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Siri AI opens to all developers [Xtra!]Apple hands third-party apps a hook into its assistant stack, reshaping the iOS AI surface.
ChatGPT Search closing in on Google, chat merging with work [Xtra!]OpenAI's own numbers show chat is becoming a genuine search and work substitute, not a novelty.
DeepSeek to train next model on Huawei Ascend chips [Xtra!]A top-tier open model moving off Nvidia validates Huawei's AI silicon at frontier scale.
Viral 'Astra reads/writes Qwen weights' claim debunked [Xtra!]A sloppy technical claim about self-modifying weights spread fast; the correction matters for AI literacy.
Qualcomm ships Cloud AI 100 Ultra inference card [Xtra!]A 150W, 128GB card at 548GB/s gives inference buyers another option beyond Nvidia.
Qualcomm's HBC memory silicon clears lab validation [Xtra!]Big bandwidth-per-watt gains over HBM4 could reshape inference memory economics.