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  • Apple keeps pushing AI industry forward with more open-source models

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    Is Apple's model designed to be small enough to run natively on an iPhone? Are all the other models you mentioned small enough to run on an iPhone? (It's a sincere question; I don't know the answer. It sounds like you are comparing Apples to Oranges.)
    Max_Troll isn't a good source of accurate information, so let me answer that one for you: Apple's models are designed to be as much on-device as possible, but of course the whole of human experience and knowledge isn't going to fit, so some tasks will be quickly handed to Apple's Private Cloud Compute online if needed.

    For queries that involve specialized knowledge (like medical or legal advice, as examples, or other specialty areas), Apple will offer to send your query privately to OpenAI for an answer, but that requires your permission each time its needed. OpenAI doesn't get to collect your data, or train itself on your queries.

    For more about how this all works, I'd suggest watching the "Apple Intelligence" video on Apple's YouTube channel rather than the entire keynote.

    All that said, this article is about LLM and dataset models Apple is offering the wider AI community, not the specific models it will use on any of its own products. Apple has figured out how to create models that are modest in size AND use less computing power than the offerings from other companies, so it is offering those compression techniques and computing algorithms to the wider community.
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  • Apple financial partner Green Dot slapped with millions in fines over hidden fees

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    Stabitha_Christie said:
    In point one is a wild exaggeration. Green Dot is responsible for Apple Cash. Apple Cash is only available in the U.S. and is opt in. Since the majority of iPhone users don't live in the U.S. Green Dot is completely irrelevant. Further the only people that Green Dot gets info on are people that opt in to using Apple Cash. 

    So, for the group of people that do use Apple Cash, what information does Green Dot get? Per Apple;
    "When you set up Apple Cash, your identifying information and contact information, as well as the same information as when you add a credit or debit card may be shared with Green Dot Bank and with Apple Payments Inc."
    It isn't a whole lot. Hardly my "financial data", my finical data includes laundry list of things like account balance at various institutions, credit score, income and any debt I may carry (credit card, loans, mortgage).

    So what about how I am spending my money or whom I am sending it too? Again, from Apple:

    "Apple created Apple Payments Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary and licensed money transmitter, to protect your privacy. Your Apple Cash account registration information (name, address), balance, transaction amount, and to which individuals you send money are stored separately by Apple Payments Inc. in a way that the rest of Apple doesn’t know." 
    All of the good stuff doesn't go to them, it stays with Apple Payments Inc. 

    So, let's tone down the hair on fire rhetoric and stick with what is actually happening.

    First: love that handle!

    Second: Green Dot Bank is a partner in Apple Payments, Inc as well as Apple Cash.

    The point I was trying to make with Mr Didn't Quite Comprehend the Article up there is that a partner of Apple's getting in ethical trouble is newsworthy, even if it doesn't mean you or anyone else is in immediate danger. The only hair on fire here is apparently yours.

    Third: Per your own quote above, Apple Payments gets more than just your name and address, because they have to. The REST of Apple doesn't get this information (good), but the BANK they use (Green Dot) is part of Apple Payments and therefore does.

    Again: I'm not saying pull your money out of Apple Card, or Apple Cash, etc. I was simply defending the reason the article ran -- Green Dot is a partner in Apple Payments, and they got caught (some time ago) doing something shady, and got fined for it. The current CEO says they've cleaned up their act (again, that's from the article) and I have no reason at present to not believe that.

    I'm just glad that journalists keep making sure that's still the case.
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  • iPhone SE 4 chassis now said to resemble the iPhone 16

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    bonobob said:
    I think this is pretty unlikely, unless it's to comply with right-to-repair laws.  Apple likes to use previous gen tech to get more life out of the designs and manufacturing lines.
    Ah, but every next-gen iPhone will NEED to run Apple Intelligence, so perhaps there's literally no room in the old designs -- the iPhone 15 and even the 15 Plus don't have the power or room to run AI, which needs a bigger "neural engine" and better ways to disperse the heat that will generate.

    As I said above, lots of people would appreciate a smaller iPhone, but it's likely they would not be willing to give up most of the new features to get one. We'll see, of course.
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  • Apple financial partner Green Dot slapped with millions in fines over hidden fees

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    Luis.A.Masanti said:
    quote: “Green Dot Bank, an Apple financial partner for Apple Cash and other services, has been fined $44 million by the Federal Reserve over its tax-preparation service. The penalty is unrelated to its role in any Apple services.”

    The title of this article is the highest level of page view harvesting!
    It is not false… but has nothing to REALLY do with the news!

    1. If Apple is using an at-least-sometimes unethical company that has access to YOUR financial data, you wouldn't want to know this? Really?

    2. "Page view harvesting" appears to work especially well on YOU, doesn't it? :lol: 
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  • macOS Sequoia beta review: yet again small but welcome changes

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    abriden said:
    I would be willing to pay for the OS if they'd just fix the bugs in Finder that send me back to the root-level every time I delete an item in column-view, or provide auto-resizing of columns in column-view, or allow me to hide all unwanted fonts in font-menus.

    No new features please, just fix the bloody bugs.
    I’m not sure you actually know what a “bug” is.

    Your first complaint certainly SOUNDS like a bug, to be fair, but neither MacPro above nor I can reproduce this bug. Try using the method MacPro describes and report back, please. A genuine “bug” is an unexpected issue that happens to more than one particular user, so we’ll put that one in the “possibly a bug” column for now.

    Auto-resizing of columns in column view is a feature (or in this case, the lack of a feature), not a bug.

    “Allow me to hide all unwanted fonts in font-menus” — how would the machine know which fonts you don’t want at any given moment? Even Apple Intelligence (or any other AI model) wouldn’t’ be able to read your moods at any given moment, but even if UriGeller PsyOS could read your mind on something like this, it would still be a feature (or lack thereof), not a bug.

    If there’s some fonts that you know you are never, ever going to use — uninstall them. There’s a handful that are required for the system to operate/apps rely on that cannot be uninstalled, but the rest can be:
    https://osxdaily.com/2011/10/03/installing-removing-fonts-in-mac-os-x/

    PS. Those little crawly things you may occasionally see in your house — those are actual bugs. :smile: 
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