When we were updating to macOS 14.6, Apple released the first beta of 15.1 to developers. Does this mean it’s skipping straight past 15.0 to bring you its new AI tools?
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How we have gone from spell-checking, through optical character recognition, to Sequoia’s new Writing Tools that can proofread and summarise text.
Which Macs will run Sequoia, and which are stuck on older macOS? Are there any new emoji, and what about ChatGPT?
When will we learn about macOS 15? What important changes will it bring? When will the public beta be available? Will there be any new Macs?
The big question for WWDC is how Apple is going to put more distance between features for Intel and Apple silicon Macs? Here are some suggestions.
Has Apple fallen behind in ML and AI? Why hasn’t it got its own Large Language Model, and how can it possibly catch up now?
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Text can be searched by eavesdroppers and crawlers to discover its content and extract it for other purposes. How to make their task more difficult using Unicode.
Apple’s M2 chip uses a newer version of the CPU core instruction set. This increases its capability, thus how well it will cope with future apps and macOS, compared with the M1.
M1 CPUs support ARMv8.5A, which doesn’t support the new bfloat16 floating-point format now widely used in AI. That’s likely to put them at a disadvantage.
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