Gate News report: 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 VRAM and computational thresholds 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).

Gate News: According to the latest Gate TradFi data, AAPL (Apple Inc.) has surged by 0.12% in a short period. Current volatility is significantly higher than recent averages, indicating increased market

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 programs reduced from 15% to 12%.

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

Gate News: According to the latest Gate TradFi data, AAPL（Apple Inc.） has surged by 0.12% in a short period. Current volatility is significantly higher than recent averages, indicating increased market

The three major U.S. stock indices generally declined before the market opened, with the Nasdaq down 0.23%, the Dow down 0.1%, and the S&P 500 down 0.15%. All seven major tech stocks also declined, with Apple down 0.34% and Microsoft down 0.26%.

PANews March 5 News, according to TechCrunch, X will upgrade its private messaging feature X Chat into a standalone app, claiming support for end-to-end encryption, with chats synchronized with the main X app and chat.x.com. The Android version will be released "soon"; the Apple TestFlight page indicates testing requires iOS/iPadOS 26 or higher.

The three major U.S. stock indices generally rose before the market opened, with the Nasdaq up 0.18%, the Dow up 0.04%, and the S&P 500 up 0.17%. The seven major tech stocks had mixed performances, with Apple and Microsoft slightly down, while Nvidia and Tesla saw significant gains.

PANews March 2 News, according to The Information, Apple has discussed with Google the deployment and operation of Siri-related servers within Google's data centers to meet the increased demand for cloud computing power in the new version of Siri, while complying with Apple's privacy standards. The report indicates that Apple is seeking external cloud infrastructure support to advance Siri upgrades.

The three major U.S. stock indices edged higher before the market open, with the Nasdaq up 0.05%, the Dow up 0.1%, and the S&P 500 up 0.09%. Among major tech stocks, Microsoft and Alphabet rose, while Apple declined slightly.