EU regulators reject Apple’s request for Siri AI exemption under Digital Markets Act

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The AI price war pressures companies to optimize costs, potentially stalling profitability and innovation as they navigate budget constraints. The post Startups and tech giants wage AI price war as inference costs spiral out of control appeared first on Crypto Briefing.

You'd be forgiven for thinking this day would never come. Siri has spent a decade and half somewhere between "sort of useful at a few things" and "utterly disastrous, why did I even try, can it honestly not even set a timer." But the wildest thing just happened: Apple put out a new version of Siri, and it actually seems to be pretty good. On this episode of The Vergecast, David and Nilay talk about their early experiences with Siri AI, and what it means for users, and the rest of the AI industry, for the iPhone's built-in assistant to be good enough at most things. There's very little about Siri AI that feels bleeding edge or brand new, but … Read the full story at The Verge.

Uniswap's move democratizes access to tokenized assets, potentially reshaping retail investment by bridging traditional and decentralized finance. The post Uniswap enables trading of tokenized assets like Apple and Tesla appeared first on Crypto Briefing.

Apple’s executives have been taking questions, hosting seminars, seemingly working around the clock to stress one very important thing: Apple is not using a white label version of Google Gemini to make Siri AI happen. They just pooled resources to get there.  The new Siri AI is faster, more accurate, offers powerful contextual capabilities and shows how Apple has leap-frogged into a good peer position in an AI race critics felt it had already lost. Its market scale — even without the EU — is huge. For most consumers, Apple Intelligence and Siri will continue to be their primary/first engagement with artificial intelligence on a device. Getting there took a lot of work, and Apple needed Google to get it done. Though there is still some confusion about what that means, Apple’s software chief tried to explain it this week. “We use none of the models that Google deploys to their customers, nor do we use the infrastructure and means by which they employ models to their customers,” Craig Fed

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Apple's restrained AI approach may redefine user expectations, emphasizing privacy and utility over engagement, impacting AI industry norms. The post Apple’s Craig Federighi details new Siri AI’s restrained approach to engagement appeared first on Crypto Briefing.

‘Listen, that's not what I'm here for, right?' | Image: Apple Our early testing has already shown that Siri AI knows when to shut up, and that's very much by design. In an interview with Mostly Human, Apple's Craig Federighi said new Siri won't act all sycophantic like chatbots made by OpenAI, Google, and others. "As you may know, if you use many of the existing chatbots, they're really focused on engagement to a large degree," said Federighi who is responsible for software at Apple. "And sycophancy, right? They kind of want to pull you in. They might encourage you to reveal things about yourself, and then use that as a basis to establish a connection." Apple purposely took a different approach with … Read the full story at The Verge.