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Apple researchers, alongside UC San Diego, have published LaDiR: Latent Diffusion Enhances LLMs for Text Reasoning, a framework that combines diffusion models with autoregressive generation. The system runs multiple reasoning paths in parallel during inference, each exploring different possibilities before generating a final answer.

Google Cloud CEO Thomas Kurian confirmed during the Cloud Next '26 keynote that Google is building Apple Foundation Models based on Gemini technology to power the next generation of Siri. Apple is expected to unveil the first features at WWDC 2026 on June 8, with release planned for iOS 27 in September 2026.

Apple will present nearly 60 research studies and technical demonstrations at the International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR) running April 23-27 in Rio de Janeiro. Demos include the SHARP model that reconstructs photorealistic 3D scenes from a single image in under one second, running on iPad Pro with M5 chip.

Apple has secured full access to Google's Gemini models within its data centers and is using knowledge distillation to generate training data for smaller, on-device AI models. The approach allows Apple to create lightweight versions that replicate Gemini's reasoning patterns while running directly on Apple devices, requiring significantly less processing power.

Apple researchers developed RubiCap, a framework for training dense image captioning models that achieve state-of-the-art results at 2B, 3B, and 7B parameter scales. The 7B model outperforms models up to 72 billion parameters on multiple benchmarks including CapArena and CaptionQA, while the 3B variant matches larger 32B models, suggesting efficient dense captioning doesn't require massive scale.

Perplexity announced Personal Computer today, a cloud-based AI agent that runs on a continuously operating Mac mini to merge local applications with Perplexity's AI capabilities. The system operates 24/7, accessible from any device, and maintains integration with users' files and applications through a secure local connection.

Apple has asked Google to set up servers specifically for hosting a new Gemini-powered version of Siri that meets Apple's privacy requirements, according to The Information. This represents a deeper infrastructure partnership beyond the January announcement that Google's Gemini models would power upgraded Siri features.

Apple Intelligence, which automatically summarizes notifications and messages on hundreds of millions of devices, systematically generates stereotyped and hallucinated content according to an independent AI Forensics investigation. The analysis of over 10,000 AI-generated summaries reveals bias baked into the feature that pushes problematic assumptions to users unprompted.