{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"UpNext AI","title":"Nvidia’s Local Agent Push, Intel’s Inference Chip Plan, and Neuromorphic AI Benchmarks | UpNext AI – June 1, 2026","html":"<iframe width=\"100%\" height=\"180\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\" seamless src=\"https://share.transistor.fm/e/2983f217\"></iframe>","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":375,"description":"Today on UpNext AI: Nvidia makes a broad push to bring personal AI agents onto RTX PCs and DGX Spark systems, Intel says it is targeting a new AI data-centre inference chip by year-end, and we dig into a research paper on benchmark datasets for spiking graph neural networks on neuromorphic hardware.Covered in this episode:- Nvidia unveils RTX Spark and expands local AI agent tooling across RTX PCs and DGX systems- Intel targets a new AI data-centre inference GPU by the end of the year- New npj Unconventional Computing paper builds smaller citation-network benchmarks for spiking graph neural networks on neuromorphic hardware- Anthropic details how it contains Claude across products- Report says AI search agents can confirm prior assumptions instead of actually researching the web- Financial Times reports Western AI models are helping sharpen Iran’s cyber operations- A broader jobs warning around the rise of AI agentsSources:- Nvidia: https://blogs.nvidia.com/blog/rtx-ai-garage-computex-spark-local-agents/- Financial Times on Intel: https://www.ft.com/content/3ca15070-c1c7-4ec2-9598-e36b7de47bc0- npj Unconventional Computing paper: https://www.nature.com/articles/s44335-026-00068-2- Simon Willison on Anthropic containment: https://simonwillison.net/2026/May/30/how-we-contain-claude/#atom-everything- The Decoder on AI search agents: https://the-decoder.com/ai-search-agents-often-confirm-what-they-already-know-instead-of-actually-researching-the-web/- Financial Times on Iran and ChatGPT: https://www.ft.com/content/4f18256e-a58f-4411-97e4-ac5e5eb055aa- Times Now on AI agents and jobs: https://www.timesnownews.com/technology-science/big-techs-ai-agent-dream-could-come-at-the-expense-of-millions-of-jobs-article-154432517","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/U8MjYsqEAUXr8sykSIjiubn3kUnZpkcAAqCjELTLubA/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS85YWE0/MDRlYTJkZTY4ZDhk/N2YzZjZmYzg0ZmQ2/Mzg1NC5wbmc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}