Figure CEO Brett Adcock announces the establishment of new AI lab Hark, aimed at developing the world's most advanced personal intelligence, integrating multimodal models with customized hardware. Hark has been operating in stealth for 8 months, with plans to release its first AI model in summer. The team comprises approximately 45 people, with plans to expand to 100, and has entered into a computing power collaboration with Nvidia. Adcock has previously founded multiple startups, while Figure continues to operate independently.

The CEO of humanoid robot company Figure, Brett Adcock, announced the establishment of a new AI lab called Hark, dedicated to developing advanced personal intelligence that integrates multimodal models with custom hardware. Hark has been operating secretly for 8 months with an initial investment of $100 million, and plans to launch a new type of AI device with the first batch of models expected to be released this summer. The team has recruited talent from companies like Apple and Meta, and is collaborating with NVIDIA to leverage GPUs for model training.

Gate News report states that on March 17, Tether's QVAC Fabric launched the world's first cross-platform LoRA fine-tuning framework for Microsoft BitNet (1-bit LLM), significantly lowering the threshold for VRAM and computing power required for large model training. The framework supports LoRA fine-tuning and inference acceleration on Intel, AMD, Apple Silicon M series, and mobile GPUs (including Adreno, Mali, and Apple Bionic).

Apple announced that starting March 15, the commission rates for iOS and iPadOS on the China mainland App Store will be adjusted, with the standard commission rate reduced to 25%, and the commission rate for small businesses and mini apps reduced from 15% to 12%.

Gate News report indicating that on March 12, FHE infrastructure project Mind Network stated that Apple has been running fully homomorphic encryption (FHE) as core infrastructure since iOS 18. Features such as real-time caller identification can directly process user queries while data remains strictly encrypted at all times. The technology is currently supporting millions of iPhones.

PANews 3月5日消息，据TechCrunch报道，X將升級版私信X Chat獨立為單獨應用，稱支持端到端加密，聊天與X主App及chat.x.com同步，安卓版本“很快”推出；Apple TestFlight頁面顯示測試需iOS/iPadOS26或更高。

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