AI News October 12, 2026
Today's AI headlines: Learning to use local AI is exciting, overwhelming, and frustrating, Impactful scheduling for GPU clusters, We’re putting too much faith i
Learning to use local AI is exciting, overwhelming, and frustrating
Baby’s first local AI agent. | Photo: Antonio G. Di Benedetto / The Verge
I'm embarking on a journey I've so far been hesitant to go on: actually using AI on the regular. Giving my most personal data to cloud services has been a major hold up for me, but it's increasingly possible to run powerful models locally to see what they're capable of. Is this tech so useful that it's worth throwing gobs of money at a computer or a laptop with lots of overpriced RAM? I'll try to help you find out. I'm n
Impactful scheduling for GPU clusters
We’re putting too much faith in AI’s ability to say no
Ever since people first seriously contemplated giving machines an intelligence modeled on our own, there has never been any question that they would, like us, be able to say no. The sci-fi canon is full of stories of robotic disobedience. Most of these capers are, of course, cautionary. But recently, the idea that AI shouldn’t…