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technology24 days ago•3 min saved

Apple debuts cryptographic photo authentication with iPhone 18 Pro

Apple revealed Apple Reference Image, a camera feature on the iPhone 18 Pro that signs captured pixel data and metadata to produce a tamper-evident 'digital negative' processed in Private Cloud Compute. The system binds the camera sensor to the Secure Enclave, signs data at capture, timestamps it, and uses cryptographic verification (RSA-3072 and ML-DSA-87) with a revocation mechanism to flag compromised sensors, enabling verifiable authenticity for photos.

via gizmodo.com|

#apple #cryptography #digital-negative

technology24 days ago•4 min saved

Apple unveils Reference Image: a quantum-secure, verifiable photo provenance system

Apple’s Security Research blog details Reference Image, a new iPhone 18 Pro camera mode that creates a verifiable, privacy-preserving photo provenance chain. The system signs raw sensor data with a device-specific key, uses cryptographic timestamps, and runs through Private Cloud Compute to produce a secure digital negative that can be revoked if later found fraudulent. It begins at manufacturing with a factory-signed key, uses post-quantum signing, and aims to keep photographer identity private while ensuring authenticity even against future quantum threats and potential edits.

via 9to5Mac|

#apple #image-provenance #photography

technology1 month ago•4 min saved

Apple's AI server packs 32 processors into a dense 2U chassis

Photos of an Apple-produced AI server (referred to as the 'M5 Server') reveal a dense 2U rack design for Apple’s Private Cloud Compute, with four columns of hardware totaling 32 processing elements, mid-column heatsinks, and front-to-back cooling; a Mac Studio may handle software control, and Apple has begun shipping Houston-made servers as it expands its AI cloud.

via AppleInsider|

#ai-servers #apple #apple-silicon

technology4 months ago•15 min saved

Apple launches third-gen Foundation Models to fuse on-device intelligence with private cloud

Apple unveils the third generation of its Foundation Models (AFM 3), spanning on-device (AFM 3 Core and AFM 3 Core Advanced) and server-based options (AFM 3 Cloud, ADM 3 Cloud, AFM 3 Cloud Pro), all designed with privacy at the core and deeply integrated into Apple operating systems. A key advance is AFM 3 Core Advanced’s sparsely activated architecture (IFP), which runs most weights from flash and loads small expert subsets into DRAM to deliver multimodal capabilities on Apple silicon. Server models leverage Private Cloud Compute (with NVIDIA GPUs for Cloud Pro) to boost speed, reasoning, and image generation. Apple emphasizes responsible AI, extensive evaluations showing strong gains over prior generations, and states that user data is not used for training. A technical report with more details is planned for later this summer.

via Apple Machine Learning Research|

#afm-3-core-advanced #apple-foundation-models #multimodal-ai

technology4 months ago•11 min saved

Apple’s AFM AI Stack Is In-House, No Gemini Involvement

Apple unveiled its third-gen Apple Foundation Models (AFM), with on-device cores and cloud services built on Apple Silicon; Apple says none of Google's Gemini components or infrastructure are used, and the suite includes AFM Cloud Pro for advanced tool use, running Nvidia GPUs in Google's cloud under a privacy-focused System Orchestrator that can be independently verified.

via MacRumors|

#afm #apple-intelligence #gemini

technology4 months ago•8 min saved

Apple's Siri to Run in Google's Gemini Cloud on Nvidia Blackwell Chips

Apple plans a redesigned Siri launching in September that will largely rely on Google's Gemini cloud AI, accelerated by Nvidia's Blackwell data-center chips (B200) with hardware-level confidential compute to encrypt data. Apple will highlight on-device AI at WWDC, but it's unclear how its Private Cloud Compute will fit into the Siri rollout after a prior attempt to run Gemini on PCC proved slow.

via MacRumors|

#apple-intelligence #google-gemini #nvidia-blackwell

technology7 months ago•4 min saved

Apple Seeks Google Cloud to Run Siri’s Next-Gen AI in the Cloud

Apple reportedly asked Google to run a future Gemini-powered Siri on Google's data centers, aiming to scale cloud capacity as its Private Cloud Compute stays largely idle and Siri’s next-generation AI looms; this follows years of reluctance to use Google Cloud, which reportedly changed security practices to address Apple’s privacy concerns.

via MacRumors|

#apple #gemini #google-cloud

technology1 year ago•4 min saved

Apple Intelligence Prioritizes Privacy Over Competitors

Apple prioritizes user privacy in its AI features by utilizing on-device models that keep data local, supported by private cloud compute for heavier requests, and maintains strict data handling policies with partnerships like OpenAI to ensure user data isn't retained or used for training, setting it apart from competitors.

via 9to5Mac|

#ai-privacy #apple #chatgpt-integration