LM Studio’s Bionic Wants to Turn Your Local AI Models into an Actual Assistant

Posted by Andru Edwards Categories: Misc. Tech, Software, Artificial Intelligence,

For a couple of years now, the pitch for running AI models on your own machine has been mostly about principle. It's private, it's free, it's yours. All true, and all a little abstract when the thing you actually got was a chat window that answered questions. LM Studio, the app a lot of people use to run open models locally, has been that chat window. Now it wants to be something you can put to work.

The company just launched Bionic, an app for Mac and Windows that it calls "the AI agent for getting real work done with open models." The key word there is agent. Instead of just talking back, Bionic is built to go do things: dig through your code, read your documents, and take actual steps toward finishing a task. And it does it on models you control, whether those run on your own hardware or on LM Studio's cloud.

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You Won’t Look At Apple’s Siri AI The Same Way After Watching This (Video)

Posted by Andru Edwards Categories: Apple, Google, Software, Videos, Artificial Intelligence,

Here's the story you probably heard: Apple fell behind on AI, panicked, and quietly handed Siri over to Google. So when a much smarter Siri showed up at WWDC, the case seemed closed. Siri was just Gemini wearing an Apple logo. It was a tidy narrative, repeated everywhere, and it turns out to be wrong.

During WWDC, I was invited to a closed-door media briefing with Craig Federighi and his team. Craig took the Google question head-on, first walking us through how a typical chatbot app like ChatGPT or Gemini works, then explaining what Apple built instead. His conclusion was blunt: "The amount of Google Assistant we use is none." No Gemini client code in iOS, none of the models Google deploys to its own customers, and not even Google Search as the foundation of Siri's world knowledge.

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Apple’s Long-Promised New Siri Is Finally Here, If You’re Willing to Beta Test iOS 27

Posted by Andru Edwards Categories: Apple, Smartphones, Software, Artificial Intelligence,

Apple has been promising a smarter, more personal Siri for so long that it started to feel like a running joke. The assistant that was supposed to understand your life, dig through your apps, and actually get things done kept slipping - announced, delayed, quietly pushed to “next year.” Well, next year is here. The new Siri just made its public debut in the iOS 27 beta, and for the first time you can actually try the thing Apple has been talking about for what feels like forever.

There’s a catch, though. A few of them, actually. This isn’t a switch that flips on your iPhone tomorrow. You have to opt into a public beta, join a waitlist, own a fairly recent iPhone, and live in the right part of the world. The upside, though, is that once you get in, the new Siri is...actually really good. For Apple, that would be a first.

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