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Tag: John Giannandrea

It’s a wonder Apple’s so-called AI strategist John Giannandrea lasted so long

Wednesday, December 3, 2025 11:02 amWednesday, December 3, 20254 Comments

Apple’s AI chief, John Giannandrea, will finally exit the company after seven years at the helm, a move that gave the company’s stock…

Apple’s hiring of Amar Subramanya likely to help improve AI strategy – Wedbush

Tuesday, December 2, 2025 2:01 pmTuesday, December 2, 2025No Comments

Apple’s hiring of AI expert Amar Subramanya arrives at an ideal moment for the tech behemoth, as it ramps up efforts to bolster its AI…

Apple’s AI chief John Giannandrea to ‘retire’

Monday, December 1, 2025 5:21 pmTuesday, December 2, 20253 Comments

Apple today announced John Giannandrea, Apple’s senior vice president for Machine Learning and AI Strategy, is stepping down from his…

Apple loses yet another AI exec as head of ChatGPT-like search effort departs for Meta

Thursday, October 16, 2025 10:00 amThursday, October 16, 20253 Comments

Ke Yang, the Apple executive spearheading an initiative to create AI-powered web search capabilities, is departing to join Meta Platforms…

Apple is searching for a replacement for AI chief John Giannandrea

Friday, October 10, 2025 1:01 pmFriday, October 10, 20252 Comments

Apple is reportedly seeking a new head of artificial intelligence as John Giannandrea, the company’s current AI chief. Giannandrea has…

Senior AI and search exec Robby Walker latest to leave Apple

Friday, September 12, 2025 3:48 pm5 Comments

Apple’s Robby Walker, a top AI executive at the iPhone maker, is departing the company. Walker previously oversaw Siri…

Meta poaches another Apple AI executive

Friday, August 22, 2025 11:23 am2 Comments

Meta Platforms is hiring another key Apple artificial intelligence executive, even as the social networking company prepares to slow…

How Apple missed and still hasn’t cracked AI

Monday, May 19, 2025 11:59 amThursday, May 22, 20257 Comments

Apple’s foray into generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) with its Apple Intelligence vaporware and a promised-but-not-delivered Siri…

Apple’s earnings call: 4 key issues

Tuesday, April 29, 2025 2:10 pm2 Comments

Apple is gearing up for its Q2 earnings report on Thursday, navigating tariff and supply chain hurdles. Tariffs are a key focus…

Apple to strip not-so-secret robotics unit from struggling AI chief John Giannandrea

Friday, April 25, 2025 9:20 am3 Comments

Apple will transfer its not-so-secret robotics unit from the oversight of its struggling AI chief, John Giannandrea, to the hardware…

Apple plans to release some of its long-delayed Apple Intelligence Siri features this fall

Friday, April 11, 2025 10:01 amFriday, April 11, 20257 Comments

In an article headlined, “What’s Wrong With Apple?,” The New York Times reports Friday that Apple plans to release its delayed Apple…

Apple removes Siri from John Giannandrea, hands it over to Mike Rockwell

Thursday, March 20, 2025 1:37 pm5 Comments

Apple is finally executing a shakeup of its failed executive ranks, aiming to finally condense its Apple Intelligence vaporware after…

Apple’s Siri can’t answer ‘What month is it?’

Thursday, March 20, 2025 10:06 amThursday, March 20, 20255 Comments

“What month is it?” Siri: “Sorry, I don’t understand.” You do, however, get a cool glow around the edges of your iPhone display though…

Apple’s Siri chief calls Apple Intelligence delays ‘ugly’ and ’embarrassing,’ promises fixes someday

Friday, March 14, 2025 5:11 pmFriday, March 14, 202521 Comments

Apple’s top executive overseeing its Siri virtual assistant told staff that delays to key features have been ugly and embarrassing, and a…

Apple confirms delay of new Apple Intelligence-infused, personalized Siri

Friday, March 7, 2025 2:49 pm5 Comments

Apple has confirmed that it’s delaying the release of a new Apple Intelligence-infused Siri digital assistant, saying the company now expects…

The real, conversational Siri with Apple Intelligence not expected until 2027, at the earliest

Monday, March 3, 2025 8:55 am6 Comments

Apple’s long-promised overhaul of its long-neglected Siri digital assistant is beset with engineering problems and software bugs that…

Apple’s long-promised Apple Intelligence-infused Siri faces delays

Saturday, February 15, 2025 12:52 pm11 Comments

Apple’s long-promised overhaul of its long-neglected Siri digital assistant is beset with “engineering problems and software bugs…

Apple enlists veteran software executive Kim Vorrath to help fix AI and Siri

Friday, January 24, 2025 2:07 pm7 Comments

Apple is enlisting a seasoned professional to tackle its AI challenges. Kim Vorrath, who has spent 36 years with the company, is…

Apple teaming with OpenAI on chatbot to be announced at WWDC

Monday, May 20, 2024 9:12 amMonday, May 20, 20241 Comment

Apple is reportedly teaming up with OpenAI to add the startup’s chatbot technology to its products. The companies are preparing…

Apple plans to smarten up Siri with generative AI infusion

Friday, May 10, 2024 4:37 pmFriday, May 10, 202415 Comments

A new report suggests that Apple’s Siri virtual assistant is undergoing a major revamp with the integration of generative AI…

