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  <description>Notes on running AI on your own phone: what on-device models can really do, what the cloud costs you in money and privacy, and where the line falls.</description>
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    <description>Chat boxes ask what happens to the text you paste. Agents ask for standing access to your mail, files and calendar — and the permission model was never designed for software that can be talked into things.</description>
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    <pubDate>Sun, 17 Aug 2026 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
    <description>Stack up the monthly charges people are now carrying and run it out three years. The number is not small.</description>
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    <title>What on-device AI can actually do in 2026</title>
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    <description>An honest capability map: where a phone-sized model matches the cloud, where it doesn't, and why the gap matters less than you'd think.</description>
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    <pubDate>Tue, 21 Jul 2026 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
    <description>Where the text goes, who can see it, how long it stays, and the questions people quietly stop asking because of it.</description>
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