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Meta's return to open weights is an 816-billion-parameter model that it says runs on two Mac Studios

Meta calls Muse Spark Open the most capable US open-weight model to date. The number that matters is not the parameter count but the 42 billion of them that are active at a time.

A judge has given Apple early access to OpenAI's interview records, and approved a deposition of its hardware chief

OpenAI has five days to hand over what it has already collected and 14 for the rest, in a case Apple filed in July over engineers who left for its hardware team.

Apple will not sell its $299 Siri AI display in the European Union, and says the reason is that Siri AI is not in iOS there

The explanation is a single sentence in the pricing section of Apple's own press release, and it is the plainest statement yet of what the company's standoff with Brussels costs its customers.

Apple hired the team behind Google's AI podcast feature, and the only record of it is a line on an EU list

No price, no named employees, no statement from Apple. The Digital Markets Act is the reason the public knows about the deal at all.

PC shipments fell by a fifth, and memory is now nearly 40% of what a computer costs to build

Two trackers, two totals, one cause: the memory and storage that AI data centres are buying now sets the price of a laptop.

Apple has cut iPhone 18 Pro component orders, and the chain of causes runs back to AI data centres

A 15% cut in component orders is not a 15% fall in sales. It is still the clearest sign yet that the cost of the build-out is reaching consumers.