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Apple's Houston manufacturing facility, originally scheduled to open in 2026, is now shipping AI servers that power Apple Intelligence and Private Cloud Compute (Brooke Singman/Fox Business)
https://www.foxbusiness.com/politics/apple…

Apple building American-made AI servers ahead of schedule in new Houston facility, answering Trump call
EXCLUSIVE: Apple is now building and shipping American-made artificial intelligence servers in the United States — a move that has the technology giant answering President Donald Trump’s call to on shore manufacturing.

End-to-end RL Improves Dexterous Grasping Policies
Ritvik Singh, Karl Van Wyk, Pieter Abbeel, Jitendra Malik, Nathan Ratliff, Ankur Handa
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.16434 https:…

End-to-end RL Improves Dexterous Grasping Policies
This work explores techniques to scale up image-based end-to-end learning for dexterous grasping with an arm + hand system. Unlike state-based RL, vision-based RL is much more memory inefficient, resulting in relatively low batch sizes, which is not amenable for algorithms like PPO. Nevertheless, it is still an attractive method as unlike the more commonly used techniques which distill state-based policies into vision networks, end-to-end RL can allow for emergent active vision behaviors. We id…

Nach Härtung: Apple spendet iPhone 17 an Organisationen der Zivilgesellschaft
Mit A19 und A19 Pro führt Apple das Memory Integrity Enforcement ein, das komplexe Angriffe besser verhindern soll. Entsprechende Geräte werden nun gespendet.

I think I need to clarify some shit for (white) liberals.
How many times have you wondered if someone you're talking to in an informant sent to entrap you? How many times have you or a friend of yours been hit by a car, intentionally? How many friends have been hit, or almost hit? Ever been stabbed? Know anyone who has? Has the FBI ever knocked on a friend's door? Have police ever kicked down your door? Have you ever been arrested? Pepper sprayed? Does the sound or smell or blast balls give you flashbacks? Do you ever wonder what all the CS exposure is doing to your body? How many times have you been shot or shot at? Do you wonder every day if this is the day they'll come to kill you? Would anyone in your social circle answer these questions differently?
When you vote, you risk nothing (big asterisk, but if I'm talking to you then it doesn't apply to you). What you get out of voting is exactly what you put into it. Direct action is the same.
If you aren't worried about someone murdering you, then you probably aren't actually threatening the system. That's the difference between voting, and doing something useful. If they had to murder all the liberals in order to keep going, fascism would end. If they're only murdering radicals and marginalized people, then you're just like all the "good Germans" who hated Hitler but did essentially nothing.
It's already that bad for some people. How much are you willing to risk? How many people are you willing to sacrifice for your comfort? These are the questions we're all thinking about every time you tell us to vote.
(I'm tagging this #USPol so it's easy for folks to filter out if they're already well acquaintaned with the horror. I'm not CW, because USPol is just expected to be triggering.)

"In theory, AI model makers could eliminate hallucinations by using a dataset that contains no errors."
I think someone has fundamentally misunderstood the technology. Developing a model using a 100% correct training dataset does not mean that the resulting AI will be able to correctly answer questions that were not in the training data.
Over-fitting is a thing.

OpenAI says models are programmed to make stuff up instead of admitting ignorance
: Even a wrong answer is right some of the time

Non-existence of negative derivations on the higher Nash blowup local algebra
W\'agner Badilla-C\'espedes, Abel Castorena, Daniel Duarte, Luis N\'u\~nez-Betancourt
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.14353

Non-existence of negative derivations on the higher Nash blowup local algebra
Let $f\in\mathbb{C}[x_1,\ldots,x_s]$ be a weighted homogeneous polynomial having an isolated singularity and $\mathcal{T}_n(f)$ be its higher Nash blowup local algebra. We show that $\mathcal{T}_n(f)$ does not admit negative weighted derivations for $n\geq2$. This answers affirmatively a conjecture of Hussain-Ma-Yau-Zuo.

A guy I know said he was way more productive when using AI.
My question:
"Are you able to get your work done in fewer hours and spend that time not working, maybe spending it with your family, or doing hobbies or other pleasurable activities? Or do you just do more work?"
Their Answer:
"I work the same hours but now productivity is up so it is not a benefit to myself or society. However, I think the opposite. The quality of work I produce in that time is…

YouGov: 59% of US adults use smart assistants to check the weather, 51% for music, 47% to get answers on the web, and 40% for timers, mirroring usage in 2018 (Rani Molla/Sherwood News)
https://sherwood.news/tech/people-use-google-amazon…

People use Google, Amazon, and Apple’s smart assistants for weather, timers, and music — the same stuff we were doing a decade ago
Digital assistants can do more but not well or consistently.

Schnell installieren: Apple fixt Zero-Day-Angriff in WebKit
Google zufolge wurde eine WebKit-Lücke in Chrome bereits aktiv angegriffen. Apples Sicherheitshinweise enthalten dazu aber keine Angaben.
https://www.…

Apple responds to the DOJ's antitrust lawsuit from March 2024, saying it sets "a dangerous precedent" and "threatens the very principles that set iPhone apart" (Chance Miller/9to5Mac)
https://9to5mac.com/2025/07/29/apple-doj-lawsuit-answer-iphone/

Apple slams DOJ lawsuit: ’threatens the very principles that set iPhone apart’ - 9to5Mac
The US Department of Justice formally sued Apple in March 2024, accusing the company of having a “smartphone monopoly.” Apple...