5+ hour, 29+ min ago   (235+ words) The toolkit adds support for multiple Metal 4 features unavailable in earlier versions: frame buffer fetch, function constants, and new intersection function buffers. These additions eliminate API friction points that previously required manual workarounds or compromises in visual fidelity and performance....

7+ hour, 44+ min ago   (719+ words) Apple’s Foundation Model is not the most capable AI model you can run on an iPhone, according to a new DeviceMark evaluation. But it has one major advantage over the other models tested: speed. Apple’s on-device model can generate responses…...

10+ hour, 18+ min ago   (277+ words) OpenAI has announced that ChatGPT and Codex users can now add multiple Gmail, Google Calendar, and Google Contacts accounts, removing a limitation that had forced users with separate personal and professional Google workspaces to maintain separate conversations or manually switch…...

3+ day, 13+ hour ago   (354+ words) iThinkDifferent Parallels Desktop 27 introduces a Metal-based graphics driver that delivers hardware-accelerated OpenGL 4.3 support to Windows virtual machines running on Apple Silicon, with Parallels claiming up to 160% faster OpenGL graphics performance on M3 and newer Macs. The upgrade closes a real gap:…...

4+ day, 16+ hour ago   (239+ words) iThinkDifferent Apple announced that it will not move Hide My Email addresses to the private.icloud.com domain, reversing a change it announced in mid-June. The reversal comes after significant user and security researcher pushback over privacy implications that would…...

4+ day, 16+ hour ago   (259+ words) OpenAI has released a sticker creation feature in ChatGPT that lets users generate custom stickers and export them directly to WhatsApp and iMessage. The feature, which builds on ChatGPT’s existing image generation capabilities, is now available to users and allows…...

4+ day, 16+ hour ago   (246+ words) iThinkDifferent The reinstatement addresses two separate concerns which include infrastructure pressure and user experience. OpenAI needs the hourly cap to balance demand across its compute resources. Beyond that, a user who exhausts an entire week’s Codex allowance in one extended…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago   (262+ words) The first discovery shows how a sandboxed third-party extension gets treated as a native AI provider inside Siri, using an internal Model Delegation API tucked inside Apple’s App Intents framework. The developer summed up the flexibility of the design directly:…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago   (346+ words) iThinkDifferent WhatsApp beta 26.33.10.18 includes new Liquid Glass improvements for the drawing editor and video player, marking the next phase of Meta’s ongoing redesign of the messaging app’s interface. The two screen updates are currently under development in TestFlight and not…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago   (360+ words) OpenAI has added a new Apple Messages integration to ChatGPT for Mac, giving the AI access to conversations stored in the Messages app. The integration can read, search, analyze, prepare, and send messages, making it possible to interact with iMessage,…...