The Information: Apple this past summer canceled the development of a high-performance Mac chip to let some engineers in Israel work on its first AI server chip
Wayne Ma and Qianer Liu, in a piece today for The Information (paywalled up the wazoo, sadly), “Apple Is Working on AI Chip With Broadcom”:
Sources: Meta cancels a premium MR headset codenamed La Jolla, in development since November, that was meant to debut in 2027 to compete with Apple's Vision Pro
Meta responds Ryan Christoffel / 9to5Mac : Meta just canceled its Vision Pro competitor, reportedly it was too pricey to ‘sell well’ Asma Hussain / iThinkDifferent : Meta cancels Vision Pro competitor...
Report: Apple uses microscopic QR codes on iPhone screens to track defects, which helped reduce faulty screen report rates from its suppliers from 30% to 10%
Apple spent millions to add a barcode to iPhone displays in order to save being charged hundreds of millions by manufacturers claiming faulty screens that may not have been. Source: The Information . ...
Source: Apple's budget for training AI is now millions of dollars per day; its conversational AI team Foundational Models has ~16 people led by Ruoming Pang
here's how (report) Asma Hussain / iThinkDifferent : Apple to make Siri smarter using language models in iOS 18 Ed Hardy / Cult of Mac : Apple's conversational AI efforts began 4 years ago X: @winterm...
Sources: Meta delayed releasing AR glasses to at least 2027, after having to cut the microLED display, lidar, 3D projector, and more due to technical setbacks
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Sources: Facebook is developing an ML chip for tasks such as recommending content to users and a data center chip to improve video transcoding
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