Local AI in your backpack: hidden bills, AMD, and the power of a few

Can a 235-billion-parameter model fit inside a $1,499 mini computer? This week in artificial intelligence: local hardware challenging the cloud, developers with $800 GitHub Copilot bills, and a multimillion-dollar lawsuit against Anthropic over hidden limits in its Max plans.

We analyze AMD’s mini PC with the Ryzen AI Max Plus 395 chip, the crisis of trust in AI subscriptions, Satya Nadella’s warning about the concentration of technological power, and Meta’s $145 billion bet on agent infrastructure. The tension between democratization and oligopoly has never been clearer—or more expensive.

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