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Two of the four models run on-device. This means that none of the data ever leaves your device, and so absolute privacy is assured. The next two run on Apple Silicon chips on the company’s own Private Cloud Compute (PCC) servers. Apple has designed the architecture in such a way that absolutely no data is retained or exposed to either Apple or Google – and this fact is independently verifiable by security researchers. In other words, you don’t have to trust what Apple says: any qualified expert can check for themselves. With the most powerful model, this is running on Google servers. However,
Siri AI is powered by Gemini models, but is not Gemini – what does that mean?AI chatbot privacy ratings for the most popular iPhone apps Ben Lovejoy | Mar 25 2026 - 5:03 am PT | Mar 25 2026 - 5:03 am PT A VPN company has put together AI chatbot privacy ratings based on the data collection practices of the ten most popular AI chatbots in the App Store . …
… That enables its AI models to maximise their capabilities but at the expense of user privacy. Apple’s approach to AI privacy Although Apple Intelligence will be powered by Google’s Gemini models, the company is taking a very different approach to privacy. …
Claude chats exposed in Google searches – another endorsement of Apple’s privacy approach Ben Lovejoy | Jul 28 2026 - 5:16 am PT | Jul 28 2026 - 5:16 am PT We’ve long cautioned against disclosing sensitive personal data in AI chatbot sessions, given that most companies use these as training data, b… …
… It seems like Apple started with Gemini’s foundation models, optimized and rebuilt them for Apple Silicon and the model sizes it needs, and retrained them with its own data, weights, and guardrails. What does this mean for Apple user privacy? …
… Apple will enable Nvidia’s confidential compute feature that encrypts data as it’s being processed on the chips. The Nvidia Blackwell B200 is one of Nvidia’s flagship data center GPUs for large-scale AI training and inference. …
… In its Machine Learning Research blog, Apple says that all five models “shared a common initial foundation before specializing for their respective architectures and use cases, adding multimodal capabilities like audio, image understanding, long-context reasoning, and high-quality visual generation… …
… We’ll continue to run on the device and run in Private Cloud Compute, and maintain our industry-leading privacy standards in doing so.“ Yesterday’s report says that the new Siri app will offer us the option of having our chats automatically deleted afterwards. …
… Apple recently approved the use of a privacy technology from Nvidia in that setting, suggesting it will use Nvidia AI chips for at least some of its computing needs in Google Cloud, according to people familiar with the matter…Confidential compute is a security feature inside Nvidia graphics proces… …
… When I got the result from Spark shortly after, I really said: “Wow, that’s actually nuts.” Spark found my wife’s email address, pulled the right information from our 2026 budget spreadsheet, grabbed the monthly grocery totals including the incomplete data from May which still wasn’t over when I ra… …
MacPaw’s Mac assistant Eney is now faster thanks to a local AI model Marcus Mendes | Dec 10 2025 - 12:36 pm PT | Dec 10 2025 - 12:36 pm PT MacPaw’s Mac AI assistant is now faster and more reliable, thanks to an overhaul of its underlying technology. Here are the details. …
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