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Speeding up PyTorch inference on Apple devices with AI-generated Metal kernels

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-19 13:03:35

Speeding up PyTorch inference by 87% on Apple devices with AI-generated Metal kernels tl;dr: Our lab investigated whether frontier models can write optimized GPU kernels for Apple devices to speed up inference. We found that they can: our AI-generated Metal kernels were 1.87x faster across 215 PyTorch modules, with some workloads running hundreds of times faster than baseline. Why use AI to generate kernels for Apple devices? AI models execute on hardware via GPU kernels that define each oper

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Judge: Google can keep Chrome, must share search data with “qualified competitors”

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-10-19 14:20:00

Google has avoided the worst-case scenario in the pivotal search antitrust case brought by the US Department of Justice. More than a year ago, the Department of Justice (DOJ) secured a major victory when Google was found to have violated the Sherman Antitrust Act. The remedy phase took place earlier this year, with the DOJ calling for Google to divest the market-leading Chrome browser, release data to competitors, and end many of its search distribution deals. The government is getting almost n

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Google brings Material 3 Expressive to Pixel 6 and newer devices, along with other features

techcrunch.com Aisha Malik 2025-10-19 14:00:00

Google announced on Wednesday that it’s bringing a slew of new features to the Android ecosystem and Pixel devices. The tech giant is introducing Material 3 Expressive to Pixel phones, Adaptive Audio for the Pixel Buds Pro 2, on-wrist navigation for the Pixel Watch, new AI writing tools in Gboard, enhanced audio sharing capabilities, the ability to create custom Android bots, and more. Starting Wednesday, Material 3 Expressive is coming to Pixel 6 and newer devices, as well as Pixel Tablet. Goo

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SpaceX gets a green light to more than double its Florida launches

techcrunch.com Aria Alamalhodaei 2025-10-19 14:36:59

The world’s most-flown rocket may start flying even more. U.S. regulators have completed a key environmental review that paves the way for SpaceX to more than double the number of Falcon 9 launches from Florida’s Cape Canaveral Space Force Station. In addition to the annual launch increase from 50 launches to up to 120, the Federal Aviation Administration’s environmental review also approved a new on-site landing zone that could accommodate up to 34 booster landings per year. These boosters ar

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US sues robot toy maker for exposing children's data to Chinese devs

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2025-10-19 18:53:32

The U.S. Department of Justice has sued toy maker Apitor Technology for allegedly allowing a Chinese third party to collect children's geolocation data without their knowledge and parental consent. A complaint filed by the Justice Department, following a notification from the Federal Trade Commission, alleges that Apitor violated the Children's Online Privacy Protection Rule (COPPA) by failing to notify parents or obtain their consent before collecting their children's location information. Ap

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Speeding up PyTorch inference by 87% on Apple with AI-generated Metal kernels

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-19 18:03:35

Speeding up PyTorch inference by 87% on Apple devices with AI-generated Metal kernels tl;dr: Our lab investigated whether frontier models can write optimized GPU kernels for Apple devices to speed up inference. We found that they can: our AI-generated Metal kernels were 1.87x faster across 215 PyTorch modules, with some workloads running hundreds of times faster than baseline. Why use AI to generate kernels for Apple devices? AI models execute on hardware via GPU kernels that define each oper

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VibeVoice: A Frontier Open-Source Text-to-Speech Model

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-19 11:44:01

VibeVoice: A Frontier Open-Source Text-to-Speech Model VibeVoice is a novel framework designed for generating expressive, long-form, multi-speaker conversational audio, such as podcasts, from text. It addresses significant challenges in traditional Text-to-Speech (TTS) systems, particularly in scalability, speaker consistency, and natural turn-taking. A core innovation of VibeVoice is its use of continuous speech tokenizers (Acoustic and Semantic) operating at an ultra-low frame rate of 7.5 Hz.

