Engineering Insights

Watch the WWDC24 Platforms State of the Union

WWDC24 Tune in at 1 p.m. PT on June 10 to dive deep into the newest advancements on Apple platforms. Platforms State of the Union Watch now Platforms State of the Union (ASL) Watch now

Improving India’s critical care infrastructure

Price and tax updates for apps, In-App Purchases, and subscriptions

The App Store is designed to make it easy to sell your digital goods and services globally, with support for 44 currencies across 175 storefronts. From time to time, we may need to adjust prices or your proceeds due to changes in tax regulations or foreign exchange rates. These adjustments are made using publicly available exchange rate information from financial data providers to help make sure prices for apps and In-App Purchases stay consistent across all storefronts. Price updates On June 21

Introducing the 2024 Apple Design Award winners

Every year, the Apple Design Awards recognize innovation, ingenuity, and technical achievement in app and game design. The incredible developers behind this year’s finalists have shown what can be possible on Apple platforms — and helped lay the foundation for what’s to come. We’re thrilled to present the winners of the 2024 Apple Design Awards. Meet this year’s winners

Extracting Concepts from GPT-4

Using new techniques for scaling sparse autoencoders, we automatically identified 16 million patterns in GPT-4's computations.

Launching the Artificial Analysis Text to Image Leaderboard & Arena

Elastic Platform 8.14: ES|QL GA, encryption at rest, and vector search optimizations

Elastic Platform 8.14 includes ES|QL GA, the use of AI for pattern recognition in logs, API key based security model for remote clusters, encryption at rest with KMS keys, retrievers, several vector optimizations, and vector quantization by default.

Introducing NPC-Playground, a 3D playground to interact with LLM-powered NPCs