How Apple's decade-long bet on chips won AI
Apple's decade-long investment in custom silicon, including neural processing and unified memory, has positioned its devices as the preferred platform for AI developers, with Macs dominating frontier …
Apple Inc. is a technology company that develops Apple Silicon chips (M-series, A-series) optimised for on-device machine learning, and integrates AI into iOS, macOS, and its Apple Intelligence features.
Apple's decade-long investment in custom silicon, including neural processing and unified memory, has positioned its devices as the preferred platform for AI developers, with Macs dominating frontier …
Apple has extended its Private Cloud Compute (PCC) to Google Cloud for the first time, running AI workloads on NVIDIA Blackwell GPUs, Intel TDX CPUs, and Google Titan chips. The move allows Apple to u…
Apple and Google are facing pressure to remove 'nudify' apps from their app stores, highlighting a systemic failure in curation amid the generative AI boom. The article argues that technical feasibili…
Researchers from Apple propose amortized maximum inner product search (MIPS) using neural networks to predict optimal keys, significantly improving efficiency on the BEIR benchmark. The method trains …
SpaceX has shown investors a prototype of a sleek, iPhone-like AI device, according to The Wall Street Journal, though Elon Musk denied the report. The device would run on a proprietary OS and integra…
Apple is accelerating security update releases to counter AI-assisted hacking, signaling a shift in cyber threats where time between flaw discovery and exploitation is shrinking. The company pushed a …
Microsoft is planning to lay off thousands of employees next week, cutting fewer than 5,500 roles from sales, consulting, and Xbox divisions, as concerns over AI spending mount. This marks the company…
Paul Meade, Apple's longtime Vision Pro and smart glasses hardware chief, has left the company to join OpenAI. Meade, who led hardware development for Apple's mixed-reality headsets and upcoming smart…
Bank of America strategists warned that AI stock concentration has reached levels seen before previous market bubbles, with the 'AI Big 10' now comprising 41% of the S&P 500, similar to tech and telec…
Apple and Micron are blaming each other for memory price hikes and shortages amid surging AI demand. Apple CEO Tim Cook says memory suppliers are passing huge price increases, while Micron's Sumit Sad…
Cloudflare will block mixed-use AI crawlers from accessing ad-supported websites by default starting September 15, 2026, aiming to give publishers more control over AI data usage. The company also reb…
Apple confirmed a $1 billion/year deal to use Google Gemini as the foundation of Siri across 2 billion devices, replacing OpenAI's ChatGPT. The partnership ended due to OpenAI's latency issues, poor s…
Cloudflare announced it will block mixed-use web crawlers from accessing ad-supported customer websites by default starting September 15, 2026, to give publishers more control over AI content harvesti…
Apple CEO Tim Cook held a virtual meeting with EU tech chief Henna Virkkunen on June 30 to discuss the delayed launch of Siri AI in the European Union, which Apple attributes to regulatory hurdles und…
Bookmarker has launched as a macOS app with on-device AI for organizing links, images, and PDFs. The app offers local, private storage with AI-powered tagging and summarization using Apple Foundation …
Google released its first new smart speaker in six years, the $99.99 Google Home Speaker, designed for its Gemini AI assistant. While the hardware is praised for its design and sound quality, the Gemi…
Meta has retroactively imposed a usage limit on an accessibility feature of its Ray-Ban Meta Glasses, effectively creating a paywall for a hardware product already sold to customers. This move could b…
Apple CEO Tim Cook held 'constructive' talks with EU tech chief Henna Virkkunen on Tuesday about releasing Siri AI in the bloc while complying with digital rules. The enhanced Siri AI will not launch …
Taiwanese investors are taking on heavy debt to amplify stock market gains amid an AI-fueled rally, while margin debt levels reach risky heights. The trend is driven by FOMO and leveraged bets on comp…
Apple's upcoming A20 Pro chip, expected to power the iPhone 18 Pro and iPhone Ultra, will be the company's first 2nm processor, offering higher transistor density and improved performance and power ef…