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News Summary: NVIDIA RTX Spark laptops are available today from ASUS, Dell, HP, Lenovo, Microsoft and MSI — with additional systems to follow — bringing RTX acceleration and NVIDIA's full-stack AI platform to slim, premium Windows PCs for creation, gaming and local AI. RTX Spark delivers up to 1 petaflop of AI compute and up to 128GB of unified memory — enabling AI developers, creators and gamers to run frontier AI models locally, render 90GB+ 3D scenes and play AAA games at 1440p at over 100 frames per second, all on a slim, portable device. Day-one support across local AI agents, creative apps and major games helps users put RTX Spark to work immediately — from editing with Adobe Photoshop and Premiere to running Hermes and OpenClaw agents and playing titles including Gears of War: E-Day and NBA 2K27 with NVIDIA DLSS 5. NVIDIA today announced the availability of NVIDIA RTX Spark™ laptops, bringing together RTX graphics and NVIDIA's full-stack AI platform in slim, premium Windows PCs for accelerated creation, immersive gaming and powerful local AI — rolling out from ASUS, Dell, HP, Lenovo, Microsoft and MSI.

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SAVE $200: The Apple Mac Studio M5 Max is on sale at Amazon for $2,299, down from the list price of $2,499. That's a savings of $200 from the 8% discount. We haven't even hit Halloween yet, but it's feeling like Black Friday with all the deals rolling in. As tech prices continue to rise (along with everything else), we're not mad at all that sales are already underway. If you've been checking out Apple's newest tech, there's a nice deal in store today. As of Oct. 19, the Apple Mac Studio M5 Max is on sale at Amazon for $2,299, down from the list price of $2,499. That's a saving of $200 from the 8% discount. Today's sale price is the lowest we've ever seen at Amazon. Apple didn't hold back on upgrades with the new Mac Studio M5 Max. It comes with Thunderbolt 5 ports, the ability to connect with up to eight monitors, and of course, there's the M5 Max chip. Apple considers this model to be exceptional for those who have high-demand tasks to complete but don't want to place anything bulky on their desks. The Mac Studio is a 7.7-inch square that'll easily tuck under most displays.

Support WBURThis photograph shows a figurine in front of the logo of the US artificial intelligence safety and research company Anthropic during a photo session in Paris on February 13, 2026. (Joel Saget / AFP via Getty Images)It's hard to crack open a newspaper or watch the news without a new story about artificial intelligence, or AI, as we now call it. But deciphering what's being said, with the jargon expanding as quickly as the armies of rogue bots, has most of us scratching our heads. What is an 'agent'? What's a sandbox (hint, it's not real and it holds no sand)? And what about 'recursive self-improvement,' 'distillation,' or 'the singularity'? Boston Globe columnist Larry Edelman joins Here & Now's Robin Young to define some of the most common AI terms and explain their significance. His recent column in the Boston Globe is "AI making your head spin? Here's a plain English guide to the jargon. "This segment airs on October 19, 2026. Audio will be available after the broadcast. Here & Now: Editors' PicksInside AI

The latest use case for AI? Dumbing down your smart TV to get rid of the bloat. A number of developers and vibe coders have recently been sharing solutions for “vibe-coding” your TV to get rid of sponsored ads, speed up the app launcher, redesign the home screen, disable tracking features, and more. One such solution, called “dumbtv,” describes its mission on its GitHub page thus: “Your TV should do what you paid for: your apps, your HDMI inputs, and nothing else. No ads from the TV itself, no watch tracking, no update you did not ask for.”