They make traditional browsers feel quaint, as if they belong in a museum. Once you shift off Safari—or any legacy browser—you’ll be as eager to return as you are to reinstall AOL. — Tommo_UK
Read More 'Agentic browsers' have landed — but not for Apple
Apple seems to be focused on boosting not only the work it has been doing on the Vision Pro headset but also in escalating its AI ambitions further by advancing its Apple Intelligence initiatives.
2 weeks ago"Perplexity is Apple’s best option because it’s both a strategic fit and allows Apple control."
From "Apple needs to supercharge their AI efforts, says Needham's Laura Martin" posted Tuesday by CNBC.
Read More Laura Martin: Apple is falling further behind (video)
From Mark Gurman's "Apple Weighs Using Anthropic or OpenAI to Power Siri in Major Reversal" posted Monday by Bloomberg at 2:45 Eastern.
"If one believes even half of what Google, OpenAI, Anthropic, Meta and so on say about where the use of AI agents is going, then this could put the iPhone business at risk of becoming much less profitable."
Read More Richard Windsor: Acquisition is the most likely outcome of Apple's AI dilemma
A fresh look — using Clay Christensen's framework of sustaining versus disruptive innovation — at the impact of AI on Apple, Google, Meta, Microsoft and Amazon.
Read More Ben Thompson: AI, for Apple, is a sustaining innovation
3 weeks agoIf Apple really is circling names like Perplexity, Cohere, Mistral, and Databricks -- that’s not just a feature acquisition spree. That’s a declaration. A reframing.
"Not likely! But Meta-Scale is so unlikely that I feel we aren’t living in a world of likelies." — Perplexity chief business officer Dmitry Shevelenko
Read More Will Apple buy Perplexity? — with Bloomberg update
Newly released to developers, Apple Intelligence's transcription tools are fast, accurate, and typically double the speed of OpenAI's longstanding equivalent.
Read More Apple's AI tortoise wins a transcription race with OpenAI's hare
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