AI Agents Come Home, While the Cloud Keeps Working

Perplexity brings a locally running agent to high-end Windows PCs, offering a new privacy option with a steep hardware floor and a hybrid cloud path. Meta turns heavier AI use into subscription bundles, Amazon gives workplace agents always-on cloud jobs, and Microsoft agrees to enforceable school AI privacy terms with two US teacher unions. We also cover an actively exploited Cisco email-gateway flaw, NVIDIA's open-source compiler layer for fault-tolerant quantum programs, and two GitHub changes affecting Copilot costs and old HTTPS clients. Full transcript: https://www.owenonthenet.com/podcast/2026-09-16/ Sources: https://blogs.nvidia.com/blog/local-ai-perplexity-windows-pcs https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/artificial-intelligence/perplexitys-local-ai-agent-comes-to-windows-but-only-for-rtx-gpus-with-at-least-24gb-of-vram-portable-computer-brings-ai-for-multistep-tasks-to-compatible-pcs https://about.fb.com/news/2026/09/introducing-meta-one-subscription-service-more-features-ai https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2026/09/amazon-quick-always-on-agents-sharper-feed-enterprise-controls https://news.microsoft.com/source/2026/09/09/aft-uft-and-microsoft-announce-national-ai-safety-privacy-standard-for-schools-to-protect-students-families-and-educators https://apnews.com/article/ai-school-student-data-privacy-microsoft-google-89b040631d635e0d8673f1e9aa9a6e28 https://sec.cloudapps.cisco.com/security/center/content/CiscoSecurityAdvisory/cisco-sa-esa-inj-2bLVGmhX https://nvidianews.nvidia.com/news/nvidia-expands-open-source-cuda-q-platform-for-fault-tolerant-quantum-computing https://research.nvidia.com/publication/2026-09_cuda-q-logical-retargetable-compilation-fault-tolerant-quantum-computing https://github.blog/changelog/2026-09-14-configure-cost-and-quality-in-copilot-auto-model-selection https://github.blog/changelog/2026-09-15-sha-1-in-https-on-github-sunset https://github.blog/changelog/2026-04-20-sunsetting-sha-1-in-https-on-github