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Apple's Q3 fiscal year 2025 revenue grew by 10% exceeding expectations. CEO Cook announced a significant increase in AI investment, focusing on developing personalized Siri features, expected to launch next year. Cook stated that AI is the most transformative technology and revealed that seven companies have been acquired this year, expressing openness to acquisitions that accelerate technological development. Facing the gap with competitors such as OpenAI, Apple may consider collaborating with companies like Anthropic and could possibly acquire Perplexity, which is valued at 14 billion dollars.

Apple loses four AI experts to Meta in a month, including key researcher Zhang Bowen and former AI head Pang Ruoming (compensation over $200M). Meta's aggressive hiring for its super AI team outpaces Apple's retention efforts, highlighting Apple's AI talent struggle and strategic concerns.....

In his article, Zhou Hongyi critically criticized Apple's performance in the AI field, calling Apple Intelligence, which Apple has promoted, a complete failure. He explicitly stated that as a tech giant with a market value of trillions, Apple has failed to even establish basic models and products in the AI battlefield, likening it to letting Einstein participate in a kindergarten math competition and losing, vividly highlighting Apple's awkward situation in the AI competition.

Microsoft CEO Nadella unveils a new strategy to transform the company into an 'AI engine' for 8 billion people, shifting from software to AI-powered platforms. He emphasizes democratizing digital tool creation in the AI era. Despite strong performance, Microsoft cut 15,000 jobs (4% of workforce) as necessary adaptation to tech shifts, likening it to 1990s PC transition.....

OpenAI launched ChatGPT's agent feature for paid users on July 24, 2025, integrating Operator and Deep Research tools to enable AI to autonomously handle multi-step tasks like travel planning and financial reports. It excels in benchmarks with 27.4% math accuracy. Plus/Pro/Team users can access it now, with enterprise rollout coming.....

This afternoon, Yu Chengdong, CEO of Huawei Consumer Business, officially launched the flagship creative tablet - Huawei MatePad Pro 12.2-inch, along with the new generation of stylus HUAWEI M-Pencil Pro, bringing an unprecedented experience upgrade for creators. This stylus will be available for purchase on August 8th at 10:08 am, priced at 699 yuan. The HUAWEI M-Pencil Pro stylus continues the minimalist design language in appearance, but the smart key at the end of the pen adopts a new HarmonyOS

Apple's AI team faces internal conflict as SVP Federighi rejects open-source plan, citing existing models and iPhone performance concerns. Team questions 'device-first' strategy. Apple delays Siri update, considers partnering with OpenAI, highlighting AI strategy dilemma between privacy and innovation.....

Apple released the iOS 26 Beta 4 developer preview, featuring minor adjustments to the Liquid Glass interface, the return of the AI news summary feature, and other updates. This version adds a new welcome startup screen, a warning prompt for Siri news summary settings, and optimizes the camera app. The AI summary feature, previously paused due to a complaint from BBC, has been reactivated but now includes a disclaimer about accuracy. Additionally, dynamic wallpaper and CarPlay wallpaper options have been updated, and some interface adjustments from Beta 3 have been fixed. Apple also simultaneously released updates for iPadOS, macOS...

XREAL launches AR smart glasses XREAL One Pro, using its self-developed X Prism optical engine technology, achieving a 57° ultra-wide field of view, increasing the visible area by 63%. Equipped with X1 spatial computing chip, 3ms ultra-low latency, compatible with multiple devices. Over 10,000 pre-orders have been obtained overseas, with a domestic price of 4299 yuan, shipping in mid-July.

The Qualcomm AI Research Institute has introduced an innovative technology called CSD-VAR, which enhances the generation capabilities of vision autoregressive models through content-style decomposition. This technology employs scale-aware generation and SVD correction to achieve precise separation of content and style, outperforming traditional diffusion models in terms of fidelity and stylistic effects. The accompanying CSD-100 dataset optimizes model training and evaluation. CSD-VAR also introduces a K-V memory mechanism to improve processing efficiency, with broad application prospects in fields such as artistic creation and game development, showcasing Qualcomm's advancements in visual generation technology.

OpenAI announced that it will deploy over 1 million GPUs by 2025, launching a hundredfold expansion plan. At the same time, it disclosed the Stargate project, which has a budget of 50 billion USD, and will build the world's largest AI training cluster in Texas. The project is chaired by Masayoshi Son, CEO of SoftBank, with OpenAI responsible for operations. It has received support from technology giants such as Microsoft and NVIDIA, aiming to strengthen AI infrastructure layout and enhance technological competitiveness.

Ant Group's AI health app AQ, the iOS version, topped the Apple healthcare chart within 24 hours of its release. The app integrates a self-developed medical large model, offering over 100 AI services such as seeking medical advice, connecting nearly one million doctors and 5,000 hospitals. Its AI consultation room can simulate a real doctor's diagnosis, and the AI doctor avatars include over 200 top-tier hospital experts. Featured functions include health record management, supporting the connection of Apple devices to obtain health data. AQ is among the first applications in China to pass the national medical large model trust evaluation. It will cooperate with Apple Watch in the future.

Apple's slow progress in the AI field has led to speculation about senior management changes, with analysts suggesting that CEO Cook should step down. Although the board still supports Cook, the unimpressive AI performance at the WWDC conference has increased investor disappointment. Under Cook's leadership, Apple's market value grew from 340 billion to 3.1 trillion dollars, but critics argue that his success is largely based on improvements from the Jobs era. Faced with the challenges of the AI era, the outside world questions whether Cook has the innovative leadership to open a new chapter for Apple.

Apple's MLX framework now supports CUDA, marking a strategic shift to embrace NVIDIA's ecosystem. This enables developers to train models on NVIDIA GPUs and deploy on Apple devices, enhancing efficiency and bridging platform gaps.....

Meta hired two Apple AI experts, Mark Lee and Tom Gunter, for its super intelligence lab, following the recruitment of Apple's AI head with a $20M+ package. Zuckerberg prioritizes AI, investing heavily to compete with OpenAI and Google, highlighting the intense tech talent war.....

xAI's Grok chatbot added controversial 3D avatars (mischievous panda & goth girl) with inappropriate content, bypassing App Store's 12+ rating, raising AI ethics concerns.....

Microsoft upgrades Copilot Vision for Windows Insiders, enabling AI to view entire desktops/windows for enhanced visual recognition. Users can activate screen-sharing-like functionality via a glasses icon for content analysis and personalized suggestions, supporting scenarios like resume optimization and real-time mobile camera Q&A. Key features: 1️⃣ Full desktop/window vision 2️⃣ One-click sharing 3️⃣ Mobile camera interaction.....

Kimi K2 excels in creative writing, outperforming o3-Pro in short story creation. This open-source model by Moonshot (Ali-backed) shows strengths in literary compression and metaphor innovation, with some works near publishable quality. Its low cost ($0.15/M tokens) and precise instruction-following attract developers, though emotional depth and multilingual performance need improvement. This breakthrough sets new AI writing standards.....

Apple's MLX framework now supports CUDA, allowing developers to create applications on Apple Silicon devices and export them to run in a CUDA environment. This move significantly reduces development costs, as small teams no longer need to purchase expensive Nvidia hardware upfront. The project, led by GitHub developers, has been integrated into the main MLX branch. Although it does not support running directly on Macs with Nvidia GPUs, development and testing can be fully completed on Apple devices. Performance in CUDA environments is significantly better than on Macs, and combining it with Nvidia hardware for AI applications is highly beneficial.