Nova Lake vs Medusa: buy now or wait? 2027 AI PC fleet refresh guide
Nova Lake and Medusa are announced but unspecified. What Intel and AMD have confirmed, what ships today, and a buy-now-or-wait plan tied to the 12 October 2027 Windows deadline.
Founder of eCorpIT. Hands-on engineer leading senior-only delivery for AI apps, custom software, and cloud systems for global clients.
Nova Lake and Medusa are announced but unspecified. What Intel and AMD have confirmed, what ships today, and a buy-now-or-wait plan tied to the 12 October 2027 Windows deadline.
From 1 December 2026 Gemini 4 Argon matches Claude Opus 5.5 at $4/$20 per million tokens, while GPT-6.1 Sol stays at $2/$10. Verified prices, benchmarks and a 20-engineer cost model.
What IT buyers should watch at CES 2027: confirmed keynotes, Intel's Nova Lake update, Copilot+ PC specs, Wi-Fi 8, smart glasses, robotics and the Windows 10 ESU clock.
The CMA's publisher rule makes Google report AI Overviews and AI Mode engagement from 3 December 2026. What to expect, and how to baseline Search Console, GA4 and logs now.
Article 29 of the EU Data Act ends cloud switching charges, egress included, on 12 January 2027. What is covered, what AWS, Azure and Google offer, and a costed exit plan.
Google's introductory price for Gemini 3.8 Flash and 3.6 Flash ends on 31 December 2026 and every paid rate doubles. What changes, who is affected and how to cut the bill.
Gemini 3.8 Flash doubles to $1.50/$7.50 on 1 January 2027, while Claude Haiku 5.5 and GPT-6 Luna list at $0.10/$0.50. Which cheap model fits which workload, with labelled benchmarks.
Every Google core and spam update from 2023 to 2026 with start dates, end dates and durations, what the March pattern means for 2027, and a symptom-to-fix recovery table.
Google's site reputation policy now splits by searcher location: no manual-action impact in the EEA since 30 August 2026, full enforcement elsewhere. What changed and what to audit for 2027.
GPT-4o, GPT-4o mini, GPT-4.1 and GPT-4.1 mini leave the OpenAI API on 14 January 2027. Luna mapping, behaviour changes, Azure dates, an evals plan and cost maths.
What DoT's SIM binding direction says, what Parliament confirmed about the 31 December 2026 deadline and web logout, and how to build SIM checks on Android and iOS.
OpenAI switches off every Speech API model on 6 January 2027 and its first Realtime and audio models on 20 January. What breaks on Vapi, Retell, LiveKit and Pipecat, and the fix.
No extension yet: NPCI's 30% UPI volume cap falls due on 31 December 2026. PhonePe held 45.6% and Google Pay 32.2% in September. Scenarios and a build plan for 2027.
Windows Server 2016 loses security updates on 12 January 2027. What ends, what ESUs cost now, which upgrade paths work, how to move domain controllers, and a 90-day plan.
Upgrade to Windows Server 2025, move to Azure, or rebuild on Azure Local? Licensing models, November 2026 list prices and a three-year cost comparison for a 10-VM workload.
Broadcom's VMware licensing changes have public sector IT teams re-tendering. Five alternatives compared on licensing, sovereignty, procurement fit, support and vendor continuity.
The MacBook Pro with PROLED XDR Display brings touch to the Mac. What macOS 27 handles for you, the 8 changes Apple asks of AppKit apps, cross-platform frameworks, Live Activities and key dates.
Five agent frameworks compared on licence, durable execution, human-in-the-loop, MCP, OpenTelemetry and October 2026 hosting prices, with a TypeScript vs Python decision table.
A buyer's comparison of AI agent guardrail tools in 2026: verified prices, licences, the 2025-26 acquisitions, a 10M-request cost model and where each control sits.
E2B, Daytona, Modal, Vercel, Cloudflare, Northflank, Runloop and self-hosted Kubernetes compared on 2026 pricing, isolation, egress control and India regions.
Palo Alto now owns Portkey, a poisoned LiteLLM 1.107.0 hit PyPI on 21 October and Kong split out AI Gateway 2.0. How four enterprise AI gateways compare on governance and cost.
Modal, Baseten, Runpod and Replicate compared on verified October 2026 GPU prices, billing units, cold starts, compliance and India data residency, with a worked 70B cost model.
Vapi vs Retell vs Bland vs LiveKit for production voice agents: verified October 2026 prices, concurrency, HIPAA costs, a 10,000 and 100,000-minute cost model and India's new TRAI rules.
Browserbase, Steel, Kernel, Hyperbrowser and Browserless compared on October 2026 pricing, licences, regions and compliance, with a worked cost for 1,000 browser-hours a month.