Apple confirms buyout of machine learning startup Laserlike
Apple on Wednesday confirmed its recent takeover of Laserlike, a Silicon Valley startup that applied machine learning to content discovery.
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machine learning
Roger Fingas
AI guru John Giannandrea is Apple's newest senior vice president
Apple has announced that John Giannandrea has been named to the company's executive team as senior vice president of Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence Strategy.
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Mike Wuerthele
Apple details Siri's machine learning upgrades for better listening on HomePod
Apple on Monday updated its Machine Learning Journal with a post by the company's Siri speech and audio software engineering teams, explaining how the company uses machine learning to help the HomePod hear people under tougher circumstances than iPhones and iPads.
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Apple confirms attendance at NeurIPS machine learning conference in Canada
Apple has confirmed it will be making an appearance at the 32nd Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems in Montreal, Canada, starting from December 2, with machine learning experts from the company in attendance to discuss related technologies, as well as to potentially hire more to further its own work.
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Malcolm Owen
Apple could be impacted by proposed US export ban on AI, Computer Vision, iPhone processor technology
The Department of Commerce is examining the possibility of controlling the export of emerging technologies to other nations, with the list of proposed tech including areas of interest to Apple, including processor technology, artificial intelligence, computer vision, and natural language processing.
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Siri improved small business name recognition by using local language models
Improvements to the way Siri recognizes names of small businesses and local points of interest are due to the use of language models designed for specific locations, Apple's Machine Learning Journal reveals, helping the virtual assistant understand local names for nearby places.
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Apple's Siri, Machine Learning teams now under control of new hire John Giannandrea [u]
To improve the technologies at the core of Apple's future, the company has merged the Siri and Machine Learning teams into one entity, under the control of recent hire John Giannandrea.
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Google ML Kit aims to help developers add machine learning to their iOS apps
Google launched a new machine learning SDK called ML Kit, which provides a way for developers to add machine learning-based features to their Android and iOS apps, with Google's new framework following almost a year after Apple introduced the similar Core ML platform.
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Apple to expand AI and machine learning office in Seattle, making room for 475 people
Apple is reportedly on the verge of moving into another floor at Seattle's Two Union Square, giving the company a presence on five floors of the skyscraper.
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AppleInsider Staff
