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'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 …
Avast One delivers excellent malware and phishing protection for Mac with minimal performance impact, but its fragmented subscription model and underwhelming AI Assistant detract from the experience. …
Google launched Gemini Spark, its AI agent assistant, on Mac via the Gemini desktop app, adding integrations with Google Tasks, Keep, and third-party apps like Canva and Dropbox. The macOS release pos…
Jamf announced general availability of AI Governance for Mac, enabling IT and security teams to discover actively-used AI tools, enforce policy controls, and generate audit-ready reporting. The new ca…
Mocca, a new Mac email client, uses a local on-device AI to classify mail, curate inboxes, and execute plain-English rules without sending data to the cloud. The app connects to existing inboxes via I…
SpeechFlow, a dictation tool that rewrites speech in the user's own style, is offering a free beta. The tool works across inbox, docs, and AI tools, formatting messy speech into structured text. Users…
Apple has raised prices on most Mac and iPad models due to a memory crisis driven by AI data centers consuming vast memory supplies, with only iPhone and Apple Watch spared for now. The company held o…
A developer created Foveon, a Mac app that uses a modified U-Net deep learning model to transform photos from any Bayer-array camera into the distinctive look of a Sigma DP2 Merrill Foveon X3 sensor, …
Soulver released version 4 of its natural-language calculator app for iPhone, iPad, and Mac, featuring over 50 improvements including a trip-planning workflow, tag-based statistical calculations, and …
A technical analysis compares Mac hardware, Nvidia RTX 5090, and cloud services for running local large language models in 2026, warning consumers about spec-sheet traps that waste money.…
Apple plans to skip high-end M6 Mac chips and instead focus on an AI-focused M7 line, according to a Bloomberg report. The shift prioritizes artificial intelligence capabilities over raw performance f…
AirPosture, an open-source iOS app, uses AirPods' hidden sensors to provide real-time posture coaching during work and workouts. The app runs in the background, mirrors user movements with a bear avat…
Apple rolled out significant price increases across most of its products due to AI-driven RAM and storage constraints, but spared the iPhone, Apple Watch, and AirPods lines from any price hikes. The c…
A supply-chain attack on the @mastra AI-agent ecosystem saw an attacker republish 141 packages with a malicious dependency that targeted crypto wallets. The incident highlights how AI coding tools lik…
MoodLens launched a Windows app for its AI-human collaboration platform, offering task management, AI workflows, and team discussions in one workspace. The company claims the product's layered AI syst…
An OpenAI partner engineer documented a manual process for migrating OpenAI Codex Desktop state between Macs, preserving active threads, local state, installed skills, plugins, and working context. Th…
A new article argues that running large language models locally on consumer hardware is now feasible, but notes that 52% of PCs have 16GB RAM or less, limiting model size. The author explains that Mac…
Z.ai released GLM-5.2, a 744B-parameter open model with 40B active parameters and a 1M context window, claiming it matches or exceeds proprietary models like Claude 4.8 Opus and GPT-5.5. Unsloth relea…
Speechmark, a new Mac app, provides on-device meeting notes with automatic speaker separation, decisions, and action items, keeping all data locally. The one-time purchase app integrates with Claude D…
Weeve, a European company, launched a local-first AI memory tool that records, transcribes, and summarizes conversations directly on a user's Mac without cloud processing or bots. The tool ensures dat…