• Tesla announced its new model Roadster - yes, the one The Verge was whining about.  Taking reservations now for delivery in 2028.  Or later.
  
  It flies.  (Business Insider)
  
  Literally.
  
  I thought it was AI for a moment.
  
  Okay, falling with style, but falling with a lot of style.  It can also drive on vertical surfaces...  And on the wrong side of horizontal ones.
  
  The flying version is single-seater and not approved for public road use.
  
  Eppure vola.

• Microsoft's Surface Laptop Ultra is here and it's eh.  (Tom's Hardware)
  
  It has Nvidia's RTX Spark chip, which is basically an RTX 5070 graphics card with some ARM cores and 128GB of RAM glued onto it.
  
  If you want to run large AI models on your laptop, it is faster than a MacBook or AMD's competing Ryzen 395 (they really need to update that).  But there aren't that many people buying laptops specifically to run 35B LLMs on them.
  
  
  
• The Return of the Revenge of Little Bobby Tables.  (The Register)
  
  Robert Xavier Tables, you validate your data right now!
  
  
  
• Meta's Muse Spark Open, an 816 billion parameter model, is available for download now.  (Meta)
  
  All you need is half a terabyte of RAM.  And a 32GB graphics card, minimum.
  
  
  

Musical Interlude

Posted by: furball321 at Friday, October 16 2026 11:38 PM (nzXoV)

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