• Apple push into AI could spark smartphone upgrade ‘supercycle’

    Apple push into AI could spark smartphone upgrade ‘supercycle’
    Only most powerful iPhones will meet processing requirements to run new Siri and Apple Intelligence featuresApple’s big push into AI – which the company insists stands for “Apple Intelligence” – could spark an upgrade “supercycle”, with the intense processing requirements for the souped-up Siri limiting it to only the most powerful iPhones currently on the market.The company risks angering users who will update to iOS 18 this autumn to discover that even
  • ‘We anchored ourselves in wild adventure!’ Tilda Swinton on her trippy film about learning, AI and neuroscience

    ‘We anchored ourselves in wild adventure!’ Tilda Swinton on her trippy film about learning, AI and neuroscience
    What can a pipe-smoking caterpillar, a few algorithms and a researcher from the year 2042 tell us about the future of learning? The actor turned director explains all the ideas that fed into her thought-provoking new documentary‘This is a film about learning, full of questions, with not many answers,” announces Tilda Swinton at the start of her new documentary, The Hexagonal Hive and a Mouse in a Maze. “It has been dreamt up by the Derek Jarman Lab between 2016 and 2042, in con
  • Apple brings ChatGPT to Siri as it debuts ‘Apple Intelligence’ at WWDC 2024

    Apple brings ChatGPT to Siri as it debuts ‘Apple Intelligence’ at WWDC 2024
    New features and deal with OpenAI presented at conference marks change in focus for tech giant, which is under pressure to catch up with rival firms’ AI pushTim Cook, the Apple CEO, announced a series of generative artificial intelligence products and services on Monday during his keynote speech at the company’s annual developer conference, WWDC, including a deal with ChatGPT-maker OpenAI.The new tools mark a major shift toward AI for Apple, which has seen slowing global sales over t