Startup Pitches Old Macs as Paid Nodes for AI Inference Network
Darkbloom wants to turn idle Apple Macs into paid nodes for a distributed AI inference network, The Register reports — though key details on payouts and safeguards remain unverified.
Why Scoring AI's Human Simulations Like a Math Test Gets It Wrong
A Renmin University team says grading AI social-simulation models against one "correct" human answer is fundamentally flawed, proposing a subjectivity coefficient and soft-label training method instead.
Alibaba's Chip Independence Pitch Is Bigger on Slides Than on Servers
Alibaba's CEO says self-developed chips will push cloud margins even higher, but T-Head's 650 external customers versus AWS Graviton's 120,000+ show how early this substitution really is.
Cisco's Bug Severity Warning Reads Like Olympic Gymnastics Scores: 10, 10, 9.9, 9.6, 7.5
Cisco disclosed nine critical-to-high severity flaws across Secure Workload, Crosswork, and BroadWorks on August 19, 2026, none exploited yet — and credits its own AI-assisted testing for catching them first.
