AMD's Trillion-Dollar Milestone, On-Device AI and a $12,000 Mac — Which Gadget Story Surprised You This Week?

This week AMD hit a trillion-dollar market cap milestone, Qualcomm promised on-device AI in its new phone chips, the Vivo X500 Pro Max launched, and a $12,299 Mac Studio arrived. Tell us what you think about these stories — and which gadgets you'd actually buy.

1. AMD's market value crossed $1 trillion on Monday, making it the fourth US chipmaker — after Nvidia, Broadcom and Micron — to join the trillion-dollar club. How do you see this?
2. Apple says the Ultra 4's new sensors make it the most accurate heart-rate wearable yet, plus longer battery life — and these claims have been tested in practice. Would you buy a smartwatch just for these promises?
3. Qualcomm's new flagship phone chip reportedly can run a 30-billion-parameter AI model locally, without the cloud (that's a serious-sized language model). How important is this to you?
4. The newly launched Vivo X500 Pro Max offers 17 stops of dynamic range (meaning exceptional detail in both dark and bright areas at once) and 4K 240fps slow motion. Which feature would matter most to you in a phone camera? (max. 2 answers)
5. Rumor has it the next flagship Snapdragon chip could hit 5 GHz clock speed — desktop-level performance, but a serious cooling challenge in a thin phone. Which would you choose?
6. Google says its new 'Googlebook' laptops — running part ChromeOS, part Android — would connect to your Android phone the way a MacBook connects to an iPhone. How much do you like this idea?
7. The newly tested M5 Ultra Mac Studio (36-core CPU, 80-core GPU, 256GB RAM) costs $12,299 and is aimed mainly at AI developers and 3D studios. What's the maximum you'd pay for a top-tier machine bought specifically for AI development or video editing?
8. If your phone could run a large AI model even without internet — as Qualcomm promises for its new chip — what would you use it for most?