Welcome, humans.

🔴 We are LIVE! We’re livestreaming from the ground at Adobe MAX in Los Angeles, where Adobe just announced their most aggressive AI push ever—turning Photoshop, Lightroom, and Premiere into conversational AI assistants that actually understand what you want.

In today's LIVE episode from the MAX show floor, Corey and Grant plan to break down:

• Adobe’s new Firefly Image Model 5.

• The Photoshop AI Assistant that literally talks to you.

• Custom AI models trained on YOUR style.

• Lightroom's new AI culling that finds and removes every dust spot automatically.

• The Google partnership bringing Gemini directly into Creative Cloud.

• Project Moonlight and Adobe's vision for AI assistants that work across ALL their apps.

And perhaps we’ll have a special guest from Adobe themselves…

Join the stream (or watch it later) by clicking this link here. Swing through and ask us all your burning questions about Adobe’s new AI expansion.

ICYMI: In our latest podcast episode with Logan Lawler (Dell's AI hardware expert), we cut through the marketing BS behind “AI PCs” and ask Logan exactly what specs actually matter for running AI locally on your own computer:

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Here’s some of our favorite moments:

• (0:07) What Actually Makes a Computer an AI PC?

• (4:11) NPU vs. GPU Explained: The Chip Nobody Understands.

• (19:14) The VRAM Reality Check: Why Hardware is Catching Up.

• (1:07:56) Logan's Personal AI Stack (OneTrainer, PostShot).

• (40:52) Practical Local AI: Transcribing a Podcast in 15 Seconds.

• (50:25) Apocalypse Prepping: Running Wikipedia Offline:

• (23:09) Build vs. Buy: Should You Train Your Own Model?

Bottom line: Most "AI PCs" are just regular laptops with a marketing sticker. But if you know what to look for, you can build or buy a legitimate AI workstation for less than you think.

Listen now on YouTube | Spotify | Apple Podcasts

Dive deeper with these resources:

• Dell Pro Max Workstations - See the hardware Logan chatted about.

• LM Studio LIVE Tutorial - Our guide to running AI models locally

• Kiwix Wikipedia Download - Run Wikipedia offline on any device

• OneTrainer - Train your own AI models locally

• Jawset Postshot - Professional AI rendering tool Logan uses

P.S: Logan says buying the wrong machine today could mean needing a new one in just 12-24 months to keep up. (31:01).

Grant has this dilemma every year with every new Mac M-series launch… shell out for the $5K 120GB version this year, or wait for the 20% improvement next year? Well, it turns out there’s A LOT you can do locally today with the right laptop.

And if there’s an AI crash at any point in the next two years, getting a GOOD AI machine is the difference between having local AI you can rely on, and being left in the dust if the cloud goes down or the big providers price you out of the best quality models.

Stay curious,

The Neuron Team

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