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   Mistlabs raises $26M pre-Series A as ambient AI app Ambi exits beta

   Mistlabs Ltd., the company behind the ambient AI app Ambi, has raised $26 million in pre-Series A funding and taken the product out of beta on Apple devices, according to SiliconANGLE. Ambi runs on iPhone, Apple Watch and Mac and is said to learn about users from their conversations, an approach the company describes as ambient intelligence. The report did not name the investors or disclose a valuation or user numbers, and the product's capabilities are so far described only by the company.

   Techmeme · 🔥 0
2. Oct 12
   Apple's Minions turns idle Macs into an internal virtual GPU cloud

   Apple researchers published a paper describing Minions, an internal "virtual GPU cloud" that aggregates idle Apple Silicon Macs across the network to run machine learning inference. A Minion Server splits submitted jobs into subtasks stored in PostgreSQL, a Minion Executor on each Mac pulls subtasks over REST APIs and runs them on the local GPU with inputs and outputs in Amazon S3, and a Minion Watchdog requeues unfinished work when a machine sleeps, goes offline, powers off or its user stops the executor, using five-minute heartbeats. The paper says Minions only handles inference — embeddings with Hugging Face transformer models and text generation through Ollama installed on each Mac — and Apple reports that some jobs that once faced 10-plus-hour centralized GPU queues could start within minutes, figures that come from Apple's own testing and leave cross-team data confidentiality as an open concern.

   Apple Machine Learning Research · 🔥 0
3. Oct 11
   Takes for Mac: record talking-head video, let Claude Code edit

   A Mac product called Takes for Mac has appeared on Product Hunt, pitched as a way to record talking-head videos with Claude Code handling the edit. The listing offers only a one-line description, with no details on pricing, availability or how the editing works.

   Product Hunt · 🔥 0
4. Oct 11
   AI-driven memory prices push PC shipments down about 20% in Q3 2026

   Data from research firms Omdia and IDC both point to a sharp global PC slowdown in the third quarter of 2026: Omdia estimates 58.1 million desktops, notebooks and workstations shipped, down 21.2% year over year, while IDC counts 62.7 million units, down 20.1% year over year and 9.1% quarter over quarter, breaking the usual seasonal pattern. Both firms attribute the slump largely to memory and storage price increases, as AI data-center demand for DRAM, HBM and high-speed storage squeezes supply for consumer PCs; Omdia says DRAM and SSDs now account for nearly 40% of a PC's bill of materials, up from about 15%. Omdia cites a mainstream laptop that sold for $699 in Q1 2025 with roughly $435 in parts, versus about $699 in parts for a comparable configuration in Q3 2026, and reports HP shipments fell about 31% while Apple's Macs fell about 11.3%. Separately, Microsoft says its testing shows Windows 11 26H2 can cut post-reboot memory use by up to about 2GB, and it aims to make the OS run better on 8GB machines by the end of 2026.

   cnBeta · 🔥 0

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