is built on the Xe3P architecture and pairs up to 480GB of LPDDR5X with 1.5TB/s of memory bandwidth and 1.3 petaflops of FP8 compute, all inside a 350W air-cooled PCIe card. The 480GB figure applies to partner-built cards;

Micas Networks announced three 102.4Tb/s Ethernet switches today, all built on Broadcom Tomahawk 6 and all running SONiC: a 4RU air-cooled switch with 128 ports at 800G, a 2RU liquid-cooled switch with 64 ports at 1.6T, and a 1RU co-packaged optics switch on Broadcom’s Tomahawk 6-Davisson. The company is demonstrating the 4RU system at the

Airrived has been named a Cool Vendor in Gartner’s Coolest Vendor Innovations in Agentic AI Security report, published October 2. The Dublin, California firm sells what it calls an Agentic OS, a platform for building, orchestrating, and governing autonomous AI agents across cybersecurity, IT, and business operations. The pitch is that domain experts do the

Brian sat down with Chris Sullivan, Director of Research and Academic Computing in Oregon State University’s College of Earth, Ocean, and Atmospheric Sciences, for a live podcast at Yotta 2026 in Las Vegas. This is an audio-only episode, recorded on the show floor. Chris has been a steady collaborator on our edge AI work, from