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Microsoft’s Surface Laptop Ultra with NVIDIA’s RTX Spark chip and 128GB unified memory is already out of stock at $5,899.99 in the US — just days after launch.
A developer has connected a local LLM running on a Mac to Gmail, Google Calendar, and Home Assistant — using open protocol standards — and found it meaningfully useful for daily tasks without sending prompts or data to the cloud.
Claude Haiku 5.5 is live globally: free for all users, 90% cheaper for developers, and benchmarked by Anthropic against GPT-6 Luna — though independent verification is still pending.
MSI’s $5,499 Pro Max Edge AI+ is the first mini PC built for serious offline AI workloads — 128GB RAM, Radeon 8060S graphics, and full Windows 11 Pro support — now shipping globally.
Anthropic has launched Claude Haiku 5.5 — its fastest and cheapest model yet, priced at $0.10 per million input tokens in the US, with a 1-million-token context window. It’s live globally as of Tuesday, October 8, 2026.