This week in artificial intelligence (AI) news saw Apple facing an AI reckoning, as Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang said computing demand is set to jump 100-fold. Meanwhile, Goldman Sachs looks ahead to a year of scaling AI; Hollywood’s upset at AI and IP issues; and Citi sees AI agent-to-agent payment systems coming.
Apple Demotes Executive as Siri Lags in AI Upgrades
Apple took the rare move of removing its top executive in charge of Siri upgrades as the AI assistant struggled to keep up with rivals like Amazon’s Alexa, Google’s Gemini for Android and Samsung’s Galaxy AI. Apple’s obsession with perfection, a top management that lacked vision and the missing brilliance of Steve Jobs have now come home to roost.
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