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Apple uses Siri Shortcuts to catch up to Alexa, Google Assistant
While Amazon’s Alexa and Google Assistant got busy over the past few years creating oodles of new skills and capabilities, Apple’s Siri seemed to be asleep…
Apple’s HomePod sold 1.6 million units last holiday quarter
Apple’s HomePod smart speaker experienced 45 percent growth in the holiday quarter…
Apple buys voice app startup PullString
This could help Siri better compete with Amazon’s Alexa…
Head of Apple’s Siri team apparently has been reassigned
Bill Stasior, who was lured from Amazon in 2012 to lead Siri is no longer heading the voice assistant group…
Boy, 13, arrested after telling Siri he wanted to shoot up a school
An Indiana middle schooler was busted for telling Siri he planned to open fire on a school…
Typical Siri stupidity
I thought Siri was smarter than this, but…
Apple’s HomeKit was a surprise winner of CES 2019
Without stepping foot in Las Vegas or making a single announcement of its own, Apple is having one of its best CES conferences in years…
Apple’s Siri has gotten a lot more accurate over the past 9 months
We recently tested four smart speakers by asking Alexa, Siri, Google Assistant, and Cortana…
AI guru John Giannandrea named to Apple’s executive team
Apple today announced that John Giannandrea has been named to the company’s executive team…
Why iPhones will have NVRAM-based Artificial Intelligence in 2019
Artificial Intelligence is remaking our world. But the biggest challenge is making AI work at the edge…
Apple must reinvent the Genius Bar
Apple has reached such a scale that makes the current customer service model unsustainable…
Apple’s Siri improved by 11 percentage points in correct answers over the last 15 months
As part of our ongoing effort to better understand the practical use cases of AI and the emergence of voice as a computing input…
Siri’s last remaining cofounder is out at Apple in virtual assistant shakeup
Tom Gruber, the last of three Siri voice assistant co-founders still at Apple…
Apple continues to signal the importance of AI
Apple’s head of AI, John Giannandrea, will take responsibility for Siri from Craig Federighi…
Apple combines machine learning and Siri teams under John Giannandrea
Apple is creating a new AI/ML team that brings together its Core ML and Siri teams…
Chamath Palihapitiya: Apple is a ‘productive cash machine’ but probably not so innovative now
Chamath Palihapitiya told CNBC on Wednesday he sees Apple as a massive generator of cash…
Study: Google Assistant most accurate, Alexa most improved virtual assistant
Two more studies analyzing interactions with voice search and virtual assistants were released this week…
Video: 21 minutes with the Apple’s new Head of Machine Learning and A.I. Strategy
Computers are incredibly powerful, but they’re also pretty dumb….
Apple’s Siri, HomePod and the voice assistant showdown
The battle of the smart assistants continues, and while people seem to want to get more from using Siri…
Apple’s A.I. efforts get shot of adrenaline with Giannandrea coup
Apple has been criticized for not doing enough in A.I…
A.I. defector gives Apple access to Google’s secrets
The biggest stars among Silicon Valley’s computer engineers hardly ever defect to rival teams…
Gene Munster: Poaching AI chief John Giannandrea from Google a win for Apple
Apple has hired John Giannandrea who formerly served as Google’s head of AI and Search…
Apple’s latest hire should see Siri get seriously smarter
A day after news broke of John Giannandrea’s departure from Google…
Apple hires Google’s A.I. chief to improve Siri
The 53-year-old native of Scotland known to colleagues as J.G., helped lead the push to integrate A.I. throughout Google’s products…
