APPLE ACCESSIBILITY UPDATES COMING LATER THIS YEAR: VoiceOver: camera-based scene and document descriptions Voice Control: natural-language device commands Magnifier: voice-controlled zoom iPhone video: on-device subtitles Accessibility Reader: support for tables, columns and complex layouts Vision Pro: eye-controlled motorized wheelchair support tvOS: Larger Text support FaceTime: API for human sign-language interpreters iOS, iPadOS, macOS: Sony Access controller support Apple Intelligence is getting applied to accessibility before many of the flashier AI use cases. Image credit: MacRumors

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We release Needle 3: A Sliceable 8-29MB automation foundation model that can match DeepSeek V4 Flash. One set of weights, every depth from 2 to 20 layers a model of its own, 25-121M parameters at CQ2-bit, built on our Simple Attention Networks and running locally at up to 4k tokens/sec decode speed on a Raspberry Pi 5. Needle does not chat. Every turn is a function call: give it the tools your app exposes and it picks the right ones and fills every argument from what the user said, or hand it a schema and it returns a typed record. Ask for something no tool covers and you get an empty list, not a guess. That trade is lets 121M parameters trained on 360B tokens of structured data beat models 10x their size on mobile tool calls and match 2-3x bigger models on structured JSON extraction. It runs on mobiles, wearables, smart home devices, small robots and microcontrollers, with prebuilt engines for macOS, Linux, Windows, Android, iOS, watchOS, tvOS, the browser and WASI hosts. Try it in your browser:

A long time ago, I turned on beta updates for my 2nd Gen Apple TV 4K. Today I finally checked to see what version it was using. It was Apple TV OS 18.6. I asked Siri what the latest version was, and she said 27. 😮 I was incredulous. I then turned off beta updates, and Apple TV OS 27 immediately downloaded. The crazy thing? I can’t tell any difference, nine OS versions later. We need an updated Apple TV!