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: Tim Cook approved doubling Apple's AI chips budget in 2023 after John Giannandrea sought more GPUs, but CFO Luca Maestri cut the increase to under half
Even before President Trump's tariffs threatened to upend Apple's manufacturing business in China, the company's struggle …
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...
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...
Sources: Apple made generative AI a tent-pole project after Craig Federighi and John Giannandrea spent weeks testing ChatGPT and found Siri to be antiquated
here's the key upgrades Adam Davidson / Pocket-lint : Siri is outdated, but a better version might be coming The Economic Times : iOS 18: Your iPhone may soon have ChatGPT Griffin Eckstein / Salon : A...
Sources: Apple made generative AI a tent-pole project after Craig Federighi and John Giannandrea spent weeks testing ChatGPT and found Siri to be antiquated
Apple plans to announce that it will bring generative A.I. to iPhones after the company's most significant reorganization in a decade.
US v. Google: in 2018 and 2019, DuckDuckGo discussed becoming Safari's default search engine for private mode, but Apple's John Giannandrea rejected the idea
- DuckDuckGo spoke with Apple about 20 times on possible change — Apple exec testified he viewed it as ‘probably a bad idea’
Apple hires ex-Google AI scientist Samy Bengio, who left last month after colleagues' firings; sources say Bengio will lead a new AI unit under John Giannandrea
Apple Inc (AAPL.O) said on Monday it has hired former distinguished Google (GOOGL.O) scientist Samy Bengio …
Sources: as Bob Mansfield retires, Apple puts AI chief John Giannandrea in charge of self-driving car project Titan; Doug Field runs the project day to day
Mark Gurman / Bloomberg :
John Giannandrea and Bob Borchers talk about why Apple is best positioned to “lead the industry” in building machine intelligence-driven features and products
that's a failure. And so Siri, Alexa, Google Assistant are failures. But Face ID, plam rejection are successes. https://arstechnica.com/... Casilli / @antoniocasilli : This long interview with two App...