It’s probably for legal reasons

None I know of.

Much more likely brand reputation management.

Nobody has breached the Secure Enclave, not sure it’s doable without investing millions in direct circuit manipulation. Seems good enough

I don’t think it bothers me, as long as the audio isn’t stored… but I can definitely see why it would bother some people.

The device microphones are already always listening, this just makes use of that sound a lot more than just listening for “hey siri”.

Clickbait title…

That’s a lot of misconceptions for one paragraph…

I believe they are saying two things:

- They feel like the Swiss person above shouldn't say stuff like "the US were never friends". And... you know... they are entitled to their feelings, I guess?

- Switzerland should not have become dependent on BigTech (or any kind of external tech). Which goes in the direction of digital sovereignty.

To the point, thanks.

What misconception? The administration wrote themselves few years ago: https://www.edoeb.admin.ch/de/07032023-bundesverwaltung-fueh... Now (eventually) they seem to reconsider that this dependability might not have been a good idea. I worked for the Swiss administration myself as an external consultant for many years and have I pretty good insight.

lol somebody didn’t hear the news about Kimi and GLN 5.3 cyber

I can't wait for Qwen 27B on an ASIC

I wonder how much it would cost?

It's something that's been bugging me for a while: once we reach a "good enough" small model, and qwen 3.8 27b is already getting damn close to it, does it make sense to just bake weights and everything directly into an ASIC, and use that for highly optimized inference? AFAIK only groq and cerebras are moving in that direction, and only to be providers themselves... It would be a dream to buy one for <$1k.

This is exactly what Taalas has already done, and the reason they got quickly acquired by AMD. Their chip runs Llama 3.1 8B at 17k tok/s, and even if llama 3.1 is dated, I can think of many problems I could use it for, especially at those speeds. They're certain to be working on a newer set of weights by now.

Why is the headline trying to make it sound like it's new or a big deal?

That's a terrible sensationalist website btw...

Part of the story that says:

In 2020, researchers at the University of Washington found evidence that Anisakis worms in raw seafood have increased 280 times since the 1970s.

So that seems new or new-ish.

Is that why it's flagged?

Retaliation by Hegseth for not allowing Claude to be used for weapons systems.

"Nobody could have predicted this"

It's getting really tiresome