A considerable segment of Apple's customer base own more than one of the company's products, and their loyalty is a better indicator of the company's success than just numbers. Apple device adoption holds steady among US consumers Apple's hardware ecosystem is expansive and diverse, encapsulating a range of devices from iPhones to Mac computers, each with its dedicated user base. However, when analyzing the penetration of these devices among US consumers, the numbers reveal more than...
Apple could run its LLM on-device to power iOS 18's AI features, helping speed up the response time for a better user experience. (via Cult of Mac - Apple news, rumors, reviews and how-tos)
When WWDC kicks off on June 10, there will be a lot of attention on Apple’s plans for new artificial intelligence features. In the latest edition of his Power On newsletter, Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman reiterates that one of Apple’s primary focuses will be on privacy and on-device intelligence. more
Apple today released several open source large language models (LLMs) that are designed to run on-device rather than through cloud servers. Called OpenELM (Open-source Efficient Language Models), the LLMs are available on the Hugging Face Hub, a community for sharing AI code. As outlined in a white paper [PDF], there are eight total OpenELM models, four of which were pre-trained using the CoreNet library, and four instruction tuned models. Apple uses a layer-wise scaling strategy that is...
Two former Apple employees who worked for the company as cybersecurity researchers are now launching their own startup. Called DoubleYou, the startup is focused on helping creators of cybersecurity products protect iOS devices and Macs. more
UPDATE (4/23/24): Warner Robins Police say the man wanted in connection with a hit-and-run last month is now in custody. According to a news release, Dustin Nelson turned himself in around 1:30 Tuesday afternoon. “He is being processed on warrants for felony hit and run and failure to report an accident with injury,” the release stated. UPDATE (4/12/24): The Warner
By Chuck Morris Click here for updates on this story NASHVILLE, Tennessee (WSMV) — A Tennessee State University football player was killed walking across Gallatin Pike early Sunday morning by a hit and run driver, Metro Nashville Police said. The university’s athletics department confirmed that Chazan Page, 20, died after being struck by the car.
By Chuck Morris Click here for updates on this story NASHVILLE, Tennessee (WSMV) — A Tennessee State University football player was killed walking across Gallatin Pike early Sunday morning by a hit and run driver, Metro Nashville Police said. The university’s athletics department confirmed that Chazan Page, 20, died after being struck by the car.
Apple's AI push in iOS 18 is rumored to focus on privacy with processing done directly on the iPhone, that won't connect to cloud services. Siri is expected to get a big upgrade with iOS 18 Over the past few months, we've heard a lot about Apple's endeavors in Artificial Intelligence and the features it aims to introduce later this year with iOS 18 and macOS 15. Various sources have all claimed that Apple would introduce AI-related enhancements. It looks like the initial batch of...
In terms of performance, the OpenLLM results shared by Apple show that the new models perform fairly well, especially the one with 3 billion parameters.
Apple today seeded the third betas of upcoming iOS 17.5 and iPadOS 17.5 updates to developers for testing purposes, with the software coming a week after Apple released the second betas. Registered developers are able to opt into the betas by opening up the Settings app, going to the Software Update section, tapping on the "Beta Updates" option, and toggling on the iOS 17 or iPadOS 17 Developer Beta. An Apple ID associated with a developer account is required to download and install the...
Apple today seeded the second betas of upcoming iOS 17.5 and iPadOS 17.5 updates to developers for testing purposes, with the software coming two weeks after Apple released the first betas. Registered developers are able to opt into the betas by opening up the Settings app, going to the Software Update section, tapping on the "Beta Updates" option, and toggling on the iOS 17 or iPadOS 17 Developer Beta. An Apple ID associated with a developer account is required to download and install the...