It’s time for Bits & Bytes…
… where we bring you news, innovations, and thought-provoking insights from AI, IT, and beyond. In this week’s newsletter we’re looking at:
- Nvidia’s AI PCs Hit the Market
- Google’s Gemini Gets an AI Canvas
- Roblox Brings Cube 3D for AI-Generated Worlds
IN THE SPOTLIGHT
💻 Nvidia Launches New AI Personal Computers
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang has revealed the company’s new line of AI personal computers – DGX Spark and DGX Station – designed to bring supercomputing power to edge AI applications. These machines, powered by the Grace Blackwell chip platform, deliver up to 1,000 trillion operations per second and target enterprises looking to run, prototype, and fine-tune AI models locally.
The DGX Spark is available immediately, while the more powerful DGX Station with 784GB of memory will arrive later this year through manufacturing partners including Dell, HP, and Lenovo, marking Nvidia’s vision for the future of computing in the AI era.
TL;DR
- New DGX Spark and DGX Station unveiled.
- Delivers up to 1,000 trillion operations per second.
- Designed for edge AI applications.
TECH HEADLINES FROM ACROSS THE WEB
📝 Google’s Gemini Gets ChatGPT-Like Canvas Feature
Google has rolled out Canvas for its Gemini AI, a collaborative workspace similar to offerings from OpenAI and Anthropic. The tool provides an interactive environment for drafting, editing, and previewing content including HTML and React code while also introducing Audio Overview, which creates podcast-style summaries of documents and web pages.
🔨 Roblox Shares New AI Tool for 3D Creation
Roblox launches and open-sources Cube 3D, its AI model for generating 3D objects from text prompts. The system works by tokenizing 3D shapes and predicting the next token in sequence similar to how language models predict text and was trained using a combination of licensed datasets, public resources, and Roblox’s own ecosystem data.
🪲 Windows 11 Update Wipes Copilot from PCs
A recent Windows 11 Patch Tuesday update is unexpectedly removingMicrosoft’s Copilot AI assistant from users’ computers, with the company acknowledging the issue in a support document. While Microsoft works on a fix, affected users can reinstall the app from the Microsoft Store, though some Windows users may welcome the unintended removal.
TECH FOR GOOD
🩺 Google Makes Healthcare Smarter and More Connected
Google unveils comprehensive health innovations including AI-expanded search panels for thousands of medical topics, multilingual support, and a new “What People Suggest” feature that surfaces patient experiences. The company also introduces medical records APIs for Health Connect, allowing seamless integration of clinical data with everyday health metrics across Android apps.
