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Top stories today:
- iOS 26, macOS Tahoe among others to debut at WWDC 2025 today
- Apple researchers find “reasoning” models collapse
- Microsoft, Asus unveil ROG Xbox Ally, Xbox Ally X gaming handhelds
- Meta said to make massive investment in Scale AI, possibly $10B+
- Elon-Trump feud complicates xAI $5B debt raising with Morgan Stanley
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1. iOS 26, macOS Tahoe among others to debut at Apple’s WWDC 2025 at 1 PM ET today
Liquid Glass interface is rumored to overhaul Apple’s software experience.
New software nomenclature (e.g. iOS 26) this year.
Apple’s LLM access to 3rd-party developers may debut.
Apple Intelligence AI strategy may be discussed at the keynote.
Major updates to Apple apps are incoming, including games as a pre-installed app.
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3. Apple researchers find “reasoning” models collapse beyond complexity thresholds
“Reasoning” models fail on harder problems, even when they have tokens left, the researchers noted.
General LLMs outperform reasoning models on low-complexity problems, the study revealed.
However, “reasoning” models outperform general LLMs when problem complexity is medium.
The researchers considered 4 puzzles: Tower of Hanoi, Checker Jumping, River Crossing, and Blocks World.
OpenAI’s o3-mini (high and medium), Anthropic’s Claude 3.7 Sonnet (non-thinking and thinking) and DeepSeek R1 and V3 were the models tested.
Some believe that while the Apple paper is useful, it doesn’t support the idea that LLMs are “hitting a wall”
Other commentators said:
Showed LLMs fall short of AGI and can’t replace well-defined conventional algorithms: scholar and GenAI critic Gary Marcus.
Highlighted that the deeper problem isn’t LLM performance, but the persistent hubris that has shaped AI since its inception: Steven Sinofsky.
Overtrusting “reasoning” AI models could be risky, even though they often outsmart mathematicians.
