Apple Intelligence

Alibaba has launched Qwen Intelligence as a full-stack agentic AI platform designed for smartphones. The platform is positioned to let phone makers run AI agents that can handle tasks on a user's behalf, extending Alibaba's Qwen model family beyond cloud services and into on-device mobile experiences. Coverage so far frames it as Alibaba's push to compete in the fast-moving smartphone AI space, where Google, Apple and Chinese rivals are also racing to embed assistants.

A new leak claims the next Apple TV 4K will run on the A19 chip with 8GB of RAM, enough hardware to support Apple Intelligence features on the set-top box. If accurate, the upgrade would mark the biggest jump in the device's computing power in years and bring on-device AI to the living room. Speculation now centres on when Apple plans to announce the updated hardware.

Apple has released LensVLM-9B, an artificial intelligence model designed to read and understand compressed documents. The release suggests Apple is expanding its work in document-focused vision-language systems, and details about the model's capabilities and availability are now circulating among AI watchers. Further information on benchmarks, licensing and intended use was not immediately available.