Simon Willison used GPT-6 Astra to build Photo Scrubber, an experimental tool that automatically detects and blurs faces. It is based on Google's MediaPipe C++ library, compiled to WebAssembly through @mediapipe/tasks-vision, and uses the BlazeFace face detection model. All processing runs locally.
Microsoft’s new Surface computers released this week no longer use the Copilot+ PC branding, despite their specifications still meeting its requirements.
oMLX creator and maintainer Jun Kim joined Hugging Face full-time to support MLX. oMLX moves from a side project to a funded long-term effort, remaining Apache 2.0 open-source under Jun's leadership to improve stability and accelerate development.
Hugging Face added GGUF support to transformers. Users can choose a quantised checkpoint from the Hub and pass gguf_file to from_pretrained for local generation without additional configuration.
Google Research proposed PhotoScan, a deep learning framework that estimates body fat percentage, A/G ratio and V/S ratio from ordinary 2D phone photos to predict insulin resistance.
Google DeepMind released SL2T, a multilingual sign-language-to-text model, bringing the capability to consumer products for the first time. Gboard and Live Transcribe on Pixel 11 support ASL-to-English dictation, with more devices and languages to follow.
Berkeley AI Research and IBM Research extended the K-Search evolutionary kernel search framework to MLX, transferring existing CUDA kernel knowledge to Apple Silicon through a structured CUDA-to-MLX translation layer.
Google Research published an architecture attaching multi-token prediction (MTP) heads to frozen Gemini Nano v3 models, accelerating on-device inference without changing backbone weights. It has shipped with the Pixel 9 and 10 series.
Google DeepMind released Gemma 4 12B, a multimodal model for local laptop use between the edge-focused E4B and 26B MoE. Its unified encoder-free architecture feeds visual and audio inputs directly into the LLM backbone.
Google Research published a study in Nature introducing PHRM, which records video with a phone’s front camera in the seconds after face unlock and uses deep learning to estimate heart rate and resting heart rate in the background.
Google combined a new single-message encrypted aggregation protocol with TEEs, letting devices submit without multiple online rounds. Google receives only anonymised group insights; raw data is neither exposed nor reconstructed even within hardware protection. TEE attestation proves execution follows public code.
Google DeepMind released the open-source Gemma 4 family in four sizes—E2B, E4B, 26B MoE and 31B Dense—under Apache 2.0.
Mistral released the Mistral 3 family, comprising 14B, 8B and 3B small dense models and its strongest yet Mistral Large 3, a sparse MoE with 41B active and 675B total parameters. All are open-source under Apache 2.0.