Comment by btown
6 hours ago
Here's an interview with the senior product manager of Apple Silicon that more-or-less says the same thing: https://www.macrumors.com/2026/07/06/apple-silicon-exec-expl...
> He also described a shift toward running AI locally rather than in the cloud – a move motivated by privacy, security, and the rising cost of inference as agents consume more tokens. However, Brooks envisions a hybrid future in which agents decide what runs on-device and what gets sent to the cloud.
And coupled with their efforts in auditably-private cloud computing, that's a strong pitch.
> auditably-private cloud computing
Do those of you who have read the white paper have confidence in this claim (as I’d hope)?
Blog: https://security.apple.com/blog/private-cloud-compute/
The top threads here have commentary: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41937664
IMO - while nothing is a guarantee against a state-level actor that can compel both hardware-level bypasses and put such bypasses under a gag order, it's a well-thought-out system under those constraints. The idea of a self-auditing and self-healing fleet that requires simultaneous compromise of software and enclave hardware is a meaningful level of defense in depth against literally everything else.