LFM2.5-24B-A2B Targets Local Mac Agents With a Crucial MLX Requirement
Liquid AI’s LFM2.5-24B-A2B targets local agents on Apple silicon. Its MLX version requires mlx-lm 0.32.0 or later to route experts correctly.
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Apple’s custom chips and the performance behind them.
Apple Briefly Overtakes Nvidia as the World’s Most Valuable Company
Apple overtook Nvidia on Friday to become the world’s most valuable publicly traded company for the first time since April 2025. The change followed a sharp fall in Nvidia shares during a broader semiconductor selloff, while Apple remained comparatively stable. The lead lasted only briefly, with Nvidia recovering later in the session and moving back…
Apple Skipped the AI Spending War. It Is Now Big Tech’s Best-Performing Stock
Apple spent the first years of the generative AI boom looking late. Microsoft tied itself to OpenAI, Google rebuilt its products around Gemini, and Amazon and Meta committed enormous sums to chips and data centers. Apple introduced Apple Intelligence slowly, delayed major Siri features and relied on outside models where its own software fell short….
The Memory Shortage Is Wrecking the PC Market. It’s Helping Apple.
Global PC shipments fell 4.9 percent last quarter to 68.2 million units, the first drop after nine straight quarters of growth. Lenovo, HP, and Dell all shrank. Apple did the opposite, shipping 6.7 million Macs, up 10.1 percent, for 9.9 percent of the market. It was the only top-five vendor to grow. Apple beats a…
A New Kind of Malware Is Making Its Way Onto Macs
Jamf Threat Labs disclosed a new macOS stealer on July 3. It’s called PamStealer, and it does one thing most Mac malware doesn’t: it confirms your login password is real before stealing anything. The trick Most stealers just log whatever you type. PamStealer verifies it first, through Apple’s Pluggable Authentication Modules (PAM). Enter the wrong…
What’s New in appleOS 27 Beta 3
Apple released the third developer betas of the entire OS 27 family on July 6: iOS, iPadOS, macOS Golden Gate, watchOS, tvOS, and visionOS. On iPhone, the build number is 24A5380h. The update is mostly bug fixes, with a small set of feature changes. Here is what’s new. Siri Voice Customization The Pace and Expressivity…
The Week Apple Stopped Setting Its Own Prices
On June 25, Apple’s online store went down for a few hours and came back with higher prices across the lineup: every Mac, every iPad, the Apple TV, both HomePods, and the Vision Pro. Everyone has covered the price list. Here’s what it actually means. Apple explained itself Apple almost never gives a reason for…
