Ukraine-based app developer MacPaw has announced a strategic partnership with Liquid AI to develop on-device AI technology for macOS, starting with its Eney assistant and eventually making the stack available to developers building apps for its Setapp platform.
Dutch chipmaker NXP Semiconductors is reportedly negotiating to acquire Ambarella, a specialist in edge-AI vision processors used in autonomous vehicles and security cameras. Ambarella's shares surged nearly 17% on the news while NXP fell over 3%.
Spire Global has partnered with SATE on STRAIDE, an 18-month research and development program funded through Italian Space Agency and UK Space Agency subscriptions to the European Space Agency, with programmatic support from ESA. The partners aim to develop and validate an AI system for satellite health monitoring, anomaly diagnosis and predictive failure analysis that could support more autonomous constellation operations.
Apple is evaluating technology from Silicon Valley startup PrismML that can compress large AI models to run directly on iPhones. The startup has demonstrated its compression technology by shrinking Alibaba's Qwen 3.6 language model to run on the iPhone 17 Pro.
Google has launched Gemma 4 12B, an open-source AI model that can analyze audio and video while running entirely on enterprise laptops with 16GB of RAM, marking a focus on smaller, locally-deployable models rather than larger cloud-based alternatives.
