Apple CEO Tim Cook envisions users being able to buy more compute for Siri AI via Apple's existing iCloud+ subscriptions.

You would have to be wholly fatuous to leak the details of an ongoing negotiation with a company as private as Apple, and from the mouth of the CEO no less, as PrismML appears to have done recently, indicating that the tidbit about its impending acquisition by Apple was nothing more than a glorified PR campaign. You don't leak details of an ongoing negotiation, especially when a company as sensitive as Apple is involved, if those talks have even a snowball's chance in hell of succeeding While speaking with CNBC earlier this week, PrismML's CEO casually lobbed a bombshell: Apple […]

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In a development that comes on the proverbial heels of China's formal approval of Apple Intelligence features for the country's consumers, Alibaba has notified that its Qwen family of AI models will be integrated into Apple Intelligence, bringing AI-powered experiences for iOS, iPadOS, macOS, and visionOS users. Users in China will now be able to access Qwen’s entire range of AI capabilities, including text, image, and content generation, directly on Apple devices Alibaba has now officially confirmed that users in China will be able to access its Qwen AI models via Apple devices, going on to note in a statement: […]

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If you’ve been waiting to try Apple’s revamped Siri without installing a developer beta, you now can. The company on Tuesday released the iOS 27 public beta, giving iPhone owners early access to its AI-powered assistant and other new features before the software’s official launch this fall.

The update is part of Apple's broader effort to make Siri feel more natural and personal, as it rebuilds the assistant around generative AI.

Apple apparently does not want Siri AI getting into controversies that might result from the remnants of biases in its training data, and it has settled on a seemingly elegant solution to minimize such gaffes. One of the first lines of prompt for Siri AI reads like a DEI litany, at least in part According to the tech guru Max Weinbach, who has been putting Siri AI through its paces, so to say, one of the first lines in the new Siri's prompt reads like an anti-bias mantra, reminding Siri that it has no emotions, body, gender, nationality, or history. […]

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A torrent of complaints from the masses finally led to Apple bringing its revamped version of its voice assistant, Siri AI, to compatible models, but this decision was merely to remove an objective from its bucket list rather than rolling something out that would bolster its sales. Despite its usefulness, we doubt that the feature will play a pivotal role in deciding your next smartphone purchases, and the proof is in the numbers. With more than 32 million shipments of the base iPhone 17 recorded in China, which doesn’t even support Siri AI, consumers want value over everything else Due […]

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Apple's claimed stance towards user privacy is admirable. Unfortunately, it is riddled with compromises and beholden to expediency, which substantially undermines the moral high road that Apple wants to appear to be a champion of. The European Commission spokesperson: "The decision not to allow Siri AI in the EU is Apple's and Apple's only" For the benefit of those who might not be aware, Apple lobbed a surprise at the end of its WWDC 2026 keynote presentation on Monday, when it disclosed that the all-new Siri AI won't launch in the EU and China on iOS and iPadOS, but would […]

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Can Apple's new AI glow up put to bed accusations that it's losing an all-important industry race?

Apple has established a sprawling and intricate compute architecture, one that ropes in Google and NVIDIA to paper over its embarrassing AI-related shortcomings. Even so, Apple's WWDC 2026 keynote answered as many questions as raised new ones. Thankfully, the Cupertino-based tech giant is now issuing clarifications at the speed of lightning, resolving lingering uncertainties on a war footing of sorts. Apple craftily obfuscates Google's contributions to its new Apple Intelligence architecture, taking pains to point out its own technologies at the core of this new paradigm We already know that Apple Intelligence consists of a combo of on-device and cloud-based […]

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The undisputed star of the show is finally here. Apple has just unveiled the all-new Siri AI, which is powered by the much-improved Apple Foundation Models. Siri AI has world knowledge as well as your personal information on its fingertips, and is fundamentally on-screen aware Apple is now debuting a fundamentally improved Apple Intelligence architecture, which consists of new Apple Foundation Models that have been distilled from the very capable Google Gemini models, all coordinated by an orchestrator. Critically, Apple is NOT using Gemini models on your devices. Of course, depending on the capability of your existing Apple device, you […]

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