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Privacy will be a major theme when Apple unveils a new version of Siri at the Worldwide Developers Conference in June, according to Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman. The Siri relaunch is widely seen as Apple’s big chance to reestablish its relevance in artificial intelligence. As part of that effort, company executives will argue that they’re taking a more privacy-friendly approach than most other AI companies, Gurman said. Apple will reportedly launch the first standalone Siri app, powered by Google Gemini and offering users a chatbot experience reminiscent of ChatGPT.  But compared to those other chatbots, the app is supposed to have…

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Sony unveiled its Xperia 1 VIII flagship with a new design, but the old core specs and idea. There’s a new 1/1.56-inch telephoto camera – a four times larger sensor with four times the resolution compared to what’s in the Mark VII. The new 48MP tele is locked at 2.9x (70mm). The other two cameras are the same – 24mm f/1.9 and 16mm f/2.0. Add a Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5, just 12GB of RAM, and a 5,000mAh battery. The Xperia 1 VIII is on sale from €1,500/£1,400 for the base 12/512GB config. Xiaomi confirmed that we’re getting a 17…

Enterprise leaders have spent two years and hundreds of billions of dollars on AI. The results have been uneven. According to McKinsey’s 2024 global survey, fewer than one in three companies report that their AI investments have generated meaningful, sustained business value. The demos tend to impress, and production tends to disappoint. The diagnosis offered most often is that the model isn’t good enough, the data infrastructure isn’t mature, or employees haven’t been trained. That diagnosis is largely wrong, or at least incomplete. The real problem is context, specifically the absence of a durable, dynamic enterprise context layer sitting between…

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Commencement season has come around again — and this year, a couple speakers have discovered that it’s tough to get graduating students excited about a future shaped by artificial intelligence. Last week, Gloria Caulfield, an executive at real estate firm Tavistock Development Company, gave a speech at the University of Central Florida acknowledging that we’re living in a time of “profound change,” which can be both “exciting” and “daunting.” “The rise of artificial intelligence is the next industrial revolution,” Caulfield declared — prompting the students in the audience to begin booing, getting louder and louder until Caulfield chuckled, turned to the…

Passkeys are pretty great. The tech is solid, based on well-established, secure cryptographic principles, and the ease of use is through the roof compared to remembering traditional passwords. In case you are not in the know, the passkey paradigm has you generating a secure private key that you keep locally on your device and a corresponding public key that you give out to websites/services/apps you want to log into. Once you actually want to log in, all you need to do is authenticate on your device securely through something like a biometric lock (fingerprint, Face ID) to “prove” that you…

The polar bear video has millions of views. Set to a haunting piano score that’s become ubiquitous on TikTok, it shows a lone bear swimming between increasingly distant ice floes. The comments section overflows with teenage grief, rage, and helplessness.Beside my laptop screen lies the latest Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report. Same subject, different universe. The measured language of climate science stands in stark contrast to the raw emotions evoked by that TikTok. Both contain some truth, but also fundamentally different frequencies of human understanding.Gen Z, the first generation to spend their earliest years in the smartphone era,…

Apple's upcoming Siri app for the iPhone will be different from rivals like ChatGPT in all the right ways. Source link

Welcome back to TechCrunch Mobility — your central hub for news and insights on the future of transportation. To get this in your inbox, sign up here for free — just click TechCrunch Mobility! There is a bit of a theme emerging in transportation — and really every industry: AI is creating jobs for some at the loss of others.  General Motors, for instance, laid off more than 10% of its IT department, or about 600 salaried employees — in a deliberate skills swap. This won’t translate into a one-to-one exchange, which means there will likely be a net-negative job…