Internal fighting and privacy concerns hinder Apple's ability to modernize Siri

A new report highlights Apple's ongoing struggles to modernize its smart assistant, Siri, at a time when artificial intelligence chatbots are poised to reign supreme.

Amber Neely 3 years ago 12

The music industry wants Apple Music & Spotify to block AI music training

AI services have been training on music hosted on streaming services like Apple Music, and Universal Music Group wants it to stop.

William Gallagher 3 years ago 18

Publishers demand to be paid for AI using their work

ChatGPT, Bard, and all AI tools are trained on existing work, and quote that work without the originators being paid or cited in most cases — and publishers say this can't continue.

William Gallagher 3 years ago 20

Apple engineers allegedly testing AI-generated language features

With ChatGPT growing ever more popular, Apple has reportedly decided to step up its game and focus on natural-language search processing.

Amber Neely 3 years ago 16

Apple says it is committed to book narrators, expands AI reading anyway

Apple has detailed how its AI-powered digital narration for books will expand, but says it is "committed to celebrating" human-read audiobooks too.

William Gallagher 3 years ago 12

Apple AI conference keynote concentrates on accessibility

Apple has given a rare speech at a global AI gathering, with vice president Ge Yue choosing to concentrate on Machine Learning in accessibility features.

William Gallagher 3 years ago 2

Apple exec who departed over office return policy joins up with Google

After his split, Apple's former director of machine learning has already moved on and has found employment with Google's DeepMind.

Amber Neely 4 years ago 25

Apple's Director of Machine Learning exits over return-to-office policy

Apple's director of machine learning, Ian Goodfellow, has resigned from the company after three years, in part due to the iPhone maker's policies about returning to work in offices.

Malcolm Owen 4 years ago 63

Safari Translation uncovers March 8 event hints on international Apple sites

Every Apple site in the world is on-message about the March 8 event - but there are tantalizing differences in how some of them are describing it.

William Gallagher 4 years ago 12

'Apple Car' needs Machine Learning to make driving decisions fast enough

Apple is planning to use Machine Learning in the "Apple Car," specifically because current processors are not fast enough to autonomously make key driving decisions without the technology.

William Gallagher 4 years ago 14

Pixelmator Pro adds automatic background removal, goes on sale

Mac image editor Pixelmator Pro has been updated to include a new "Magic Background Eraser," and for a short time is also on sale for 50% off.

William Gallagher 4 years ago 2

Apple executives to speak on machine learning, accessibility at Sight Tech Global

Two Apple executives focused on machine learning are slated to speak about accessibility at the Sight Tech Global conference in December.

Mike Peterson 4 years ago 0

Pixelmator Pro 2.2 launched with Shortcuts, M1 Max support

Mac image editing app Pixelmator Pro 2.2 Carmel has been updated to fully support macOS Monterey, and to take advantage of the M1 Pro and M1 Max processors.

William Gallagher 4 years ago 0

Apple director of AI, machine learning research to speak at Nvidia conference

Apple's senior director of AI and machine learning research, Samy Bengio, is slated to be a speaker at Nvidia's annual GTC conference in November.

Mike Peterson 4 years ago 2

New Pixelmator Pro beta brings Shortcuts & macOS Monterey support

A limited beta test of the new Pixelmator Pro 2.2 with all-new Shortcuts for Mac has been launched ahead of the image editor's release for macOS Monterey.

William Gallagher 4 years ago 1

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