iOS 18 is en route and is rumored to feature privacy-focused AI with processing done directly on the iPhone without connecting to cloud-based services. Per Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman in the Sunday edition of his PowerOn newsletter, the AI-related functions in iOS 18 “will work entirely on device.” In practice, these AI features would be able […]
While it’s sort of a generic rule of the universe that Apple sometimes makes acquisitions and staff hires to cultivate new technologies, the company has been quietly making a series of artificial intelligence-related purchases in a bid to bring on-device AI to its next-generation iPhones, According to the Financial Times, indications suggest Apple has been […]
Apple is rumored to be prepping a new version of its Siri assistant, complete with a generative AI and other new functionalities for its Worldwide Developer Conference this summer. Per Korean social media site Naver and tech news aggregator account “yeux1122” on the site, Apple has recently made progress with integrating generative AI into Siri […]
Apple has apparently begun creating its own AI-powered chatbot, but reportedly does not have solid plans to release the technology to the public in the near future. According to Bloomberg, the chatbot uses its own large language model (LLM) framework called “Ajax,” running on Google Cloud and built with Google JAX, a framework created to […]
Amidst yesterday’s Worldwide Developers Conference announcements, Apple finally released Safari 5.0, the newest version of its web browser. The new version, available here (or via Mac OS X’s Software Update feature), sports the following fixes and changes: – Safari Reader: Click on the new Reader icon to view articles on the web in a single, […]