Topic: on-device ai
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Qualcomm Invests in SpotDraft, Doubling Valuation to $400M for On-Device AI
SpotDraft, a legal tech startup, has secured an $8 million strategic investment from Qualcomm Ventures, doubling its valuation to approximately $380 million since last year. The company addresses enterprise AI adoption barriers in legal services with its VerifAI platform, which performs contract ...
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Google's Vision: Search Intent Beyond Queries
Google is developing on-device AI for search that anticipates user intent from behavior, aiming to enhance speed, privacy, and cost-efficiency compared to cloud-based systems. A breakthrough method decomposes intent understanding into two steps: summarizing individual screen interactions, then sy...
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Quadric's On-Device AI Shift Pays Off Big
Quadric, a processor IP startup, is experiencing rapid growth by licensing its technology for on-device AI processing, with 2025 licensing revenue projected to jump to $15-20 million and its valuation rising to $270-300 million. The company's business model focuses on licensing programmable AI pr...
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Microsoft's On-Device AI Can Now Power Your Copy-Paste
Microsoft's PowerToys update enhances the Advanced Paste tool with on-device AI, allowing local text translation and summarization using device hardware without cloud data transfer. The tool now supports both local AI processing via Microsoft Foundry or Ollama and integration with cloud services ...
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Why Your Phone's AI Isn't Getting Smarter
The article highlights a disconnect between the marketing of powerful on-device AI chips (NPUs) in smartphones and the reality that most transformative AI features, like advanced chatbots, still rely on cloud servers. It explains that an NPU is a specialized processor within a phone's main chip, ...
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Samsung Phones Set for Major Performance Boost
The next generation of Samsung smartphones will see a major performance boost from Qualcomm's new Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 chipset, enhancing speed, AI capabilities, and multimedia experiences. A key feature is the 3rd-gen Qualcomm Oryon CPU, claimed as the world's fastest mobile CPU, which enabl...
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Small Language Models: AI21's Edge AI Breakthrough
AI21's Jamba Reasoning 3B is an open-source, 3-billion-parameter model designed for high performance on consumer hardware, featuring a large 250,000-token context window for processing extensive documents and complex tasks efficiently. The model employs a hybrid architecture that blends transform...
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2026 SEO Priorities: 14 Must-Do's for Executives & Marketers
The competitive landscape is shifting from traditional search to AI-driven conversational platforms, requiring brands to treat these AI systems as primary distribution channels for visibility. Content must be structured and formatted for machine retrieval, as AI models prioritize clear, predictab...
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Apple Appoints New AI Chief with Google, Microsoft Experience
Apple has appointed Amar Subramanya, a former Microsoft and Google AI leader, as its new head of AI to accelerate development after a period of product delays and public missteps. The company faced significant internal dysfunction and public embarrassment, including a rocky launch of Apple Intell...
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Apple Intelligence: Your Complete Guide to Apple's AI
Apple Intelligence, launched in October 2024, integrates generative AI into native apps like Messages and Mail, offering features such as Writing Tools for summarization and proofreading, and Genmojis for image creation. Siri has been significantly upgraded with cross-app functionality and onscre...
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Firefox for iPhone Adds 'Shake to Summarize' Feature
Firefox is introducing a shake-to-summarize feature on iPhone, allowing users to generate AI-powered summaries of webpages for quick content digestion. The feature uses Apple's on-device AI on iPhone 15 Pro or newer with iOS 26, while older devices rely on Mozilla's cloud-based system, with alter...
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Lenovo's New AI Assistant Can Act on Your Behalf
Lenovo is shifting from hardware to embedding its new AI assistant, Qira, across its device ecosystem to focus on practical, user-centric applications rather than just chasing AI models. Qira differentiates itself with a modular architecture using both local and cloud AI models, autonomous action...
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Galaxy S26 May Block Spam Calls Using Google AI
Samsung's upcoming Galaxy S26 series will be the first non-Google phones to integrate Google's AI-powered Scam Detection feature for smarter, on-device call screening. The feature will leverage Google's Gemini Nano AI model, processing calls locally on the phone's hardware to enhance user privacy...
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GPT-5's Out, Qwen's In: The New AI Contender
Qwen, an open-weight AI model from Alibaba, is powering practical applications like real-time translation in smart glasses, offering high performance and accessibility despite not leading all benchmarks. Open Chinese models like Qwen are gaining global popularity, surpassing American model downlo...
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Pixel Watch 4 Gains One-Handed Gestures & Smarter Replies
The WearOS 6.1 update introduces exclusive one-handed gestures for the Pixel Watch 4, including a double pinch for various controls and a wrist turn to dismiss notifications. A new on-device AI model significantly enhances smart replies, making them twice as fast and more memory-efficient for the...
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Apple Staff Report Siri Issues in Early iOS 26.4 Builds
Apple is preparing to launch an AI-enhanced Siri with iOS 26.4 early next year, but internal testing reveals ongoing performance issues despite development delays. The redesigned Siri, originally planned for iOS 18, was delayed by a year due to quality concerns, with Apple pursuing both on-device...
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Chrome's Latest Update Adds 3 AI Features, Including 'Nano Banana'
Google's Chrome browser has integrated three new AI features, including a Gemini-powered side panel for multitasking, an agentic Auto Browse function, and an image editor called Nano Banana, to enhance productivity. The Nano Banana tool allows users to directly edit images on webpages via text co...
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Android's New Lockout Feature Hardens Device Security
Google has enhanced Android's device theft protection with stronger authentication, including a more robust Failed Authentication Lock and increased lockout times after incorrect login attempts, making brute-force attacks significantly harder. The update expands the Identity Check feature to requ...
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