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Mophie Made the Ultimate Charging Stand for All Your AirPods

gizmodo.com Raymond Wong 2025-10-19 18:20:44

IFA 2025 is chock full of RGB-bleeding gaming laptops, cassette tape Bluetooth boomboxes, Nvidia AI computing (gotta have that), and, of course, this Max Headphones Charging Stand from reputable accessory maker Mophie. Unlike the thousands of other charging stands available to buy from every brand under the sun, this one actually does something different that I’ve not seen before: it charges both a pair of AirPods Max and a pair of AirPods or AirPods Pro. Mophie says it’s the “first dedicated c

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Why Is Google Climbing Today? Here Are The Basics

gizmodo.com Ece Yildirim 2025-10-19 18:35:48

Google investors were overjoyed on Wednesday in response to a long-awaited decision in a high-profile federal antitrust case against Google. On Tuesday, federal judge Amit P. Mehta of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia ruled that Google could get to keep its Chrome browser, despite a previous ruling also by Mehta declaring that the tech giant’s search business was a monopoly. In response, Google stock had its largest upside non-earnings-related overnight gap up since it was a

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Mophie adds wireless charging to the AirPods Max with a clever new stand

theverge.com Andrew Liszewski 2025-10-19 18:33:29

is a senior reporter who’s been covering and reviewing the latest gadgets and tech since 2006, but has loved all things electronic since he was a kid. Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Mophie has announced a new wireless charger for Apple’s AirPods Max called the Max Headphones Charging Stand. The AirPods Max don’t support wireless charging, so Mophie’s new stand relies on a small dongle that stays connected to the headphones’ USB-C port at

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Orchard Robotics, founded by a Thiel fellow Cornell dropout, raises $22M for farm vision AI

techcrunch.com Marina Temkin 2025-10-19 18:30:00

Inspired by his grandparents, who were apple farmers in China, Charlie Wu got the idea to apply technology to agriculture while studying computer science at Cornell University, a top agriculture school. “I got to meet fruit professors who are the best in the world at what they do,” Wu told TechCrunch. “Through talking to them, I realized even the largest farms in the nation basically have no idea what is actually growing out in their fields.” He dropped out of Cornell, became a Thiel fellow, a

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Curiosity Drives Broad Innovation and Real-world Solutions

computer.org Jasmine Ang 2025-10-19 20:20:52

An Interview with Dr. Jiebo Luo – 2025 2025 Edward J. McCluskey Technical Achievement Award Recipient Dr. Jiebo Luo, the Albert Arendt Hopeman Professor of Engineering and Professor of Computer Science at the University of Rochester, is a visionary in computer vision, machine learning, and computational social science whose groundbreaking work has spanned over 600 publications, 90 patents, and numerous prestigious awards across academia and industry. Your research spans computer vision, natura

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reMarkable announces new Paper Pro Move: a palm-sized paper tablet that’s priced well

9to5mac.com Michael Burkhardt 2025-10-19 20:59:33

Today, reMarkable announced a much smaller version of the reMarkable Paper Pro, dubbed Paper Pro Move. It comes in at a much lower price tag, and still packs all of the beloved features of the larger reMarkable Paper Pro. It’s designed for work on the go, and can easily be slipped in a jacket pocket, bag, or purse. I reviewed the reMarkable Paper Pro earlier this year – and it was an excellent product. The only issue I took with it was the price. Not because I felt that it was overpriced, but b

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Ask HN: Looking for Headless CMS Recommendation

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-16 15:19:52

I am exploring options for a headless CMS for a community website where a non technical admin will post details about events in the community like a meeting or volunteering done by the community. They don't have funding. What is the cheapest option out there?

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I Had ChatGPT Order Me a Pizza. This Could Change Everything

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-10-19 19:52:03

Ordering a pizza online is wildly more interesting when AI does it. When OpenAI announced ChatGPT Agent, an AI-powered tool that handles complex tasks from start to finish, I didn't fully understand its capabilities. OpenAI says it can be your personal assistant, but that means little to someone who's never had one. I imagine if I did have a personal assistant, I might ask them to order me a pizza. So, that's what I did. Near CNET's New York office is a relatively new spot named Cello's Pizzer

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Disney Settles FTC Complaint With YouTube Over Children's Data Collection

