Tom Fenton tackles seven free and open-source AI tools bring local chat, coding, voice, design and research capabilities to personal computers and self-hosted environments.

If you’ve ever connected a headset, monitor, or Bluetooth speaker to your PC only to have Windows start routing audio to the wrong device, you know how annoying it can be. One minute, your music is ...

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Chrome’s automatic Gemini Nano installation writes a file called weights.bin to a folder most people have never opened and wouldn’t think to check. Chrome has been running an experiment on its users’ ...

Phi-4 14B through Ollama was the best local performer in this project, combining correct answers with usable response times. Copilot remained faster and smoother on the same benchmark prompts, while ...

The modern AI engineering landscape is experiencing severe API fatigue. The prevailing trend in multi-agent orchestration leans heavily on massive cloud dependencies, centralized vector databases, and ...

Ollama is a user-friendly, locally installed AI. You will be surprised at the benefits you gain from this app. Not only is Ollama free and private, but it's also open-source. Ollama is a small player ...

A clean install of Windows 11 25H2 wipes your drive and sets up a completely fresh copy of the operating system — no leftover apps, corrupted files, or outdated settings. Whether your PC is sluggish, ...

Qdrant is launching version 1.18 of its platform, introducing TurboQuant, a new quantization method developed by Google Research. According to the company, TurboQuant applies a fast Hadamard rotation ...

Reporting from May 2026 accurately claimed that Google Chrome silently installed a 4-gigabyte artificial intelligence model on users' devices without consent, and that the model reinstalls itself if ...