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Know What Your Goals Are and Why

https://dontbreakprod.com/posts/know-what-your-goals-are-and-why
1•dorkrawk•5m ago•0 comments

Google's harmful and careless use of AI

1•bbarnett•6m ago•1 comments

Bank of Canada Identifies Technical Path for Retail CBDC in New Research Paper

https://www.coindesk.com/business/2025/07/04/bank-of-canada-identifies-technical-path-for-retail-cbdc-in-new-research-paper
2•PaulHoule•9m ago•0 comments

Ant Mill

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ant_mill
1•piniiforever•9m ago•0 comments

What My Mother Didn't Talk About (2020)

https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/karolinawaclawiak/what-my-mother-didnt-talk-about-karolina-waclawiak
1•NaOH•9m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Empromptu.ai – Agentic AI Building AI Apps

1•anaempromptu•12m ago•0 comments

PSA: Part of your Kagi subscription fee goes to a Russian company (Yandex)

https://ounapuu.ee/posts/2025/07/17/kagi/
2•LorenDB•12m ago•0 comments

Don't Fall for AI: Reasons for Writers to Reject Slop

https://mythcreants.com/blog/dont-fall-for-ai-nine-reasons-for-writers-to-reject-slop/
2•BerislavLopac•14m ago•0 comments

A £3.93/mo Nomad‑backed learning lab: Next.js · .NET · Postgres on a budget

https://craig.banach.dev/musings/4-pound-learning-lab
1•craigbanach•15m ago•1 comments

Vibe Game Dev: Nimble Fox Unity AI Assistant [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F4l2ULvMsko
2•lastdong•16m ago•0 comments

Telnyx AI Agents now support native integration with MCP servers

1•maevesentner•17m ago•0 comments

Grep a million GitHub repositories via MCP

https://vercel.com/blog/grep-a-million-github-repositories-via-mcp
2•cramforce•17m ago•0 comments

MirageLSD: The First Live-Stream Diffusion AI Video Model

https://about.decart.ai/publications/mirage
2•jasondavies•18m ago•0 comments

Microsoft Names Threat Actors

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/unified-secops-platform/microsoft-threat-actor-naming
2•grepcat•22m ago•0 comments

MirageLSD: The First Live-Stream Video Diffusion Model (∞-Generation, 0-Latency)

https://mirage.decart.ai/
3•dnnssl2•23m ago•5 comments

Show HN: I made EmojiAssets: click an emoji, get favicons and Apple touch icons

https://www.emojiassets.com
1•volukren•23m ago•0 comments

The Illusion of Biosafety During SARS-CoV-2 Research

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/390171996_The_Illusion_of_Biosafety_During_SARS-CoV-2_Research_Multiple_Apparent_Occult_Lab-Acquired_Infections_Are_Identified_including_from_Synthetic_Infectious_Clones_Under_BSL-3_Conditions_at_a_Premier_US-b
3•hggh•24m ago•0 comments

Show HN: I built a context-engineering CLI/MCP tool

https://github.com/jerpint/context-llemur
2•jerpint•24m ago•0 comments

Show HN: FavBox is a local-firs browser extension for bookmark management

https://github.com/dd3v/favbox
2•dm_dd3v•25m ago•0 comments

Trump's Impact on International Student Enrollment

https://spectrum.ieee.org/trump-international-students
3•rbanffy•25m ago•0 comments

Your Boss Still Thinks AI Is a Fancy Calculator

https://substack.com/home/post/p-168583724
1•anonym29•25m ago•1 comments

Ask HN: Has anyone ever manage to Chromecast from Chrome Mobile browser?

