🚀 RELEASES & LAUNCHES
Perplexity open-sources Lily, a Qwen3.6 inference server for Apple GPUs
Perplexity open-sourced Lily, a Metal inference server for quantized Qwen3.6-35B-A3B.- Lily targets developers running local inference on M5-or-newer Apple GPUs with macOS 26 or later.
- The Apache-2.0 server runs one Qwen3.6-35B-A3B checkpoint using MLX affine 4-bit weights and exposes a minimal OpenAI-compatible chat API.
- Lily supports greedy decoding, a two-entry prefix cache, and up to 262,144 tokens within the kernel limit.
- The release gives builders a specialized Rust-and-Metal path for serving Qwen3.6 locally on Apple silicon.
Developer uploads 5.94 billion scraped TikTok videos to Hugging Face
A developer released a free Hugging Face dataset containing 5.94 billion scraped TikTok videos.- The dataset is aimed at machine-learning researchers and data scientists.
- DataShack says it collected 5.94 billion videos and 3.23 billion profiles in three weeks.
- The release offers large-scale TikTok data for research, while the collection method may violate TikTok’s terms of service.
💰 BUSINESS & FUNDING
- Palo Alto Networks Acquires Console for Reported $500 Million
Palo Alto Networks acquired AI agent startup Console to automate enterprise security operations.- Enterprise security teams and Cortex users are the target adopters.
- Palo Alto Networks acquired Console, an AI-native platform for natural-language agentic workflows.
- Console connects identity, SaaS, security and other systems to investigate alerts, prioritize work and automate actions.
- TechCrunch reported the deal was worth $500 million in cash and stock; official terms were not disclosed.
- The acquisition adds Console’s automation technology to Cortex, enabling security workflows beyond manual alert and ticket handling.