Apple Watch chief Kevin Lynch moved into company’s AI group

Monday, April 8, 2024 8:55 amMonday, April 8, 20246 Comments

Apple has recently moved Apple Watch project head Kevin Lynch into, and nearly atop, the company’s AI group…

Apple looks to license Google Gemini for iPhone, generative AI tools

Monday, March 18, 2024 9:18 amMonday, March 18, 202412 Comments

Apple is in talks to build Google’s Gemini artificial intelligence engine into iPhone, iPad, and other platforms, people familiar with the…

Apple stock is missing out on the artificial intelligence rally, but that could change soon

Friday, March 15, 2024 12:01 pm6 Comments

While Apple stock is missing out on the AI, especially generative AI, rally, there are increasing signs that Apple is scrambling…

Apple caught flat-footed on generative AI; company preps AI features for devices, software

Monday, October 23, 2023 9:07 am9 Comments

Tim Cook’s Apple was caught flat-footed when ChatGPT and other AI tools took the technology industry by storm. Now, after some frozen panic…

Why does Google pay Apple tens of billions of dollars annually to be Safari’s default search engine?

Thursday, September 21, 2023 2:05 pm3 Comments

Google pays Apple tens of billions of dollars annually to be Safari’s default search engine because iPhone users are…

Apple execs Eddy Cue and John Giannandrea set to testify in DOJ’s Google search trial

Thursday, September 21, 2023 10:03 am3 Comments

Two of Apple’s highest-ranking executives will testify in the U.S. Department of Justice’s trial against Alphabet subsidiary Google …

Apple said to be spending ‘millions of dollars a day’ on generative AI to supercharge Siri

Thursday, September 7, 2023 9:39 amThursday, September 7, 20238 Comments

According to a report from The Information, Apple is spending “millions of dollars a day” on generative AI to supercharge its Siri assistant…

Gene Munster: Apple’s opportunities to integrate AI are endless

Wednesday, March 22, 2023 12:02 pmWednesday, March 22, 20232 Comments

Deepwater Asset Management’s Gene Munster, a longtime Apple analyst, says that Apple’s opportunities to integrate AI are endless…

Apple loses multiple top managers from self-driving vehicle project

Wednesday, June 2, 2021 9:47 am5 Comments

In a sign of attrition within “Project Titan,” Apple’s self-driving vehicle effort, Apple has lost multiple top managers of its team in…

Apple hires former Google A.I. scientist who resigned after colleagues’ firings

Monday, May 3, 2021 3:09 pm8 Comments

Apple has hired former Google scientist Samy Bengio, who left Google amid turmoil in its artificial intelligence (A.I.) research department…

Apple reportedly discussing ‘Apple Car’ with automotive suppliers

Thursday, December 10, 2020 11:33 am23 Comments

On Wednesday, DigiTimes shared alleged details on Project Titan (“Apple Car”) autonomous vehicle development in Cupertino. Apple is…

Apple shifts leadership of autonomous vehicle systems to AI Chief

Tuesday, December 8, 2020 3:01 pm2 Comments

Bob Mansfield has retired (for good this time). Giannandrea will oversee the company’s continued work on autonomous vehicle systems…

Apple’s John Giannandrea discusses Apple silicon, artificial intelligence, and more

Thursday, August 6, 2020 11:58 amNo Comments

Machine learning and artificial intelligence are integral to nearly every feature on the iPhone and iPad, but unlike some of its competitors…

Apple buys machine-learning startup Inductiv Inc.

Wednesday, May 27, 2020 7:25 pm10 Comments

Apple Inc. bought machine-learning startup Inductiv Inc. Apple confirmed the deal, saying it “buys smaller technology companies from time to time…

Alexa wins the Apple App Store as voice control takes over

Wednesday, July 17, 2019 10:30 pm3 Comments

We are all spending more time talking to our computers. This is a changing interaction with machines…

Apple marks Global Accessibility Awareness Day with featured apps, new Siri Shortcuts

Thursday, May 16, 2019 5:35 pmThursday, May 16, 2019No Comments

With last fall’s release of iOS 12, Apple introduced Siri Shortcuts…

Are we headed for a Mac automation schism?

Thursday, May 2, 2019 11:25 am2 Comments

The Mac is currently at the start of a pretty dramatic transition…

Apple hires top Artificial Intelligence expert Ian Goodfellow from Google

Friday, April 5, 2019 10:01 amFriday, April 5, 20194 Comments

Ian Goodfellow, one of the top minds in artificial intelligence at Google, has joined Apple…

Amazon preps rival to Apple’s AirPods as its first Alexa wearable

Friday, April 5, 2019 9:33 am6 Comments

Amazon.com Inc. is trying a new way to take its Alexa digital assistant mobile…

Apple acquires Laserlike machine learning startup

Wednesday, March 13, 2019 3:49 pmWednesday, March 13, 20191 Comment

Apple has acquired Laserlike, a small Silicon Valley-based machine learning startup…

Check out these 150 custom shortcuts for Apple’s Shortcuts App

Friday, March 8, 2019 10:01 amFriday, March 8, 20193 Comments

After several months of work, I’m pleased to announce the MacStories Shortcuts Archive…

Apple’s Siri Shortcuts may just be misunderstood

Friday, March 1, 2019 6:02 pm11 Comments

Siri is paying attention to your habits and busily creating shortcuts in the background…

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