This Week in Tech: AI Gets Bigger, Gadgets Get Smarter, and Security Risks Mount - TechRepublic
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This week, the technology industry pushed artificial intelligence into larger models, custom chips, app stores, wearables, and connected homes. At the same time, zero-click spyware, widespread vulnerabilities, infrastructure attacks, regulatory scrutiny, layoffs, and disappointing revenue expectations highlighted the growing risks surrounding that expansion.
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AI models grow more powerful and more demanding
Meta’s Muse Spark Open demonstrates both the capabilities and extraordinary hardware demands of the latest open-weight AI models. The multimodal system has 816 billion parameters and a 1-million-token context window. Running it locally requires approximately 1TB of unified memory and a compatible Mac configuration estimated to cost more than $40,000.
Google, meanwhile, has opened Gemini 4 Argon to paying Gemini and API customers. The...
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