Apple's generative AI, Apple Intelligence, also generates some usage reports. Here's how to turn off the Apple Intelligence Report in macOS.How to turn off Apple Intelligence Reports in macOS.Apple's much-anticipated AI features dubbed Apple Intelligence have been released for most Apple platforms on recent hardware. Public reception has been, shall we say, less than enthusiastic - with some reports claiming up to 73% of Apple users have no interest in the technology.Others, such as BBC have complained that Apple Intelligence isn't ready for prime time - with Apple devices reporting erroneous news headlines after creating summaries. Continue Reading on AppleInsider | Discuss on our Forums

The 2025 edition of theWorld Monuments Fund (WMF)'s biannual World Monuments Watch List has been announced with 25 new cultural sites considered to be under threat from a variety of different sources both natural and manmade.Leading the list was the notable and important inclusion of the "Historic Urban Fabric"of Gaza. Weve covered the difficult-to-account scale of destruction there since the beginning of the Israeli military incursion, which has to date destroyed at least 66% of all buildings (per the U.N.) and countless important heritage sites. Ukraines equally prolific war losses were also represented by the Kyiv Teachers House which was damaged by Russian missiles in October of 2022.Kyiv Teachers House, Ukraine. Photo: World Monuments FundThe Moon (yes) is another off-beat, if not peculiar, inclusion. The Fund says: "As a new era of space exploration dawns, international collaboration is required to protect the physical remnants of early Moon landings and preserve these...

Nintendo seemingly has bigger fish to fry in the days ahead with the Switch 2 allegedly set to be announced imminently, but the Japanese giant has other irons in the fire as well.Donkey Kong Country Returnsis set to return (for the second time) soon, and ahead of its release, Nintendo has premiered a launch trailer. Check it out below.Handled by Forever Entertainment, you should expectDonkey Kong Country Returns HDto be a fairly conservative remaster. Its changes and additions will include a remade intro, minor visual enhancements, new JoyCon features, QoL improvements and new content carried over from the platformers 3DS version, and the like. The original remains a modern platforming classic, however, so those wishing to experience it for the first time (or re-experience it) will want to keep an eye out.Donkey Kong Country Returns HDlaunches for the Nintendo Switch on January 16. Curiously, the remaster doesnt credit the work of original developer Retro Studios. Read more on that through here.

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Justin Carter, Contributing EditorJanuary 15, 20252 Min ReadImage via Xbox.At a GlanceIt's unclear what a 'small' round of layoffs are for Microsoft, or why it's reducing its video game team to begin with.Business Insider reports Microsoft is eliminating positions across the company. Two sources speaking to the outlet claimed these reductions were "small," and will affect its security, video game, and sales divisions.It's unclear what "small" means in this context, considering Microsoft's size and the various divisions and companies under its umbrella. When it laid off 1,900 employees in January 2024, the company noted it had 22,000 staff in its video game division.Last week, Microsoft confirmed upcoming layoffs to Business Insider targeting "underperforming" employees. Today's cuts are apparently unrelated to those terminations.For Microsoft, this marks its third consecutive year of laying off video game workers. Around this time in 2023, it laid off 10,000 employees from its overall workforce. First-party Xbox teams like 343 Industries (now Halo Studios), The Coalition, and Bethesda Game Studios were impacted. 343 was said at the time to be hit the hardest, which prompted several ex-developers to claim Microsoft had mismanaged the studio during Halo Infinite's development.Last year, Microsoft laid off an eye-popping number of workers after the acquisition of Activision Blizzard. At the time, Xbox boss Phil Spencer said the staff cuts would ensure it and Activision leadership were "all aligned on the best opportunities for growth."Cuts continued into 2024, with Microsoft closing Arkane Austin and Tango Gameworks and laying off corporate workers and support staff. Last May, Microsoft admitted it spread itself too thin after the Activision acquisition and began offering some workers buyouts.It was Arkane and Tango's shutdowns that drew the most criticism from the industry. At the time, the Communications Workers of America said those closures should further spur game developers to unionize. The union had previously commended Microsoft for not interfering with the forming of unions across its various subsidiaries. It later condemned the tech company for lacking "respect and compassion" by cutting so many jobs.Business Insider's latest story did not provide a reason as to why Microsoft is cutting staff in its game division. Its sources mainly focused on the cuts to the company's security team, but had no insight for the other two divisions.Read more about:Layoffs[Company] XboxAbout the AuthorJustin CarterContributing Editor, GameDeveloper.comA Kansas City, MO native, Justin Carter has written for numerous sites including IGN, Polygon, and SyFy Wire. In addition to Game Developer, his writing can be found at io9 over on Gizmodo. Don't ask him about how much gum he's had, because the answer will be more than he's willing to admit.See more from Justin CarterDaily news, dev blogs, and stories from Game Developer straight to your inboxStay UpdatedYou May Also Like

