Apple Silicon is emerging as the dominant force in on-device AI, with frontier labs ditching the cloud in favor of Mac minis and Mac Studios to run powerful AI agents 24/7, thanks to Apple's Neural Engine, unified memory, and unmatched power efficiency driving a major shift toward local AI inference.
Palantir CEO Alex Karp unleashes a fiery attack on Big Tech AI firms, calling the industry 'effing insane' and accusing them of overcharging businesses and exploiting customer data, while Palantir shares surge 9% following his CNBC interview and a new Nvidia partnership announcement.
AI inference chip startup Etched surges to a $5 billion valuation after closing a $500 million funding round, backed by Peter Thiel, Geoffrey Hinton, and Fei-Fei Li, while securing $1 billion in contract orders as it takes direct aim at Nvidia's dominance in the booming AI chip market.
Moondream's new Photon inference engine eliminates GPU idle time through pipelined decoding, boosting vision-language model throughput by up to 35% on NVIDIA B200 hardware and achieving near-realtime inference at approximately 33ms.
Apple VP Paul Meade, who led Vision Pro and AI smart glasses development, is leaving to join OpenAI's rapidly expanding hardware team amid an internal leadership shake-up linked to John Ternus' expected rise to CEO.
Google is restricting Meta's access to its Gemini AI models due to a computing capacity shortage, disrupting Meta's internal AI projects and forcing staff to use AI tokens more efficiently, with several other Google clients also feeling the impact.
Apple Vision Pro engineering VP Paul Meade is leaving Apple to join OpenAI's hardware unit, reuniting with Jony Ive and former Apple colleagues to build next-generation AI-powered devices, as Apple struggles with Vision Pro's poor sales and pivots toward smart glasses.
OpenAI launches the GPT-5.6 model series in limited preview, offering three tiers—Sol, Terra, and Luna—with competitive pricing, record-breaking inference speeds up to 750 tokens per second via Cerebras, and the company's most advanced safety stack yet, featuring over 700,000 GPU hours of automated red-teaming.
Apple shares plunge 6.1% to $275.15 in their biggest single-day drop since April 2025, as a global memory chip shortage driven by AI data center expansion forces price hikes of up to $500 on Macs, iPads, and other products, with analysts warning iPhone Pro models could soon follow with a …
Tech giants including Google, Apple, Microsoft, and Anthropic are uniting at the Confidential Computing Summit in San Francisco to push chip-level security as the definitive solution for controlling AI agents, with Apple making a rare public appearance to reveal Private Cloud Compute details and the Linux Foundation unveiling a tamper-proof …