1•01jonny01•25m ago•0 comments

AWS Lambda silent crash – a platform failure, not an application bug

https://aaronstuyvenberg.com/posts/does-lambda-have-a-silent-crash
3•felineflock•30m ago•0 comments

Wave 11: Just Keep Shipping

https://windsurf.com/blog/windsurf-wave-11
1•pr337h4m•32m ago•0 comments

Comparing Claude Code vs. OpenCode (and testing different models)

https://www.andreagrandi.it/posts/comparing-claude-code-vs-opencode-testing-different-models/
2•andreagrandi•33m ago•0 comments

Show HN: TrueSift – AI-Powered Real-Time Fact-Checking Chrome Extension

https://www.truesift.dev/
1•terrib1e•36m ago•0 comments

Substack raises $100M at $1.1B valuation

https://techcrunch.com/2025/07/17/substack-raises-100m-from-chernin-group-andreessen-horowitz-skims-ceo-and-more/
4•1zael•39m ago•1 comments

Anthropic tightens usage limits for Claude Code – without telling users

https://techcrunch.com/2025/07/17/anthropic-tightens-usage-limits-for-claude-code-without-telling-users/
36•mfiguiere•42m ago•15 comments

To survive the AI age, the web needs a new business model

https://www.economist.com/leaders/2025/07/17/to-survive-the-ai-age-the-web-needs-a-new-business-model
2•sien•43m ago•1 comments

Are We Alone?

https://www.writervivek.com/2025/07/Are-we-alone.html
4•totaldude87•49m ago•0 comments
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Apple Intelligence Foundation Language Models Tech Report 2025

https://machinelearning.apple.com/research/apple-foundation-models-tech-report-2025
105•2bit•3h ago

Comments

leot•2h ago
The dozens of "contributors" being presented in random order is, one would suppose, an anti-poaching tactic?
zamadatix•2h ago
It's hard to know what it isn't for certain but there are many other reasons papers list contributors in a flat structure (be it random or alphabetical order). Particularly with large numbers of collaborators.
JKCalhoun•1h ago
"References" section sort of narrows the field anyway.
rafram•1h ago
Not very hard to look people up on LinkedIn and figure out who the core researchers are. I think this is just a very surface-level overview paper that encompasses a bunch of different research projects conducted by different teams, and it would be difficult to order the contributors in any meaningful way.
browningstreet•1h ago
As someone whose last name is near the end of the alphabet, that's not the first presumption I had seeing that page.
ml-anon•1h ago
Well meta already got Ruoming so he can obviously give them a ranked list of who to grab.

Most of his team are former Google brain so GDM knows who is good.

JKCalhoun•1h ago
I wonder if we'll see these models running on the phone (aiPhone) hardware in the future.
kingnothing•1h ago
> The new Foundation Models framework gives access to developers to start creating their own reliable, production-quality generative AI features with the approximately 3B parameter on-device language model. The ∼3B language foundation model at the core of Apple Intelligence excels at a diverse range of text tasks like summarization, entity extraction, text understanding, refinement, short dialog, generating creative content, and more. While we have specialized our on-device model for these tasks, it is not designed to be a chatbot for general world knowledge. We encourage app developers to use this framework to design helpful features tailored to their apps
Zee2•1h ago
> a ∼3B-parameter on-device model
ThomasBb•1h ago
There are even already some local AFM to Open AI API bridge project on GitHub - that lets you point basically any Open AI compatible client at the local models. Super nice for basic summarisation and completions.
JKCalhoun•1h ago
I was worried "device" was a Mac mini, not an iPhone. (I already have been running models on my MacBook Pro.)
floam•1h ago
It does. You can use it directly on iOS 26 beta - without writing a line of code I can toy with the on-device model through Shortcuts on my 16 Pro. It’s not meant to be a general purpose chatbot… but it can work as a general purpose chatbot in airplane mode which is a novel experience.

https://share.icloud.com/photos/018AYAPEm06ALXciiJAsLGyuA

https://share.icloud.com/photos/0f9IzuYQwmhLIcUIhIuDiudFw

The above took like 3 seconds to generate. That little box that says On-device can be flipped between On-device, Private Cloud Compute, and ChatGPT.

