Apple brings its GenAI ‘Apple Intelligence’ to developers, will let Siri control apps
Apple Intelligence, Apple’s new generative AI offering, won’t just be a consumer-facing feature; developers will be able to take advantage of the latest technology, too. In Apple’s keynote address at WWDC 2024 on Monday, the company announced that developers would be able to integ
Apple Intelligence features will be available on iPhone 15 Pro and devices with M1 or newer chips
Apple announced a ton of new AI features under the new Apple Intelligence moniker at WWDC 2024. While the features are free to use, only a limited number of devices will get access to them.
These devices include iPhone 15 Pro along with iPad and Mac with M1 or newer chips. So older iPhones or iPho
Apple brings ChatGPT to its apps, including Siri
Apple is bringing ChatGPT, OpenAI’s AI-powered chatbot experience, to Siri and other first-party apps and capabilities across its operating systems. The tech giant announced the news during a keynote at WWDC 2024 in Cupertino on Monday.
“We’re excited to partner with Apple to bri
Apple gives Siri an AI makeover
Siri got a makeover at Apple’s WWDC 2024 in Cupertino, courtesy of the tech giant’s overarching generative AI push this year, called Apple Intelligence.
Siri is now more natural, more relevant and more personal — and it has a new look, including a revamped icon. The assistant pops up
Apple Intelligence is the company’s new generative AI offering
On Monday at WWDC 2024, Apple unveiled Apple Intelligence, its long-awaited, ecosystem-wide push into generative AI. As earlier rumors suggested, the new feature is called Apple Intelligence (AI, get it?). The company promised the feature will be built with safety at its core, along with highly per
Calculator for iPad does the math for you
One way to know for sure that you’re at a developer conference: The crowd gets really excited when you announce a new Calculator app. The addition of the app got (by far) the biggest applause pop at WWDC 2024 so far. Granted, the company has an hour or so left to announce all of its intellige
Apple unveils iOS 18 with tons of AI-powered features
Apple shared the first details for the upcoming major release of iOS, its operating system specifically designed for the iPhone, at WWDC 2024.
As expected, this is a pivotal moment for the mobile platform as iOS 18 is going to focus on artificial intelligence.
“I’m excite
visionOS can now make spatial photos out of 3D images
Apple today kicked off what it promised would be a packed WWDC 2024 with a handful of visionOS announcements. At the top of the list is the ability to turn existing images into spatial photos. The new feature utilizes machine learning to build out additional angles, marking a change from the existi
Apple needs to focus on making AI useful, not flashy
Google and Microsoft have made their developer conferences a showcase of their generative AI chops, and now all eyes are on next week’s Worldwide Developers Conference, which is expected to mark the debut of Apple Intelligence.
The Cupertino-based company is facing a lot of pressure. Apple h
Meta adds AI-powered features to WhatsApp Business app
Last year, during the Q3 2023 earnings call, Mark Zuckerberg talked about leveraging AI to have business accounts respond to customers for purchase and support queries. Today, Meta announced AI-powered features for WhatsApp Business apps, such as helping with the creation of click-to-WhatsApp ads a
Google Play cracks down on AI apps after circulation of apps for making deepfake nudes
Google on Thursday is issuing new guidance for developers building AI apps distributed through Google Play, in hopes of cutting down on inappropriate and otherwise prohibited content. The company says apps offering AI features will have to prevent the generation of restricted content — which incl
A social app for creatives, Cara grew from 40k to 650k users in a week because artists are fed up with Meta's AI policies
Artists have finally had enough with Meta's predatory AI policies, but Meta's loss is Cara's gain. An artist-run, anti-AI social platform, Cara has grown from 40,000 to 650,000 users within the last week, catapulting it to the top of the App Store charts.
Instagram is a necessity for m
Google looks to AI to help save the coral reefs
Google has developed a new AI tool to help marine biologists better understand coral reef ecosystems and their health, which can aid in conversation efforts. The tool, SurfPerch, created with Google Research and DeepMind, was trained on thousands of hours of audio reef recordings that allow scienti
Study finds that AI models hold opposing views on controversial topics
Not all generative AI models are created equal, particularly when it comes to how they treat polarizing subject matter.
In a recent study, researchers at Carnegie Mellon, the University of Amsterdam and AI startup Hugging Face tested several open text-analyzing models, including Meta’s Lla