The growing reliance on AI models for edge and mobile devices has underscored significant challenges. Balancing computational efficiency, model size, and multilingual capabilities remains a persistent hurdle. Traditional large language models (LLMs), while powerful, often require extensive resources, making them less suitable for edge applications like smartphones or IoT devices. Additionally, delivering robust multilingual performance without straining hardware capabilities has proven elusive. These challenges highlight the need for efficient and versatile LLMs designed with edge environments in mind.Kyutai Labs has released the Helium-1 Preview, a 2-billion parameter multilingual base LLM tailored for edge and mobile environments. Unlike many of its predecessors, Helium-1 is designed to perform comparably or better than models like Qwen 2.5 (1.5B), Gemma 2B, and Llama 3B, all while maintaining a compact and efficient design. Released under the permissive CC-BY license, Helium-1 aims to address critical gaps in accessibility and practical deployment.Based on transformer architecture, Helium-1s focus on multilingual capabilities makes it particularly valuable for applications requiring language diversity. The models edge-optimized design ensures that developers can deploy it in environments with limited computational resources without compromising performance. These attributes position Helium-1 as a significant step forward in accessible AI for diverse global use cases.Key Technical Features and AdvantagesThe Helium-1 Preview incorporates several technical features that enable its impressive performance:Balanced Architecture: With 2 billion parameters, Helium-1 strikes a balance between computational efficiency and capability. It utilizes token-level distillation from a larger 7-billion parameter model, ensuring quality outputs while minimizing complexity.Extensive Training Data: Helium-1 was trained on 2.5 trillion tokens, providing it with a strong foundation for understanding and generating a wide range of languages. Its 4096-token context size supports handling longer text inputs effectively.Edge-Focused Optimization: Designed for deployment in resource-constrained settings, Helium-1 minimizes latency and memory usage, making it ideal for mobile and IoT applications.Open Access: The CC-BY license ensures that developers and researchers can freely adapt and build upon the model, encouraging further innovation.Performance and ObservationsInitial evaluations of Helium-1 reveal strong performance across multilingual benchmarks, often surpassing or matching models such as Qwen 2.5 (1.5B), Gemma 2B, and Llama 3B. These results highlight the effectiveness of its training strategies and optimizations.Despite its relatively small size, Helium-1 exhibits impressive versatility. It handles complex queries with accuracy and generates coherent, contextually relevant responses, making it suitable for applications like conversational AI, real-time translation, and mobile content summarization.ConclusionHelium-1 Preview represents a meaningful step forward in addressing the challenges of deploying AI models on edge and mobile platforms. By effectively balancing multilingual capabilities and computational efficiency, Helium-1 sets a precedent for future developments in this space. Its scalability, coupled with Kyutai Labs open-source ethos, underscores its potential to broaden access to high-performing AI technologies. As development continues, Helium-1 is poised to play a pivotal role in shaping the future of AI on edge and mobile devices, empowering developers and benefiting users globally.Check out the Details and Model on Hugging Face. All credit for this research goes to the researchers of this project. Also,dont forget to follow us onTwitter and join ourTelegram Channel andLinkedIn Group. Dont Forget to join our65k+ ML SubReddit.(Promoted) Asif RazzaqAsif Razzaq is the CEO of Marktechpost Media Inc.. As a visionary entrepreneur and engineer, Asif is committed to harnessing the potential of Artificial Intelligence for social good. His most recent endeavor is the launch of an Artificial Intelligence Media Platform, Marktechpost, which stands out for its in-depth coverage of machine learning and deep learning news that is both technically sound and easily understandable by a wide audience. The platform boasts of over 2 million monthly views, illustrating its popularity among audiences. Meet 'Height':The only autonomous project management tool (Sponsored)

