Apple has been steadily weaving AI into its ecosystem, but with iOS 26, things take a much bigger leap forward. The introduction of the Foundation Models framework is Apple’s answer to the growing ...

While some business leaders buy large language models, others build their own. Here are five things you need to know. Many businesses are just beginning to grapple with the impact of artificial ...

General-purpose AI models are increasingly adapted by downstream developers for specialized uses — from medical transcription to legal contract analysis. This raises critical governance questions ...

Apple has turned its on-device large language model into a first-class developer tool. With iOS 26, iPadOS 26, and macOS 26, the Foundation Models framework lets you build private, offline AI features ...

WASHINGTON — A new report from the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine examines how the U.S. Department of Energy could use foundation models for scientific research, and finds ...

How much do foundation models matter? It might seem like a silly question, but it’s come up a lot in my conversations with AI startups, which are increasingly comfortable with businesses that used to ...

Foundation models—artificial intelligence systems trained on massive data sets to perform a wide range of tasks—have the potential to transform scientific discovery and innovation. At the request of ...

During the WWDC26 keynote, Apple announced its third generation of Apple Foundation Models (AFM), comprising five models, some of which are local, some of which are cloud-based, and one of which lives ...

Over the past decade or so, foundation models have emerged as the dominant paradigm for interacting with language, images, and code. Large Language Models (LLMs) can generate text. Vision models can ...