… Two levels of AI Earlier this year, Apple announced it had signed a multi-year deal with Google to use its Gemini model as the basis for that Siri update. Last month, though, we heard reports that Apple was having trouble cramming all of Gemini’s features into completely local on-device models. …
… This will mark the speech as AI-generated, and there is currently no way to remove that. Ryan Whitwam is a senior technology reporter at Ars Technica, covering the ways Google, AI, and mobile technology continue to change the world. …
… The newly independent entity is being rebranded as Fenris Creations, which will continue to operate as normal without any restructuring or layoffs, the company said. “Something that already behaves like a living world” In today’s announcement, Fenris and DeepMind said that EVE Online presents “a un… …
CUPERTINO, California—Apple announced earlier this year that its long-delayed Siri upgrade, announced this week as “Siri AI,” would use Google’s Gemini language models . …
… When conducting tests, CAISI frequently gains access to models with “reduced or removed safeguards,” which CAISI said allowed them to more “thoroughly evaluate national security-related capabilities and risks.” Through the evaluations, the government will also gain a better understanding of model c… …
… But before that deal, Niantic publicly announced plans to use scans from millions of Pokémon Go players along with data captured by users of the company’s Scaniverse app to train and develop a “large geospatial model”—a 3D model of the physical world trained on the geolocated images provided by app… …
… Even if phones had faster AI processing, they lack the RAM to keep enormous models in memory. Even the largest AI models are still middling assistants, and that makes local AI very challenging. The AI models that run on phones are physically smaller, featuring at most a few billion parameters. …
… Mathematician Tim Gowers wrote that when he first heard about the AI’s result, he thought it had proved the theorem. “I spent the evening adjusting my world view: If the AI could come up with a proof like that, then maybe it would be all over for mathematicians very soon.” But the next morning, Gow… …
… So it’s only fitting that Google should offer some less RAM-hungry local AI models. The company has announced the release of a new Gemma 4 model that fills a gap in the lineup that launched earlier this year. …
… There’s Microsoft Scout , an OpenClaw-based “Autopilot” agent that can hook into Microsoft 365 data to perform tasks for users; several new AI models ; an expanded preview of “ Codename MDASH ,” which is a “multi-model agentic scanning system” meant to detect and fix software vulnerabilities. …