Fiuu 在馬來西亞推出 Apple Tap to Pay on iPhone，將 iPhone 變成用於面對面非接觸式付款的支付終端，推動涵蓋 8 個市場與 110 種以上支付方式的付款成長，並伴隨新加坡上線及擴張計畫。 摘要：Fiuu 為馬來西亞領先的支付閘道，先前名為 Razer Merchant Services，已推出 Apple Tap to Pay on iPhone，讓商家可在不另配讀卡機的情況下接受非接觸式付款。此方案涵蓋八個市場，支援超過 110 種支付方式，繼該公司在 2025 年 12 月於新加坡推出後展開。公司計畫擴大對 JCB 與 UnionPay International 的直接收單，並將 Visa 分期選項延伸至新加坡，讓以 iPhone 為基礎的終端得以與傳統讀卡機與 HitPay 等平台競爭，並可讓商家在固定結帳地點之外收款，以降低快閃店與外送的成本。

Mastercard 已推出透過 Apple Pay 支援跨境交易，適用於其在中國發行的銀行卡，並與多家大型銀行合作。此一推展完成了 Mastercard 在大中華地區的 Apple Pay 服務，為卡片持有人提升了更多支付選項。

在蘋果的 App Store 上出現一款竄改的 Ledger Live 應用，透過竊取錢包資訊，從超過 50 名用戶手中詐走了 950 萬美元。這起事件牽涉重大損失，影響到主要投資人，引發人們對 App Store 安全性的擔憂，並促使外界討論可能對 Apple 提起訴訟。

由於行銷方式具誤導性，Apple 已將 Freecash 獎勵應用程式從其 App Store 移除。Google 正在調查，同時也有人提出對資料隱私的擔憂。Freecash 由 Almedia 所擁有，表示其廣告來自聯盟夥伴，並否認有任何不當行為。

Figure CEO Brett Adcock announces the establishment of new AI lab Hark, aimed at developing the world's most advanced personal intelligence, integrating multimodal models with customized hardware. Hark has been operating in stealth for 8 months, with plans to release its first AI model in summer. The team comprises approximately 45 people, with plans to expand to 100, and has entered into a computing power collaboration with Nvidia. Adcock has previously founded multiple startups, while Figure continues to operate independently.

The CEO of humanoid robot company Figure, Brett Adcock, announced the establishment of a new AI lab called Hark, dedicated to developing advanced personal intelligence that integrates multimodal models with custom hardware. Hark has been operating secretly for 8 months with an initial investment of $100 million, and plans to launch a new type of AI device with the first batch of models expected to be released this summer. The team has recruited talent from companies like Apple and Meta, and is collaborating with NVIDIA to leverage GPUs for model training.

Gate News report states that 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 threshold for VRAM and computing power required 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).

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 apps reduced from 15% to 12%.

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

PANews 3月5日消息，据TechCrunch报道，X將升級版私信X Chat獨立為單獨應用，稱支持端到端加密，聊天與X主App及chat.x.com同步，安卓版本“很快”推出；Apple TestFlight頁面顯示測試需iOS/iPadOS26或更高。