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Apple is working on artificial intelligence to enhance Siri

05/09/202405/08/2024 Sam Lambert

Though the iPhone maker has been tight lipped about its AI, everyone expects it As is typically the case when it comes to projects it hasn’t officially announced, Apple hasn’t said much about its progress with artificial intelligence, though few have any doubt that it is up to its eyeballs in AI research. Just because Apple isn’t talking, doesn’t mean AI isn’t happening Apple hasn’t simply absented itself from the artificial intelligence race that its competitors have been scrambling to keep up with. The iPhone maker nearly never talks about…

Threads app now has more daily users than X

05/03/202405/02/2024 Stephanie Beck

Zuckerberg’s microblogging application is now more popular than former Twitter Meta’s newest social media platform, the Threads app, has recently overtaken X (formerly known as Twitter) in terms of its daily active users in the United States. The achievement was initially noted in December 2023 It was the Apptopia data intelligence firm that first observed that the Threads app had more daily active users (DAUs) than the X social media platform. “Threads DAUs in the US passed X in December 2023 and it has not looked back,” said Apptopia vice…

Microsoft launches its tiniest artificial intelligence model to date

05/02/202405/01/2024 L. Green

Artificial intelligence model - Microsoft launch

Phi-3 is the smallest so far and learned from “bedtime stories” from other large language models Microsoft has released the latest version of its tiny artificial intelligence model, the Phi-3 Mini, which is the smallest it has launched to date. This is the first of three small models it intends to launch The Phi-3 Mini is only 3.8 billion parameters. Its training was based on data notably smaller than those for GPT-4 and other large language models (LLMs). The new Phi-3 Mini artificial intelligence model can be found on Hugging…

Apple bans 3 AI apps able to create deepfake images of people without clothes

05/01/202404/30/2024 John Montgallo

The iPhone maker has removed generative artificial intelligence with capabilities for undressing Apple has removed 3 AI apps in a move that may include more as a result of a trend among certain developers that have been promoting their products as able to create deepfake pictures that show people undressed. Developers have been using social media to promote those products Developers selling these AI apps have been promoting them on social media ads, particularly on Instagram. They make references to being able to “delete” clothing and other similar features. When…

Apple ordered to remove WhatsApp from the App Store in China

04/24/202404/23/2024 Stephanie Beck

The iPhone maker has removed the popular messaging application from the shop in the country Apple has announced that it has been required to remove the WhatsApp messaging application by Meta from the App Store in China in order to comply with regulations issued by Beijing. The Threads application was also required to be removed Both WhatsApp and Threads were taken down from the App Store when Apple received an order from Chinese authorities to do so. Officials from the country cited national security concerns without any additional details regarding…