Apple CEO John Ternus pressured Apple senior VP of Software Engineering Craig Federighi to “accelerate the company’s road map and move quickly beyond merely making necessary improvements to Siri,” reports Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman in today’s Power On newsletter.

Citing anonymous sources, Gurman writes that Ternus is “frustrated by what he sees as a reluctance to embrace AI with the same urgency as competitors,” and pushed Federighi for changes in a meeting behind closed doors. Federighi, Gurman points out, has been considered an AI skeptic with concerns “about the technology’s privacy, security, societal and employment implications.”

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[–] 10 points 1 day ago

Well, if the AI Siri is any indication of the quality of services they will provide with this idea, then I will jump back to Android. That new Siri is so painfully shit that I am surprised they didn’t announce the sacking of everyone involved. Total amateur hour. They went from bad to worse somehow, and someone in the chain greenlit it for deployment. Mind-boggling.

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