Apple's in early talks with PrismML, a Caltech spinout that just showed it can take a 27-billion-parameter model, shrink it from 54GB down to under 4GB, and run the whole thing on an iPhone — no cloud round-trip required. The technique strips each weight down to almost nothing, one to three possible values instead of the usual 16-bit precision, and the payoff is real: 10-15x less memory, 6-8x faster responses, a third to a sixth of the power draw, with only a small hit to accuracy that shows up mostly in factual recall rather than reasoning or math. It's early, unproven at scale, and Apple hasn't confirmed anything. But if it holds up, it's a preview of where this is all heading — the intelligence moving off the server and onto the device in your pocket, closer to you, faster, and harder for anyone else to see.

My guess is that if you use Claude too much, you're probably at least suspicious. But I guess it's nice the Anthripic knows too?

"The feature is called Reflect, and it landed in beta on Thursday. It is a dashboard, tucked into Claude’s settings, that shows you how you have been using the chatbot. Anthropic describes it as a way to “see your patterns and shape them”. Most of the press has a blunter name for it: Claude Wrapped."

Tiny Tiny homes makes what has to be the smallest tiny home on the market... 48 sqft.

Meta released a new tool this week called Muse Image, and buried inside the announcement is a detail worth your attention: if your Instagram account is public, any Meta user can now pull your posts and Reels into an AI generator and remix them into something new. Flattering or not. With or without your knowledge. Meta frames this as a creative feature, and for your own photos it probably is. But the setting that lets strangers do it to you is on by default, and turning it off takes about thirty seconds.

Open Instagram, go to Settings, find "How others can interact with you," tap "Sharing and reuse," and switch off the toggles for Posts, Reels, and original audio. You do not have to make your account private to protect what you post there. You just have to decide, on purpose, who gets to reuse it.

The civil liberty and privacy risks of smart glasses should be obvious. They certainly are to me. From this article, "Meta's current AI smart glasses have an LED in the corner of the frame that lights up to signal to others when a wearer is taking photographs or filming. But Meta executives don't want to activate the LED when the super-sensing features are turned on."

That should concern you. It concerns me.

Teenage boys are entering high schools woefully unprepared in terms of reading a recent study in of children’s reading habits in the UK and Ireland found. Not shocking to me.

"Tech tends to be the culprit educators single out for plunging literacy rates, and rightfully so. Kids, just like their parents, are hooked on smartphones and social media apps, getting their attention spans fried by short form videos and infinite scrolling. "