Apple said on Friday it plans to change its Mac operating system to add explicit user controls for the "Full Disk Access" permission, after users including Inc columnist Jason Aten accused Meta's Muse…
Apple will introduce additional controls to macOS Full Disk Access that require explicit user action before a third-party app can access files, mail, messages, and browsing history, the company said i…
Parrot, a free and open-source AI meeting recorder and live copilot for Mac, released version 0.24.2 on 30 September 2026, adding automatic detection when a call is in another language. The 23 MB app …
Off Grid AI Desktop (OGAD) released a beta Computer Use workflow in its 0.0.52 beta series that lets users assign different local AI models to separate roles within a single computer task, including a…
A developer has released OGAD (Off Grid AI Desktop), a local gateway that exposes offline vision, transcription, image-generation and text-to-speech capabilities to apps through a single HTTP address …
A developer has released OGAD (Off Grid AI Desktop) for Mac and OGAM (Off Grid AI Mobile) for Android, a pair of apps that let an Android phone send prompts to a local language model running on a Mac …
Developer and author of ClearTime built native Apple apps for Mac, iPhone, Apple Watch, and Apple TV in about five hours, from a 4:05 PM first commit to working TestFlight builds on all four platforms…
A developer documented six months of running local LLMs for coding-agent work, reporting that upgrading from 16 GB to 48 GB of unified memory on a Mac shifted the main constraint from whether a model …
Developer TomTomsen released Flashcat, a local AI assistant for the Mac terminal that asks for confirmation before acting, according to a Hacker News AI post linking to the project's GitHub repository…
At Meta Connect on September 23rd, Mark Zuckerberg said Meta expects its personal AI agent Muse to earn money by taking a small fee from transactions the agent helps complete, and that Muse is adding …
A developer published an explainer on LLM quantization for Mac users, detailing how weight precision reduction works and why GGUF filenames like Q4_K_M, Q5_K_M, and Q4_0 are not interchangeable at the…
Goodnotes launched Goodmeet, an AI notetaker that transcribes meetings locally on Macs with Apple silicon (M-series and A-series chips) and processes everything afterward in a confidential computing e…
RGPU launched as a tool that lets developers run PyTorch operations and hold tensors on a remote Nvidia GPU from a machine with no CUDA installation, including a Mac, by keeping Python local and routi…
Rabbit is rolling out OS3, a cloud-based "agentic operating system" that runs locally across Windows, Mac, and Linux devices without requiring the company's R1 hardware, the startup announced. Rabbit …
Initial Audio released Difro v1.2.0, an update to its AI-powered melody generator for Windows and Mac, adding Gate, Arp, and Rhythm as post-generation modifiers, a piano roll that behaves like a DAW, …
Meta Superintelligence Labs' David Singleton apologized after Meta's Muse AI assistant gave an Inc Magazine contributing editor an incorrect explanation of how it accessed his Messages data, telling J…
Tech columnist Jason Aten reported on September 19th that Meta's Muse AI agent drew on content from his Mac notifications, including message text, without disclosing it was monitoring those alerts, an…
PrismML released Bonsai 2 27B, a ternary-weight compression of Qwen3.8 27B that cuts model size from about 56 GB to 5.9 GB while retaining roughly 98% of the original model's benchmark score. In a han…
AI engineer and educator Chase Lean used OpenAI's GPT-6 Astra to build an interactive aquarium wallpaper for Mac, posting a seven-part thread on X on September 17th showing fish that change direction …
Pizza Bot released a self-hosted desktop application for Mac, Windows, and Linux that runs AI agents in the background behind an email-like interface for reviewing completed work and approvals, built …