Qualcomm introduced two new flagship smartphone chips, the Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 6 and Extreme Gen 6, at its Snapdragon Summit, emphasizing on-device AI capabilities. The Extreme version can run a 30-billion-parameter mixture-of-experts model locally, includes a new sensing hub for personalized AI agents, and supports 8K60fps video recording. Motorola announced its Signature 27 phone will use the Extreme chip, with availability planned later this year.
techcrunch.com
· 2026-09-22
Researchers behind the dealignai project published a modified version of DeepSeek's V4.1-Flash model with its safety refusal circuitry surgically removed at the weight level, while preserving core capabilities like reasoning, vision, and its 1M-token context. The team says the checkpoint loads like a standard model with no special code needed, and claims HarmBench testing shows a 100% attack success rate for harmful prompts across both low and high reasoning effort settings, compared to the base model's much lower compliance rate.
huggingface.co
· 2026-09-11
Perplexity and Nvidia have released Portable Computer, a locally-run version of Perplexity's Computer AI platform that performs agentic workloads directly on a user's PC or workstation instead of relying on cloud servers. The app mirrors the original Computer interface, supports Qwen 3.8 and PPLX local models (both scaling to 27 billion parameters), and will soon add Nvidia's Nemotron 3.5 Lightning model, while asking users for permission before sending any data to cloud-based frontier models for harder tasks.
techspot.com
· 2026-08-26
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