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-10-19 21:36:00

Disney will pay a $10 million penalty for mislabeling videos on YouTube and allowing personal data to be collected from children without notifying parents or getting their consent, the FTC said in an announcement. The complaint filed in a US District Court, the FCC said, alleged that Disney uploaded videos to YouTube in channels that defaulted to "Not Made For Kids" when the videos should have been labeled "Made For Kids." Due to the mislabeling, videos intended for children collected more inf

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Glow-in-the-dark houseplants shine in rainbow of colours

news.ycombinator.com Bourzac 2025-10-17 00:34:36

University students might soon have something other than black-light posters to brighten their dorm rooms. Researchers have created glow-in-the-dark plants by injecting succulents with materials similar to those that make the posters light up. The fleshy plants shine as brightly as a night light, and can be made to do so in a wide variety of colours — a first for glowing houseplants, according to the team. Glow way! Bioluminescent houseplant hits US market for first time The researchers, led b

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Google avoids breakup, but has to give up exclusive search deals in antitrust trial

techcrunch.com Rebecca Bellan 2025-10-19 07:45:20

Google will not be forced to break up its search business, but a federal judge has tentatively ordered other changes to the tech giant’s business practices to keep it from further anticompetitive behavior. U.S. District Court Judge Amit P. Mehta outlined remedies on Tuesday that would bar Google from entering or maintaining exclusive deals that tie the distribution of Search, Chrome, Google Assistant, or Gemini to other apps or revenue arrangements. For example, Google wouldn’t be able to condi

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These 20- and 22-year-olds raised $5M from YC, General Catalyst to study online behavior using vision AI

techcrunch.com Tage Kene-Okafor 2025-10-20 02:03:32

Amogh Chaturvedi is running on little sleep but plenty of conviction at 6 a.m. He’s groggy, apologetic for rescheduling, and still reeling from a recent scare involving a family member and an electric scooter. Within minutes, though, the 20-year-old Stanford dropout snaps into focus, walking me through how he and his co-founders sold one startup at 19, landed in Y Combinator, and raised $5 million for their next company, Human Behavior. Launched just a few months ago, Human Behaviour is bettin

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Alphabet stock pops 9% after Google avoids breakup in antitrust case

cnbc.com Arjun Kharpal 2025-10-20 06:05:00

Alphabet shares rose 9% on Wednesday as investors viewed the result of Google's antitrust case as broadly favorable to the tech giant. The U.S. Department of Justice had proposed a sort of break-up of Google, which included divesting its Chrome browser, in an antitrust case that began in September 2023. While Google was found to hold an illegal monopoly in its core market of internet search last year, U.S. District Judge Amit Mehta ruled against the most severe consequences that were proposed

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The Download: sustainable architecture, and DeepSeek’s success

technologyreview.com Rhiannon Williams 2025-10-20 04:10:00

The must-reads I’ve combed the internet to find you today’s most fun/important/scary/fascinating stories about technology. 1 Google won’t be forced to sell Chrome after all A federal judge has instead ruled it has to share search data with its rivals. (Politico) + He also barred Google from making deals to make Chrome the default search engine on people’s phones. (The Register) + The company’s critics feel the ruling doesn’t go far enough. (The Verge) 2 OpenAI is adding emotional guardrail

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Five new Apple products are the biggest September 9 launch ‘maybes’

9to5mac.com Ryan Christoffel 2025-10-20 06:29:54

Apple’s big September 9 launch event is just days away. We’re expecting the iPhone 17 lineup, Apple Watch Ultra 3 and Series 11, and AirPods Pro 3. But beyond these near-locks, what other new products might Apple launch? Here are the five biggest wildcards that could make an appearance based on rumors. AirTag 2 September 9 launch: Likely Out of all the wildcard products in the pipeline, AirTag 2 seems especially likely to launch next week. Apple’s original AirTag launched in 2021, and we’ve

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reMarkable announces Paper Pro Move: a palm-sized paper tablet that’s priced well

9to5mac.com Michael Burkhardt 2025-10-20 06:59:33

Today, reMarkable announced a much smaller version of the reMarkable Paper Pro, dubbed Paper Pro Move. It comes in at a much lower price tag, and still packs all of the beloved features of the larger reMarkable Paper Pro. It’s designed for work on the go, and can easily be slipped in a jacket pocket, bag, or purse. I reviewed the reMarkable Paper Pro earlier this year – and it was an excellent product. The only issue I took with it was the price. Not because I felt that it was overpriced, but b