A mod dedicated to recreating Liberty City within Grand Theft Auto 5, as a mod, has shut down.Insider-Gaming reports that the Liberty City Preservation Project, a mod meant to recreate the setting of GTA 4 as a mod for GTA 5, has been taken down at the request of Rockstar Games. In a statement on Discord, user nkjellman said "Due to the unexpected attention that our project received and after speaking with Rockstar Games, we have decided to take down the Liberty City Preservation Project."Rockstar is well-known for asking modders to take down various mods like this AI-powered GTA 5 story mode mod, or a VR mod for Red Dead Redemption 2. The Liberty City Preservation Project take down is also not without direct precedent as Rockstar issued a take-down for a mod that tried to recreate Grand Theft Auto Vice City within GTA 5.One interesting development is that while Rockstar is judicious when it comes to taking down mods, they also sometimes hire those very modders to work at Rockstar Games. And some mods, like the Vice City mod, were taken down only for Rockstar themselves to announce remasters of those very games. PlayIGN's Twenty Questions - Guess the game!IGN's Twenty Questions - Guess the game!To start:...try asking a question that can be answered with a "Yes" or "No".000/250This isn't to say Rockstar is working on a GTA 4 remaster, by any means, but there's certainly precedent. Still it may be years away before we get an answer as we know Rockstar is currently hard at work trying to ready the highly-anticipated Grand Theft Auto 6 for a 2025 launch.Matt Kim is IGN's Senior Features Editor.

Apple TV+ closed out last year on a high note, but the streamer has already prepped a big lineup of shows and movies for early 2025 too. Here are the top 10 TV shows coming to Apple TV+ soon.JanuarySeverance (season 2)When: January 17Genre: Sci-fi ThrillerMark Scout (Adam Scott) leads a team at Lumon Industries, whose employees have undergone a severance procedure that surgically divides their memories between their work and personal lives. This daring experiment in work-life balance is called into question as Mark finds himself at the center of an unraveling mystery that will force him to confront the true nature of his work and of himself. In season two, Mark and his friends learn the dire consequences of trifling with the severance barrier, leading them further down a path of woe.Prime TargetWhen: January 22Genre: Conspiracy ThrillerPrime Target features a brilliant young math postgraduate, Edward Brooks (played by Leo Woodall), who is on the verge of a major breakthrough. If he succeeds in finding a pattern in prime numbers, he will hold the key to every computer in the world. Soon, he begins to realize an unseen enemy is trying to destroy his idea before its even born, which throws him into the orbit of Taylah Sanders, a female NSA agent (played by Quintessa Swindell) whos been tasked with watching and reporting on mathematicians behavior. Together, they start to unravel the troubling conspiracy Edward is at the heart of.Mythic Quest (season 4)When: January 29Genre: Workplace ComedyBack under the same florescent office lights, the reunited team at Mythic Quest confronts new challenges amongst a changing video game landscape as stars rise, egos clash, relationships bloom and everyone tries to have a little more work work life balance.FebruaryLove You to DeathWhen: February 5Genre: Comedy (Spanish language)Love You to Death (A muerte) tells the story of the cautious Ral (Joan Amargs), who reconnects with free-spirited and newly pregnant Marta (Vernica Echegui) following his heart cancer diagnosis. They resume a friendship that began in childhood, and in a relationship brought together by fate, begin to test their beliefs about love. Can the commitment-phobic Marta fall in love? And can Ral meet the love of his life?Berlin ERWhen: February 26Genre: Hospital Drama (German language)Managing a chaotic emergency room in the toughest and most overcrowded hospital in Berlin is no small task for the young Dr. Parker, who is seeking a fresh start in the big city after her private life implodes in Munich. When she tries to implement necessary reforms, Parker is confronted with resistance from the underpaid, ill-equipped and chronically fatigued hospital staff who only survive with an indispensable dose of black humor. But in the face of an increasingly merciless healthcare system, the battered team must put aside their differences and pull together to save lives.MarchDope ThiefWhen: March 14Genre: Crime DramaBased on Dennis Tafoyas book Dope Thief, the series follows long-time Philly friends and delinquents who pose as DEA agents to rob an unknown house in the countryside, only to have their small-time grift become a life-and-death enterprise, as they unwittingly reveal and unravel the biggest hidden narcotics corridor on the Eastern Seaboard.The StudioWhen: March 26Genre: ComedyIn The Studio, Seth Rogen stars as Matt Remick, the newly appointed head of embattled Continental Studios. As movies struggle to stay alive and relevant, Matt and his core team of infighting executives battle their insecurities as they wrangle narcissistic artists and craven corporate overlords in the ever-elusive pursuit of making great films. With their power suits masking their never-ending sense of panic, every party, set visit, casting decision, marketing meeting and award show presents them with an opportunity for glittering success or career-ending catastrophe. As someone who eats, sleeps and breathes movies, its the job Matts been pursuing his whole life, and it may very well destroy him.Side QuestWhen: March 26Genre: Anthology ComedyAn expansion of the Mythic Quest universe, Side Quest explores the lives of employees, players and fans who are impacted by the game in an anthology format.AprilYour Friends & NeighborsWhen: April 11Genre: DramaAfter being fired in disgrace, a hedge fund manager still grappling with his recent divorce, resorts to stealing from his neighbors homes in the exceedingly affluent Westmont Village, only to discover that the secrets and affairs hidden behind those wealthy facades might be more dangerous than he ever imagined.Government CheeseWhen: April 16Genre: ComedyGovernment Cheese is a surrealist family comedy set in 1969 San Fernando Valley that tells the story of the Chambers, a quirky family pursuing lofty and seemingly impossible dreams, beautifully unfettered by the realities of the world. When Hampton Chambers (David Oyelowo) is released from prison, his long-awaited family reunion doesnt go quite as hed planned. During his absence, Hamptons wife, Astoria (Simone Missick), and sons, Einstein (Evan Ellison) and Harrison (Jahi DiAllo Winston), have formed an unconventional family unit, and Hamptons return spins their world into chaos.Which of these new Apple TV+ shows are you most excited about? Let us know in the comments.Best Apple TV and Home accessoriesAdd 9to5Mac to your Google News feed. FTC: We use income earning auto affiliate links. More.Youre reading 9to5Mac experts who break news about Apple and its surrounding ecosystem, day after day. Be sure to check out our homepage for all the latest news, and follow 9to5Mac on Twitter, Facebook, and LinkedIn to stay in the loop. Dont know where to start? Check out our exclusive stories, reviews, how-tos, and subscribe to our YouTube channel