Their LLM uses the ANE sipping battery and leaves the GPU available.

bigyabai•1h ago
It would be interesting to see the tok/s comparison between the ANE and GPU for inference. I bet these small models are a lot friendlier than the 7B/12B models that technically fit on a phone but won't accelerate well without a GPU.
gleenn•1h ago
I thought the big difference between the GPU and ANE was that you couldn't use the ANE to train. Does the GPU actually perform faster during inference as well? Is that because the ANE are designed more for efficiency or is there another bigger reason?
wmf•1h ago
GPUs are usually faster for inference simply because they have more ALUs/FPUs but they are also less efficient.
JKCalhoun•1h ago
Wild to see what improvements might come if there is additional hardware support in future Apple Silicon chips.
ivape•14m ago
What’s the cost of pointing it to Private Cloud Compute? It can’t be free, can it?
alwillis•43m ago
As someone mentioned, this model is available in the beta version of iOS 26; it's also part of macOS 26, iPadOS 26 and visionOS 26. Anyone with a free developer account can install the developer betas; the public beta is expected next week.

There's a WWDC video "Meet the Foundation Models Framework" [1].

[1]: https://developer.apple.com/videos/play/wwdc2025/286

jonplackett•1h ago
Every time I see a paper from Apple I just feel like, OK so why isn’t my iPhone actually doing any of this yet?

Why give this to developers if you haven’t been able to get Siri to use it yet? Does it not work or something? I guess we’ll find out when devs start trying to make stuff

bayindirh•55m ago
> why isn’t my iPhone actually doing any of this yet?

Probably Apple is trying to distill the models so they can run on your phone locally. Remember, most, if not all, of Siri is running on your device. There's no round trip whatsoever for voice processing.

Also, for larger models, there will be throwaway VMs per request, so building that infra takes time.

jonplackett•49m ago
It says there’s 2 models - one local. It’s already released to app developers to use locally I think (it was in the keynote for WWDC).
geoffpado•39m ago
The model now available to developers (in beta, not in released versions of iOS) is the same model that powers stuff like the much-maligned notification summaries from iOS 18. So your phone does have features that are powered by this stuff… you may just not be particularly overwhelmed by those features.
imoverclocked•49m ago
> why isn’t my iPhone actually doing any of this yet?

What exactly are you referring to? Models do run on iPhone and there are features that take advantage of it, today.

perfmode•46m ago
> We believe in training our models using diverse and high-quality data. This includes data that we’ve licensed from publishers, curated from publicly available or open- sourced datasets, and publicly available information crawled by our web-crawler, Applebot.

> We do not use our users’ private personal data or user interactions when training our foundation models. Additionally, we take steps to apply filters to remove certain categories of personally identifiable information and to exclude profanity and unsafe material.

> Further, we continue to follow best practices for ethical web crawling, including following widely-adopted robots.txt protocols to allow web publishers to opt out of their content being used to train Apple’s generative foundation models. Web publishers have fine-grained controls over which pages Applebot can see and how they are used while still appearing in search results within Siri and Spotlight.

Respect.

bitpush•27m ago
When Apple inevitably partners with OpenAI or Anthropic, which by their definition isnt doing "ethical crawling", I wonder how I should be reading that.
jhickok•14m ago
They already partnered with OpenAI, right?
DSingularity•3m ago
To use their APIs at a discount, so what?
JacobJack•41m ago
I'd really like to be able to use this 3B model on my little 4GB GPU card! It looks very capable for a reasonable weight. Maybe one day on HhuggingFace
frankfrank13•33m ago
AFAICT this is the first commercial model trying to be marketed as responsibly-sourced. Love it, but it also seems like the noise around this issue has died down. Is this for legal cover? Or more apple-privacy marketing
Daedren•22m ago
Stockholders are suing them over Apple Intelligence. Definitely legal cover.
jiehong•23m ago
Looks nice. I just wish they’d improve the models behind dictation on both iPhone and Mac to have better accuracy and on the fly multiple language transcription.