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Apple is the iPhone maker taking a privacy-first, on-device approach to AI with Apple Intelligence and a revamped Siri. Its A- and M-series silicon makes it a key platform for local AI models. Here is all our coverage of Apple's AI strategy.
NEWHugging Face BlogLiquid AI releases LFM2.5-24B-A2B: an agent model with 2B active parameters
Hugging Face BlogPyTorch 2.15 speeds up MoE models on Mac by 5–6.5x and adds FP8
vc.ruSpaceXAI Bundles Grok, Cursor and X Into a Single Subscription From $8 a Month
TechCrunchApple to unveil HomeView smart hub on Tuesday, Gurman reports
TNWENISA and JRC have started testing Chinese open-weight models, three officials confirm
Hugging Face Daily PapersiPrefBench: iOS agents get 91.6% of actions right but solve only 47.7% of tasks
vc.ruGlobal Smartphone Shipments Fall 20% — Lowest in 14 Years Amid Memory Shortage
Moonshot Kimi BlogMoonshot releases Kimi K3.1 Pro: a 3T open-weight model with a 1M-token context window
ENISA and JRC have started testing Chinese open-weight models, three officials confirm
ENISA and the Commission's Joint Research Centre are testing open models from China. Both bodies have now acknowledged the work, which Politico reported first.
iPrefBench: iOS agents get 91.6% of actions right but solve only 47.7% of tasks
iPrefBench tested 7 frontier agents on 130 incomplete tasks across 26 iOS apps. Action scores reach 91.6%, but weak personalization caps full task success at 47.7%.
Global Smartphone Shipments Fall 20% — Lowest in 14 Years Amid Memory Shortage
Q3 2026 was the worst quarter for global smartphone shipments since 2012: a 20% year-over-year drop driven by a memory shortage. Samsung leads with 23%, Apple…
Intel Poaches Samsung Executive to Build Out Its Chip Foundry Business
Moonshot releases Kimi K3 with 2.8 trillion parameters and a 1M-token context window
NVIDIA RTX Spark N1X Runs a Local Qwen3.8 27B Agent in 18.7 Minutes
Apple's LensVLM compresses long agent context into images and teaches the model to "zoom"
Apple unveils HomeView: a smart home hub with a 7-inch screen for $299
Apple has unveiled HomeView — a smart home hub with a 7-inch screen and Siri AI. Priced at $299, it goes on sale November 13. The device recognizes up to 6 people…
FSF Sponsors GNU Boot, an Open Replacement for BIOS and UEFI
The Free Software Foundation is sponsoring GNU Boot, a fully open alternative to BIOS and UEFI. The project has been in development for over three years and…
Developer Built Lumi with Claude Code: a Free AI-Powered Spotlight for Mac and Windows
Apple Launches HomeView, Its First Smart Display With Siri AI in a Square Body
Alibaba's Qwen-Image-2.1: 7 Billion Parameters, 2K Output, and It Runs on a 16 GB MacBook Air
Venture Investor Names Four Conditions for the Birth of New Super Apps
Apple Research Unveils Minions: A Virtual GPU Cloud Built on Idle Macs
Apple researchers describe Minions, a distributed cloud that pools idle Apple Silicon GPUs in macOS devices to run ML inference at scale.
Apple tested LLMs as translation judges: MQM and ESA are hard for both humans and models
Apple ML Research compared LLM and human quality annotations for machine translation under the MQM and ESA schemes. The title gives the verdict: both sides struggle.