Apple CEO John Ternus pressured Apple senior VP of Software Engineering Craig Federighi to “accelerate the company’s road map and move quickly beyond merely making necessary improvements to Siri,” reports Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman in today’s Power On newsletter.

Citing anonymous sources, Gurman writes that Ternus is “frustrated by what he sees as a reluctance to embrace AI with the same urgency as competitors,” and pushed Federighi for changes in a meeting behind closed doors. Federighi, Gurman points out, has been considered an AI skeptic with concerns “about the technology’s privacy, security, societal and employment implications.”

  • Taldan@lemmy.world
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    1 day ago

    repeatedly denied allocating money for buying GPUs, and told the engineers to ‘just use the old ones’.

    What’s the source for this story? Seems wild finance was able to make a top level strategic decision like that

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      7 hours ago

      Apple Explained published a fairly thorough video on the failure of Apple Intelligence, and it’s covered there.

      Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qRLvC0kd2jk

      Unfortunately he doesn’t provide sources, but usually shows articles, so you can easily find them. The original sources there were leaks iirc.

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      22 hours ago

      Well I want the source, but finance has usually ran the show. They are the ones with the checkbook after all.