Apple overhauls Apple Intelligence with Google Foundation Models, enabling on-device AI capabilities and multimodal support. Users can opt out of Google integration, but it's unclear if this can be completely disabled.
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Apple Intelligence is a helpful AI integrated into Apple devices for personal needs, protecting user privacy through on-device processing. It uses Private Cloud Compute for complex requests while maintaining user data security.
xAI partnered with Anthropic and Google, providing them with huge capacity, and the revenue flows into SpaceX ahead of its IPO. This deal gives xAI a competitive advantage in datacentre buildout and helps alleviate compute shortages for Anthropic and Google.
English Heritage is a charity that cares for over a million objects and historic sites in England, aiming to connect people to the past and each other. They are seeking a Head of Stonehenge to lead a team and deliver exceptional visitor experiences while driving financial performance.
Xiaomi MiMo-V2.5-Pro-UltraSpeed breaks 1000 tokens/s decode speed on a 1-trillion-parameter model. It achieves this through extreme model-system codesign with TileRT, delivering 10× the generation speed of MiMo-V2.5-Pro.
Pesticides banned in the EU were found in everyday food products in the Netherlands, France, Austria, and Germany. Brussels plans to weaken food safety regulations, putting consumers at risk.
Postgres 19 introduces query advice modules pg_plan_advice and pg_stash_advice, allowing users to provide guidance to the planner without embedding hints in SQL. These modules address long-standing concerns about hints, including maintenance and upgrade headaches, and provide a more controlled and expressive way to influence query planning.
Core AI helps build, run, and deploy AI models in apps using Apple silicon. It includes tools for model preparation, debugging, and performance monitoring with Xcode and the Core AI Debugger app.
GoGoGrandparent's mission is to help older adults live independently by tailoring on-demand apps to their needs. They're hiring a Senior Backend Engineer to design scalable systems and improve the lives of seniors.
The author describes a shortcut to improve database performance using a technique called continuation-passing style (CPS), which allows operators to compose into tightly fused operations automatically. This approach is used in the Prela database, which maps cleanly to both a logical Entity/Relationship data model and a columnar physical storage, and achieves fast columnar execution when compiled.
The user successfully ported coreboot to a ThinkPad x61 using a Large Language Model (LLM) to reverse engineer the firmware, which would have taken months to accomplish manually. This achievement demonstrates the feasibility of using LLMs for reverse engineering firmware, potentially making it easier to develop open-source alternatives to closed-source firmware.
The Go compiler targets a 20-year-old instruction set by default, but using a higher microarchitecture level can improve performance. Upgrading to level v2 or higher can result in significant speed gains, especially for operations like population count and set operations.
You're building software tools with a minimal toolchain, using a custom harness with dagger for efficiency. You're also creating a personal knowledge base with markdown search and wiki powered by Typesense for better outcomes.
Cells come in various shapes and sizes due to constraints on surface area-to-volume ratio and diffusion. A cell's size is determined by balancing tradeoffs between volume, diffusion, surface area, and energy.
FrontierCode is a benchmark that measures AI models' ability to write high-quality, maintainable code by assessing end-to-end code quality, correctness, and mergeability. Current models struggle to meet this new standard, with even the best-performing model achieving only 13.4% on the most challenging tasks.
UK government's plan to scan all UK devices for nudity will not safeguard children but endanger everyone and strengthen tech giants' control. This proposal will lead to mass surveillance and censorship, expanding to target "threats" and "harmful content" beyond nudity.
Two users are offline. Both add content to the same empty note. They come back online, sync finishes, and one user’s edits seem to disappear. There is no error, and the data is not actually gone from history. But note.get("body") can only return one Text container. The other container was created concurrently and still exists in history, but it is no longer visible in the current ...
Ticketmaster maintains its market dominance through exclusive deals with venues and artists, vendor lock-in, and a business model that allows it to take a large cut of ticket sales. The company's monopoly is also perpetuated by the complicity of venues and artists who benefit from its services.
The author proposes a concept called Thinnernet, which aims to provide a predictable user experience across different internet speeds by minimizing data transfer and prioritizing essential data. This idea is inspired by Steve Jobs' focus on user experience and is seen as a necessary adaptation to the internet's current limitations and the need for a more energy-efficient way to access the web.
Intuned Agent generates and maintains production-ready Playwright code for scraping, crawling, and automations. It handles stealth, auth, scheduling, and scale, allowing users to write code in their preferred language.
The author argues that the AI bubble is unsustainable due to its massive compute commitments and revenue requirements. To justify the current infrastructure, AI companies must grow at an astonishing rate, with Anthropic and OpenAI needing to make $400 billion in annual revenue by 2030.
Aurélia and others are using social media less for personal interaction and more for entertainment, with many preferring to watch professionally made content from people they don't know. Social media platforms are evolving into passive entertainment platforms, with users giving information for commercial gain in exchange for tailored content.
Apple is offering lower-cost AI tools to indie developers by waiving infrastructure fees for those earning under 2 million. This move reflects a growing reality in the AI industry where experimentation is no longer cheap and developers are tightening their belts.
Company announces confidential S-1 filing, expecting it to leak, and is not yet deciding on a public listing timing. This announcement does not constitute a securities offer or solicitation.
This article explains how to use Dune, a build system for OCaml, to create and manage OCaml projects. It covers setting up a project, building and running code, testing, and generating documentation using Dune and its tools.
A federal judge blocked President Trump's $100,000 H1-B visa fee, saving hundreds of education jobs in Alaska. The ruling could help rural schools hire international teachers, who make up 50% of some districts' staff.
The user discusses the ruliology of competition, specifically how finite state machines compete in games like match-or-not and prisoner's dilemma, and how adaptive evolution can lead to winning strategies. The user finds that winning machines are not necessarily more complex, and that machines with more states can systematically do better than those with fewer states, but the relationship ...