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Apple chief executive John Ternus has pushed software chief Craig Federighi to speed up Apple’s AI plans, Mark Gurman reported for Bloomberg on Sunday. Ternus wants Apple to move beyond improving Siri. According to the report, he held a closed-door meeting with Federighi in recent weeks.
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At this point, reading through the latest splashy pledge to use AI for the good of the environment feels like downing a nonalcoholic beer. Admittedly, I’m suspicious from the onset. How can this be good?
It’ll cost you to access Logic Pro’s AI assistant after you reach the monthly usage limit.
Cisco will add Anthropic’s Claude Mythos to AI Defense to plan attacks on customers’ own AI apps and agents, a practice called red teaming. Customers get no open prompt access, every test is logged to a named person, and it comes first to select enterprises.
IBM plans to add Anthropic’s Claude Mythos to Concert Protect so customers can scan their own code for unknown flaws, test which are exploitable and get fixes for developers to approve. It is aiming for early 2027. Mythos itself remains limited to vetted organisations.
Google is investing $17 billion in Wyoming despite election-related opposition, planning 702MW fuel cells, carbon capture technology and substantial community investments.
Baidu unveiled ERNIE Evolve, an AI system that runs its own experiments to improve AI code. Baidu says it sped up its in-development ERNIE-5.5-Flash model by 33.7% on GPUs and more than sixfold on Kunlunxin chips. All figures are Baidu’s own.
ByteDance released Seedream 5.5, an AI image model it says keeps unchanged parts of an image intact over 100 rounds of edits and creates transparent-background assets. It is rolling out in ByteDance’s Chinese apps. The performance claims are ByteDance’s own.
The Commerce Department stopped its investigation into Megaspeed after Nvidia’s general counsel contacted the agents running it, Ana Swanson and Devlin Barrett reported for The New York Times. The case moved to the Justice Department.
Meta has released Muse Ember, its smallest and cheapest AI model so far, the company announced on Monday. Meta built it for the small jobs AI agents repeat all day. These include calling tools, coding subtasks, routing requests, pulling out data and parsing long documents.
Anthropic has released Claude Fable 5.2 and Claude Mythos 5.2, the company announced on Monday. They are new versions of its most powerful AI models. Both are faster than the 5.1 versions from September, and Fable is cheaper.
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