Apple says AI chief John Giannandrea is stepping down and will retire in spring 2026; ex-Microsoft CVP Amar Subramanya takes over, reporting to Craig Federighi
Apple AI chief John Giannandrea is stepping down from his position and retiring in spring 2026, Apple announced today.
Sources: Apple plans to move its health and fitness teams under Eddy Cue's Services, with Craig Federighi overseeing watchOS and John Ternus overseeing Watch
Apple Inc. is preparing to expand the roles of some top executives in response to the pending departure of longtime Chief Operating …
Sources: Apple's AI model team wanted to release several models as open source but Craig Federighi disagreed, largely concerned about public perception issues
Earlier this year, the Apple team working on the company's artificial intelligence models wanted to release several of them as open-source software.
Sources: Mike Rockwell and Craig Federighi started a project to evaluate external models to power Siri; after testing, Anthropic's tech seemed most promising
Apple Inc. is considering using artificial intelligence technology from Anthropic PBC or OpenAI to power a new version of Siri …
An interview with Apple SVP Craig Federighi on the journey to iPadOS' windowing system and menu bar, the iPad's essence as a “magical piece of glass”, and more
It's a cool, sunny morning at Apple Park as I'm walking my way along the iconic glass ring to meet with Apple's SVP …
An interview with Craig Federighi on iPadOS 26's multitasking UI, Stage Manager's interface limitations, and why the iPad's Mac-style multitasking took so long
Federighi talks to Ars about why the iPad's Mac-style multitasking took so long. — CUPERTINO, Calif.—When Apple Senior Vice President …
An interview with Craig Federighi and Greg Joswiak on Apple's struggles to ship AI features demoed in 2024 using Siri's “V1 architecture” and its work on a V2
and What's Coming Next Ronil Thakkar / KnowTechie : Siri snubbed at Apple's WWDC 2025 as AI takes center stage Ben Thompson / Stratechery : Apple's WWDC 2025 marked a strategic retreat from its overam...
Sources: Tim Cook lost faith in Apple AI head John Giannandrea to execute on product development and drafted in Vision Pro creator Mike Rockwell to oversee Siri
Mark Gurman / Bloomberg : X: @markgurman and @markgurman X: Mark Gurman / @markgurman : As I reported last week, Apple is not firing Giannandrea over its AI issues and never considered doing so. Gian...
Sources: Craig Federighi and other Apple executives voiced concerns that personalized Siri didn't work properly; some think it has to be rebuilt from scratch
Apple Inc.'s turmoil in its AI division reached new heights on Friday, with the company delaying promised updates to the Siri digital assistant for the foreseeable future.
Apple's John Giannandrea, Craig Federighi, and Greg Joswiak on the company's work on transformer-based AI models after GPT-3, building Apple Intelligence, more
Steven Levy / Wired : Bluesky: @stevenlevy . Forums: r/technews Bluesky: Steven Levy / @stevenlevy : In prepping for my Tim Cook interview I had some rare conversations w Apple sr execs and came up w...