If you felt an earthquake just now, it might have been Google’s latest announcement.

Have you ever talked about a product, and then suddenly got an ad for it on your phone? We’ve all been there, and then skeptically looked over our shoulders for the advertiser lurking in the shadow. But there’s no one there, so we all simply conclude that our phone must be listening to our conversations. You wouldn’t…

I’m pretty sure we all saw this coming. Why would Apple, out of all companies, not participate in, as Gizmodo reporter Kyle Barr puts it, the AI-ification of everything? During an earnings call, Apple CEO Tim Cook said he thinks there is a “huge opportunity for Apple with generative AI and AI,” hinting that the…

Apple has been relatively absent from last year’s AI hype cycle, and Microsoft even briefly surpassed it as the
Apple is quietly stockpiling startups and hunting for talent as it fights for a slice of the AI boom
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More than 75 million people use Alexa, but by Amazon’s standards, the service is a total failure.
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Siri is Apple's voice-enabled virtual assistant powered by artificial intelligence, machine learning, and voice recognition.
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ChatGPT gained the ability to listen and talk back in September, allowing users to speak with generative AI.
