Apple is reportedly closing down a 121-person artificial intelligence (AI) team based in San Diego. This group, called Data Operations Annotations, was informed last week that they would be relocating to Austin to merge with a similar team, Bloomberg News reported Sunday (Jan. 15), citing people familiar...
Apple is reportedly investing $1 billion per year to integrate generative artificial intelligence (AI) across its product line. While the company initially lagged behind competitors like Google and Microsoft in the development of generative AI during the recent surge of interest in the technology, Apple is...
Is it Moore’s Law, or more’s law? Anyone keeping an eye on the generative artificial intelligence (AI) landscape could be forgiven for confusing the two. This, as another week has gone by, and with it another hyper-rapid clip of advances in the commercialization of generative...
The biggest imagination-capturing advances in generative artificial intelligence (AI) so far have been across text-based interfaces. Even AI-generated images and videos are having a moment. But humans could speak to one another before they could write, draw or do much else. So why is it...
July 26, 2019
Mobile order-ahead is showing no signs of slowing down, with restaurant delivery expected to grow three times faster than dine-in between 2018 and 2023. In fact, a National Restaurant Association study found that 37 percent of restaurants now offer mobile ordering, and that 32 percent accept mobile payments. It’s projected that digital orders will account […]
January 07, 2019
What makes the daily drive miserable for millions of commuters? Yes, there’s the traffic snarls, obnoxious motorists and boredom. However, for a significant share of commuters who drive their own...
September 18, 2017
Think back just five years ago. In 2012, we were five years into the smartphone revolution, and most people thought we were crazy writing about the demise of physical retail...
June 14, 2017
HomePod If the Amazon Echo is white wine and Google Home is red, then Apple’s new Siri-voiced HomePod is a fine champagne: fine-tuned, exclusive and priced to match. Fine-tuned, because...
May 05, 2024
What if Apple’s voice assistant Siri “was really, really, really good?” That question is at the heart of much of the tech giant’s artificial intelligence (AI) research, according to a report Sunday (May 5) by The Verge reviewing those efforts. For example, a team of Apple researchers has been trying to develop a way to use […]
January 14, 2024
Apple is reportedly closing down a 121-person artificial intelligence (AI) team based in San Diego. This group, called Data Operations Annotations, was informed last week that they would be relocating to...
October 22, 2023
Apple is reportedly investing $1 billion per year to integrate generative artificial intelligence (AI) across its product line. While the company initially lagged behind competitors like Google and Microsoft in the...
September 07, 2023
Apple’s Siri is reportedly getting upgraded as part of a mass uptick in AI spending. As The Information reported Wednesday (Sept. 6), the company is planning to incorporate artificial intelligence (AI) large language...
