Apple AI Updates: April 25, 2026

1. Apple Research Introduces Long-Term Motion Embeddings for Efficient Kinematics Generation

Apple. Apple ML researchers, with collaborators at CompVis/LMU, published a method that learns compressed long-term motion embeddings from large-scale tracker trajectories, achieving 64x temporal compression and enabling efficient generation of long, realistic motions conditioned on text prompts or spatial pokes. They train a conditional flow-matching model on the embeddings and report outperforming both state-of-the-art video synthesis models and specialized motion generators on the kinematics benchmarks evaluated. The work directly tackles the cost barrier of full video synthesis when exploring multiple plausible futures — a relevant primitive for world models, robotics planning, and creative tools. Source

2. Mac Mini Sells Out Globally Amid Local-AI Demand and DRAM Crunch

Apple. Apple’s $599 base M4 Mac mini has sold out at Apple’s online store as buyers stockpile units to run local AI agents and on-device models. Resellers are listing 16GB/256GB units between $715 and $979 on eBay, and Apple has stopped accepting orders for higher-RAM configurations of Mac mini and Mac Studio amid a broader DRAM shortage. The episode underscores how shifting consumer interest toward local LLM inference is starting to influence supply dynamics for Apple Silicon hardware. Source