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MacBook choices reshaped laptops for 20 years as PC industry followed Apple

Apple’s MacBook lineup is seen as having reset expectations in the laptop market over the past 20 years, according to a report cited by Engadget. The article traces Apple’s notebook strategy from early portable Macs through the Intel processor shift and unibody designs to the wedge-shaped MacBook Air and Retina displays. It also highlights controversy over port removals and the Touch Bar. It says Apple silicon, starting with M1 in 2020, intensified competition over performance and battery life.

AI & Enterprise

AMD, Intel integrate x86 AI software to counter Arm push

AMD and Intel will work together to make AI development on x86 CPUs easier, HotHardware reported. The two companies plan to integrate their PyTorch optimisation technologies into the open-source oneDNN library. The move is expected to let developers use the same software on processors from both companies and reduce the need to optimise AI workloads separately for each CPU. The cooperation is seen as a response to Arm-based competitors.

AI & Enterprise

AI bubble fears sweep tech, boosting open-weight AI

Concerns about excessive investment in AI infrastructure weighed on tech markets, pushing down AI-related stocks, while Apple, seen as investing less in AI, reached a $5 trillion market value after Nvidia. Some observers warn today’s AI data-centre shortages could turn into long-term overcapacity that shocks equities, with investors shifting toward U.S. Treasuries. The report also cites slowing revenue growth at Anthropic and increased moves by U.S. firms into open-weight AI models.