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Disney to pay $10M to settle claims it collected kids’ data on YouTube

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2025-10-20 06:13:18

Disney will pay $10 million to settle claims by the U.S. Federal Trade Commission that it mislabeled videos for children on YouTube, which allowed the collection of kids' personal information without their consent or notification to their parents. This occurred after the entertainment giant failed to tag kid-directed videos on YouTube as "Made for Kids" (MFK), a label that instructs the video streaming platform to block personal data collection and stop serving personalized ads on correctly des

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How to clear your iPhone cache (and why you shouldn't wait to do it)

zdnet.com Elyse Betters Picaro 2025-10-20 05:25:00

Kerry Wan/ZDNET Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET's key takeaways Clearing your iPhone cache effectively refreshes the system memory. It's recommended to do so regularly, but you especially should when your phone feels sluggish. There are steps you can take to clear cache from Safari, Chrome, and other browsers. You might not be thinking about it every day, but clearing your iPhone's browsing cache can greatly improve the user experience. Cache is the temporary s

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I tried this 25-inch Android tablet for a week - and the use cases were endless

zdnet.com Jack Wallen 2025-10-20 06:40:00

KTC 25-inch Android Display ZDNET's key takeaways KTC's 25-inch Android display is available for $399. Its unique form factor allows it to serve several use cases. Although the resolution and camera aren't the best, everything else is spot on. View now at KTC Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. I love that Android makes it possible for companies to create devices for various scenarios. For example, you might want to have a large touchscreen display, powered by Android, in y

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For all that's holy, can you just leverage the Web, please?

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-20 05:29:42

When I moved in with my wife Laura in 2005, we lived in a shared apartment in Barcelona that had an ancient washing machine that was just there already, no idea who initially bought it. I managed to break the washing machine door's closing mechanism some time in 2006, so for a few weeks, whenever we did the washing, we had to lean a chair against the door so it wouldn't open. At the time, we were both students and living on a small budget. Eventually, later in the same year, we bought an Electr

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AI Can't Dance. But It Says These Are the Catchiest Songs of All Time

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-10-19 14:16:00

Catchy songs have been around as long as there's been music, but it's still a mystery makes a song stick in our minds. I recently chaperoned the all-night graduation party at my daughter's high school. After hanging out at an all-games-and-rides-free arcade until 2 a.m., we took the graduates on chartered buses to a private all-ages nightclub in downtown Seattle. It boasted free unlimited fountain soda and snacks, a photo booth with props, a trivia contest, glow necklaces and, best of all, a da

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3 days left to lock in your exhibit table at TechCrunch Disrupt 2025

techcrunch.com Techcrunch Events 2025-10-20 06:30:00

Time is running out to showcase your startup in front of the most influential eyes in tech. In just 3 days, the exhibitor table deadline closes for TechCrunch Disrupt 2025 in San Francisco. And with only 10 tables still available (or fewer by the time you read this), every minute matters. If you’ve been on the fence, consider this your nudge. Disrupt 2025 isn’t just another conference. It’s the beating heart of the startup world — where founders launch, investors scout, and media take notice.

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Alphabet stock pops 8% after Google avoids breakup in antitrust case

cnbc.com Arjun Kharpal 2025-10-20 10:57:19

Alphabet shares rose 8% on Wednesday as investors viewed the result of Google's antitrust case as broadly favorable to the tech giant. The U.S. Department of Justice had proposed a sort of break-up of Google, which included divesting its Chrome browser, in an antitrust case that began in September 2023. While Google was found to hold an illegal monopoly in its core market of internet search last year, U.S. District Judge Amit Mehta ruled against the most severe consequences that were proposed

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Speeding up PyTorch inference on Apple devices with AI-generated Metal kernels

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Speeding up PyTorch inference by 87% on Apple with AI-generated Metal kernels

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I Had ChatGPT Order Me a Pizza. This Could Change Everything

Disney Settles FTC Complaint With YouTube Over Children's Data Collection

Glow-in-the-dark houseplants shine in rainbow of colours

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