Artificial Intelligence

OpenAI calls trade secret dispute ‘a mess of Apple’s own making’

Apple yesterday presented what it said was “shocking evidence” based on analysis of a MacBook owned by Chang Liu, a…

Apple @ Work Podcast: The human side of AI adoption in the enterprise

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Gradium AI Releases New Default TTS Model: 81.0% Hard-Case Pass Rate at 216 ms Time-to-First-Audio

Speed and accuracy usually pull against each other in text-to-speech. Gradium AI’s new default model reports both: an 81.0% human-rated pass rate on 500 hard sentences across five languages, at 216 ms P50 time-to-first-audio on Coval. The evaluation set is open on Hugging Face under CC BY 4.0.

Introducing @huggingface/kernels: 200+ WebGPU Kernels for Local AI

Keenable AI Open-Sources NEEDLE: A Live Search Benchmark That Rebuilds Its Query Set Every Hour

How do you benchmark a web search API when the thing being tested can read the answer key? A search agent has a fetch tool. If the gold labels sit in a public dataset, the agent can download them mid-evaluation and skip retrieval entirely.

How I’m using Codex and ChatGPT on my Mac

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Google AI Releases TimesFM-3: A 330M Parameter Zero-Shot Foundation Model For Multivariate Time Series Forecasting

Google Research has released TimesFM-3, a 330 million parameter time series foundation model that forecasts multiple related series in a single forward pass.

Google finds another way to push Search users to AI Mode

AI Overviews are automatically expanding for some searches.

The Hugging Face hack could indicate cultural issues at OpenAI

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iOS 27 beta 8 now available as Apple tests major Siri AI upgrade

Apple has released the eighth iOS 27 beta for developer testing. iOS 27 beta 8 continues Apple’s summer beta cycle…

Google is making AI Overviews even bigger on some search queries

As AI continues to be a bigger and bigger part of Google Search, the company is making AI Overviews bigger…

Android 17 QPR2 Beta 4 puts AI agents under supervision with new dashboard

A new dashboard tracks all agents installed on your device.

Lowest-Latency Inference APIs for Voice and Realtime Agents: A Time to First Token TTFT-First Benchmark

Voice agents fail on latency long before they fail on intelligence. Time to first token is the metric most teams use to choose an inference API, and it is the right starting point and the wrong stopping point.

Google AI Introduces EnvHarness: A Programmable Layer That Turns Static Agent Environments Into Adaptive Training Worlds

Google Cloud AI Research, with Washington University in St. Louis and UNC Chapel Hill, has released EnvHarness, an Apache-2.0 layer that turns a static agent benchmark into one that adapts to the policy training on it.

Anthropic Opens a Research Preview of the Model Hardware Standard (MHS): A Shared Specification for AI Agents to Safely Operate Physical Devices

Anthropic has opened a research preview of the Model Hardware Standard (MHS), a shared driver specification that lets AI agents discover and safely operate physical devices.

Apple CarPlay gaining a new AI chatbot app before Siri AI arrives

Since iOS 26.4, Apple has supported conversational apps on CarPlay. This category includes AI chatbot apps. Siri AI joins the…

Meet ‘Code-as-World’: An Agentic Loop That Rewrites Real Videos Into Executable MuJoCo Physics Programs

Code-as-World recovers editable MuJoCo scene code from real video, then uses those verified worlds to train physical reasoning.

Building Custom Batched Ensemble Weather Forecasting with NVIDIA Earth2Studio

In this tutorial, we build an ensemble weather forecasting workflow with NVIDIA Earth2Studio. We install the required Earth2Studio components while preserving Colab’s existing CUDA-enabled PyTorch environment, load the FCN prognostic model, and retrieve atmospheric initial conditions from GFS.

Apple will be launching its first pair of smart glasses next year: Here’s what’s coming

As soon as next year, Apple will be debuting its first pair of AI-powered smart glasses. They’ll integrate Visual Intelligence…

Google AI Releases Gemini Omni 1.1 Flash: 40-Second Scene Extension, First/Last Frame Control, and 4K Upscaling

We look at Gemini Omni 1.1 Flash, Google’s production update to its native multimodal video generation and editing model.

Apple @ Work: Parallels Desktop 27 brings OpenGL 4.3 and AI acceleration to Apple Silicon

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ChatGPT, Gemini, and Claude quietly get worse over time. This hidden setting fixes them

Your favorite AI chatbot might be remembering a little too much.

Hugging Face Unveils Microduck: A $399 Open-Source 25 cm Biped You Train with Reinforcement Learning

Pollen Robotics, the Bordeaux robotics team at Hugging Face, opened pre-orders for Microduck — a 25 cm bipedal robot where every movement is a neural policy trained in MuJoCo and exported to ONNX.

GLM-5.3-Flash vs Qwen3.8-Flash-Next: Two Chinese AI Labs Independently Converge on the Same Model Architecture

Z.ai and Qwen independently shipped near-identical architectures: 3:1 linear hybrids, compressed indexers, gated residuals, and Muon training.