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Earlier this month, Apple announced that its new Apple Watches will have the ability to continuously listen to every spoken word they detect and create…
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Earlier this month, Apple announced that its new Apple Watches will have the ability to continuously listen to every spoken word they detect and create…
New automatic-speech-recognition model. Tags: parakeet_tdt, ternary, parakeet, tdt, speech-recognition, cpu, apple-silicon, automatic-speech-recognition
Apple Store architect Ron Johnson says Apple's secret sauce has always been its people.
Dormant tree pruning is labor-intensive yet essential for maintaining modern high-productivity fruit orchards. In this work, we focus on pruning of modern planar tree training systems - V-Trellis apples and UFO cherries - where trunks and primary branches are trained into approximately planar walls. We introduce an end-to-end pipeline to learn a closed-loop visuomotor controller for robotic pruning. This controller is trained entirely using simulation and synthetically generated data and deployed in real orchards in a zero-shot manner. The pipeline comprises synthetic generation of planar orchard tree meshes, construction of a physics-based orchard simulator, automated collection of successful pruning trajectories via motion planning, and policy learning with a novel hybrid reinforcement-learning algorithm that combines offline demonstrations with online simulated rollouts. The controller uses optical-flow inputs from a wrist-mounted camera - avoiding the need for full 3D-reconstruction - and continuously guides the cutter through cluttered branch environments to a specified cutpoint with correct tool orientation. In exhaustive simulated task-space evaluations over 3,000 pruning points, the policy attains 49.9% success on V-Trellis apples and 46.0% on UFO cherries. We validate the learned controller across 38 physical trials - comprising 28 outdoor field trials in commercial and experimental orchards and 10 indoor laboratory tests - demonstrating zero-shot sim-to-real transfer. The learned policy also outperforms a classical RRT-Connect baseline on physical hardware in laboratory trials.
Today, I’m talking with Mark Gurman, who is the world’s best-sourced Apple reporter — both as Bloomberg’s chief Apple correspondent and the host of the…
Apple is paying $250 million to settle claims that it failed to deliver an AI-upgraded Siri - and now, eligible iPhone owners can submit a…
Today on Decoder, we’ve got the first of a two-part series on the future of business, and I’m talking with Jonathan Kanter, the former antitrust…
New text-generation model. Tags: mlx, prism_hadamard_qwen35, ternary, 2-bit, cuda, metal, on-device, hybrid-attention
Choosing the right vector store for your Amazon Bedrock Knowledge Bases RAG application affects performance and cost. This post compares Amazon OpenSearch Service, Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL with pgvector, and Amazon S3 Vectors across three RAG use cases, with benchmarks and a practical selection framework.
Today, I’m talking with Mustafa Suleyman, the CEO of Microsoft AI. As you’re no doubt aware, the biggest story in tech right now is the…
New text-generation model. Tags: mlx, structured-generation, parallel-decoding, constrained-decoding, apple-silicon, classification, json, text-generation
According to The Information, Apple is planning to get back into the server game and might just pair up with NVIDIA to make it happen.…
From Apple's repeatedly delayed Siri AI to OpenAI's messy 'super app' launch, here's a look at the AI projects that shut down or missed expectations.
Capable open-weight models make local coding and reasoning attractive, but their context and execution state strain laptop memory. We present JustFit, an MLX-based inference runtime that combines KVExec for compressed KV execution, PhaseSwap for component residency, and StateTrans for state-preserving serving transitions. These mechanisms fuse reconstruction and coordinate just-in-time materialization and release, independently of model-weight quantization. In full-execution capacity tests on a 24 GiB M4 Pro MacBook running Qwen3.8-27B MXFP4, three independent runs complete 196,608 input and 16,384 output tokens, increasing completed single-request context from the mlx-vlm baseline's 30,720 positions to 212,992 (6.93x); a separate two-request run retains 229,376 positions in aggregate. In separate performance tests, a 32K-input, 64-output probe reaches 19.11 tokens/s, and a repeated 32K+6K workload has a median peak process footprint of 16,374 MiB. The integrated runtime answers 29 of 30 AIME 2026 problems correctly, showing how compact state and lifetime-aware execution expand local serving capacity while supporting extended generated reasoning.
Glass Imaging was founded by a pair of former Apple engineers who previously led the team that developed Apple's Portrait Mode.