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ISSUE 398EVENING

Singapore, On-Device AI, Scam Prevention, Privacy, Public Safety and Human Help

Singapore put scam detection on the phone. The warning needs an error card

Google DeepMind and GovTech Singapore built a two-stage system that looks for local scam patterns without sending conversations to a central server. That privacy win needs public numbers on mistakes, coverage and what happens after the warning appears.

#singapore#on-device-ai#scam-prevention
ISSUE 335MORNING

On-Device AI, Multimodal Search, Open-Weight Models, Private Retrieval, Edge Computing and Embeddings

Google put text, images, audio and video search into a 740-million-parameter box

EmbeddingGemma 2 turns four kinds of media into one searchable vector space and can run on consumer hardware. The small model makes local retrieval practical, but private search still depends on the rest of the app behaving itself.

#on-device-ai#multimodal-search#embeddings
ISSUE 135MORNING

Mobile AI, Semiconductor Design and Local Computing

MediaTek put the two-nanometre AI race in a phone

A new flagship chip is built to run more generative AI on the handset. The useful test is not the node name. It is what stays local, how long the battery lasts, and whether the phone still feels good in your hand.

#mediatek#on-device-ai#smartphone-chips