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Apple Considers Powering Siri with AI from OpenAI or Anthropic

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Chris McKay• June 30, 2025 • 3 min read

Apple is exploring using Anthropic's Claude or OpenAI's ChatGPT to power Siri instead of its own AI models, marking a potential retreat from in-house development after repeated delays and quality issues.

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Do Airplanes Fly? Do Submarines Swim? Does AI Think?

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Chris McKay• June 9, 2025 • 7 min read

What jumbo jets, Apple’s “Illusion of Thinking,” and Japanese anime teach us about AI.

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Apple Partnering with Anthropic to Build AI-Powered Coding Assistant for Xcode

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Chris McKay• May 2, 2025 • 2 min read

The system will allow programmers to describe what they want in natural language through a chat interface, with the AI handling everything from writing code to testing user interfaces and managing bug fixes.

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Apple Pulls “Available Now” Claim from AI Ads After Watchdog Probe

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Chris McKay• April 22, 2025 • 2 min read

Apple has removed misleading “available now” claims from its Apple Intelligence marketing after the National Advertising Division found the company overstated the readiness of key AI features.

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Apple Faces Class Action Over Misleading ‘Apple Intelligence’ Promises

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Chris McKay• March 20, 2025 • 2 min read

A new class-action lawsuit claims that Apple misled consumers by advertising advanced “Apple Intelligence” features that never materialized, delaying key Siri enhancements until 2026.

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Apple is Bringing AI-Generated App Review Summaries to iOS 18.4

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Chris McKay• March 5, 2025 • 2 min read

Apple's latest iOS update will use AI to distill user reviews into quick-read summaries, potentially changing how users discover and evaluate apps.

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Apple to Invest $500 Billion in the U.S., Create 20,000 AI and R&D Jobs

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Chris McKay• February 24, 2025 • 3 min read

Apple is committing over $500 billion to U.S. investments over the next four years, including a new AI server factory in Texas, a manufacturing academy in Michigan, and 20,000 new jobs focused on AI, silicon engineering, and research.

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Apple Reportedly Partners with Alibaba for AI in China

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Chris McKay• February 11, 2025 • 2 min read

Apple apparently dropped Baidu as its initial AI partner and rejected models from other Chinese firms, including DeepSeek.

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Apple Taps Kim Vorrath to Bolster Siri and Apple Intelligence Efforts

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Chris McKay• January 24, 2025 • 2 min read

Vorrath's experience in organizing engineering groups and establishing effective workflows could be crucial as Apple works to close the gap with its competitors in the rapidly evolving AI landscape.

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Alibaba, Apple, and Synopsys Join AI Infrastructure Standards Board

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Chris McKay• January 14, 2025 • 2 min read

The newest board members of the Ultra Accelerator Link Consortium signal a collaborative push toward shaping AI server architecture.

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ChatGPT is now Available in Apple Intelligence

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Chris McKay• December 11, 2024 • 2 min read

After enabling Apple Intelligence in your device settings, you can access ChatGPT through Siri commands, system-wide writing tools, or camera controls.

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Apple Reveals Deep AWS Partnership for AI Development

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Chris McKay• December 3, 2024 • 2 min read

In a rare public endorsement, Apple executive details extensive use of Amazon's cloud infrastructure and custom chips for AI development, marking a significant shift in the tech giant's typically secretive cloud strategy.

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Apple Releases Final Cut Pro 11 with New AI Features

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Chris McKay• November 13, 2024 • 2 min read

Magnetic Mask isolates people and objects without green screens, and Transcribe to Captions generates captions using Apple's in-house language model

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Apple Offers Up to $1 Million for Researchers to Find Vulnerabilities in Its New Private AI Cloud

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Chris McKay• October 25, 2024 • 2 min read

The bounty program focuses on three main threat categories: accidental data exposure, external attacks through user requests, and vulnerabilities requiring physical or internal access.

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Apple's Ferret-UI is an AI that Can Understand and Navigate Mobile Interfaces

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Chris McKay• September 16, 2024 • 3 min read

Ferret-UI can discuss specific parts of the interface, infer the overall function of a screen, and even reason about how a user might interact with it.

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Apple's Future iPhones May Know What You Want Before You Do

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Chris McKay• September 10, 2024 • 2 min read

UI-JEPA runs entirely on your device, anticipating what you’re trying to do quickly and privately.

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NVIDIA and Apple in Talks to Join OpenAI’s Multibillion-Dollar Funding Round

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Chris McKay• August 29, 2024 • 3 min read

The funding round, reportedly led by existing shareholder Thrive Capital, is expected to value OpenAI at over $100 billion, up from its current $86 billion valuation.

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Apple Pulls AI Features from EU Launch, Citing Regulatory Concerns

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Chris McKay• June 21, 2024 • 2 min read

The decision means EU users will miss out on Apple Intelligence, the company's flagship AI initiative unveiled at its recent Worldwide Developers Conference.

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Apple's AI Announcements Spark Investor Excitement

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Chris McKay• June 12, 2024 • 1 min read

The company's market cap reached $3.244 trillion in morning trading, edging out Microsoft, but the lead didn't hold until the close.

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Apple Intelligence Explained: The Cutting-Edge AI Technology Behind the Magic

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Chris McKay• June 11, 2024 • 4 min read

By carefully balancing model performance, efficiency, and scalability, Apple is betting that it can bring the power of advanced AI models to everyday consumer devices, enhancing user experiences across its ecosystem.

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Apple Announces Key Partnership with OpenAI

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Chris McKay• June 10, 2024 • 2 min read

The deal is a validation of OpenAI's technology and a significant step forward for Apple in the AI arena.

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What is Apple Intelligence?

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Chris McKay• June 10, 2024 • 3 min read

By combining powerful generative models with personal context, Apple Intelligence aims to deliver useful and relevant intelligence right where you need it.

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5 Announcements that Show Why Copilot is the Best Platform to Build AI Products Today

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Chris McKay• May 24, 2024 • 5 min read

Microsoft has made strategic investments in talent, technology, and strategy over the past decade to drive their AI vision forward.

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Apple Reopens Talks with OpenAI for iOS 18 AI Features

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Chris McKay• April 26, 2024 • 1 min read

iOS 18 is rumored to be one of the biggest updates in the iPhone's history, with a strong focus on AI.

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Apple Enters the Open AI Arena with CoreNet and OpenELM

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Chris McKay• April 24, 2024 • 2 min read

Notably, the 1 billion parameter variant of OpenELM outperforms the comparable OLMo model by 2.36% while requiring only half the pre-training tokens.