All-hands: Tim Cook said he's stepping down now to ensure the “best-ever transition,” citing strong financials, an “incredible” pipeline, and Ternus' readiness
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Sources: Apple cut dozens of sales roles to streamline sales to businesses, schools, and governments; Apple says the changes affect “a small number of roles”
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Apple's lead AI researcher for robotics, Jian Zhang, leaves for Meta's Robotics Studio; sources say three more researchers left Apple's Foundation Models team
including its lead for robotics research. X: Mark Gurman / @markgurman : NEW: Apple has lost four more AI researchers, including the head of research for robotics in its AI division. The latest set of...
Q&A with Sonos interim CEO Tom Conrad on the disastrous app redesign, the Ace headphones, subscriptions, the canceled video player, Google, and more
Proud of you my friend and g'luck on your next chapter <3 — www.theverge.com/speakers/664... Threads: Chris Welch / @chriswelch : And... fin. Couldn't have asked for a more fitting way to end this ...
Sources: Apple plans to relocate its secret robotics team from John Giannandrea's AI unit and place it under SVP John Ternus, who oversees hardware engineering
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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...
Memo: Meta hires the former CEO of luxury goods marketplace The RealReal as VP of retail, as it seeks to boost sales of Quest, Ray-Ban Meta, and AI wearables
- Company hires John Koryl as retail VP reporting to its CTO — Meta wants to improve retail experience for new AI wearables X: @markgurman X: Mark Gurman / @markgurman : NEW: Separately, Meta is hiri...
Peloton names Ford executive Peter Stern as CEO, set to start on January 1, to lead a turnaround, and projects Q2 subscriber numbers below analyst estimates
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Apple's first chief people officer, Carol Surface, who joined in early 2023, is leaving; retail chief Deirdre O'Brien is reassuming oversight of human resources
https://mastodon.social/... X: Mark Gurman / @markgurman : If it feels like there are a lot of senior exits right now, that's because there are: CFO moving to smaller role, plus App Store head, chief ...
Sources: Dan Riccio, Apple's Vision Pro chief and former SVP of hardware engineering, is leaving in October; the Vision Pro team will now report to John Ternus
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