On Device Ai

Qualcomm launched two new smartphone processors capable of running a 30-billion-parameter mixture-of-experts model directly on-device. This development accelerates the shift toward local AI inference, reducing latency and cloud dependency for mobile applications.

Edge Computing • TechCrunch AI

Rabbit launched OS3, a standalone agentic operating system that executes across Windows, Mac, and Linux devices without requiring proprietary hardware. By decoupling its AI agent from physical devices, the company aims to compete in the broader software agent market through cloud-native execution.

Agentic AI • The Verge AI

Morphotonics • Series B

Netherlands-based deeptech company Morphotonics raised more than €40 million in Series B funding to scale its manufacturing technology for AI glasses, augmented reality waveguides, and advanced photonics. The company is addressing a manufacturing bottleneck for AI devices.

Productivity

Generate a daily planner with Claude and send it to your e-ink device.

Apple has finally shipped its rebuilt Siri AI, built on Google's Gemini models and running partly on-device and partly through Private Cloud Compute. Early testers praise multi-step requests and screen context, but report hallucinations and gaps with some tasks. The new Siri is not available in the EU.

Product • The Decoder

China's National Medical Products Administration approved YY/T 2029–2026, the first medical-device industry standard for AI algorithms used in brain-computer interface devices, covering EEG dataset quality requirements and evaluation methods.

Regulation • TechNode

Google introduced Google Home MCP, a Model Context Protocol integration that lets third-party AI agents such as Claude and Open Claw control and monitor smart-home devices and analyze home data. The move opens Google's smart-home ecosystem to external agent developers.

AI Products • The Verge