*Audible groaning*Hoax on YouIn response to the rising tide of social media-spread misinformation in the 2010s, the social media behemoth Meta-formerly-Facebook built machine learning systems that proactively identified and limited the spread of viral fake narratives. Now, as reporting from Platformer reveals, it's switched those hoax-tracking systems off.The automated systems have targeted bonkers and sometimes physically dangerous narratives, like the eternally stupid Pizzagate conspiracy theory. By Meta's own admittance, the effort has been extremely effective: according to internal documents reviewed by Platformer, the machine learning tools have limited the spread of viral misinformation with an astonishing over 90 percent effectiveness.Meta hasn't publicly addressed the choice to deactivate its hoax trackers. But last week, as flagged by Platformer, the company's recently-promoted new Head of Global Policy claimed in a blog post that Meta's torpedoed safety practices have unjustly demoted "too much content that our systems predict might violate our standards.""We are in the process of getting rid of most of these demotions," the blog adds, seemingly alluding to Meta's automated misinformation-limiting programs, "and requiring greater confidence that the content violates for the rest."Chain Letter OfficeThe decision to axe the hoax-trackers was made amid broader, deeply controversial changes to Meta's overall trust and safety practices across its many platforms, which CEO Mark Zuckerberg the Silicon Valley giant's "unimpeachable king," as The Atlantic'sCharlie Warzel recently put it, given the billionaire's iron-clad corporate control over the company characterized in a video as a company effort to "get back to our roots around free expression."These allegedly free speech-oriented changes include the sunsetting of its third-party fact-checking program, as well as a renewed allowance of dehumanizing language on the platform. Users across Meta platforms are now allowed to misgender trans people,refer to women as "household objects or property" or declare themselves to be "proud racists."Efforts to combat bad or harmful information, meanwhile, will be regulated mostly to a user-centered model reminiscent of X-formerly-Twitter's "Community Notes" system.Meta's move to phase out its automated hoax-tracking systems fits into this wider tapestry of Zuckerberg-led policy changes at the company. As it stands, it's unclear how these many changes will ultimately impact the day-to-day experience of Meta users, not to mention our broader information ecosystem. But they've certainly curried favor with incoming president Donald Trump, who previously in a coffee table book, no less threatened to jail Zuck over false allegations of election interference.Allegations, by the way, that Zuckerberg will presumably have to rely on random Meta users to correct.More on Meta's current vibe: Facebook Is Creating Fake AI-Powered Black Women While Changing Its Rules So Its Okay to Harass Real OnesShare This Article

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