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Veteran PM Kim Vorrath reportedly joins Apple’s new AI division to whip “AI and Siri into shape” — amid claims Apple Intelligence is 2 years behind OpenAI’s ChatGPT and Microsoft's Copilot

Can Apple catch up in AI? A recent leak details how the firm is moving veteran staff around to try and help Siri catch up to ChatGPT and Microsoft Copilot.

Apple Intelligence running on an iPhone

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OpenAI's for-profit evolution hits a major roadblock — as the ChatGPT maker struggles to establish Microsoft's equity in its reportedly $30 billion charitable arm

OpenAI is reportedly deliberating transforming into a for-profit entity. However, the process has seemingly been stunted as the ChatGPT maker struggles to determine Microsoft's equity in the public benefit corporation, which could be valued at $30 billion.

Satya Nadella with Sam Altman at a conference

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Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei claims AI could surpass "almost all humans at almost everything," even robotics, within 3 years — dismisses AGI as a "marketing term"

Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei claims that generative AI could surpass human cognitive capabilities "in almost everything," even robotics, within 2-3 years.

Dario Amodei, co-founder and chief executive officer of Anthropic

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Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff claims Microsoft won't use OpenAI in the future — Microsoft already admitted GPT-4 is too expensive and isn't fast enough to meet consumer needs

Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff claims Microsoft won't use OpenAI in the future, following the announcement of the $500 billion Stargate project to build AI infrastructure for the ChatGPT maker's cloud computing needs.

Marc Benioff, chief executive officer of Salesforce Inc., speaks during a keynote at the 2024 Dreamforce conference in San Francisco, California, US, on Tuesday, Sept. 17, 2024.

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Samsung Galaxy S25 features leak ahead of Unpacked 2025 with Agentic AI taking center stage

Veteran tipster Evan Blass recently revealed some information about the upcoming lineup of Samsung phones, including a new Night mode for videos, Audio Eraser, and revamped Google Gemini.

Samsung advertising AI Agents at Galaxy Unpacked 2025

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Microsoft loses OpenAI exclusive cloud provider status to $500 billion Stargate project — as the ChatGPT maker races to hoist the AGI flag first

OpenAI's $500 billion investment in computing infrastructure changes its relationship with Microsoft. The tech giant will no longer be the ChatGPT maker's exclusive cloud partner for its sophisticated AI advances.

Satya Nadella and Sam Altman at OpenAI Dev Day

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OpenAI unveils $500 billion Stargate project to emancipate its overreliance on Microsoft's infrastructure — as Elon Musk questions investor liquidity

OpenAI, SoftBank, Oracle, and President Trump unveil a $500 billion dubbed Stargate project to build massive data centers for AI advances in the United States.

The OpenAI logo appears on the screen of a smartphone.

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"We made a mistake in not being more transparent": OpenAI secretly accessed benchmark data, raising questions about the AI model's supposedly "high scores" — after Sam Altman touted it as "very good"

A new report suggests OpenAI secretly funded and accessed the FrontierMath benchmarking data, raising concerns about whether the company used the data to train o3.

OpenAI and ChatGPT

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Microsoft flags macOS bug — remotely bypassing Apple's sophisticated System Integrity Protection (SIP) security solution and allowing unauthorized third-party rootkit installs

Microsoft uncovered a vulnerability allowing attackers to circumvent macOS's System Integrity Protection (SIP), granting them access to the kernel by loading third-party code.

Apple Store in Bangkok, Thailand

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"It's very good": Sam Altman says OpenAI will launch o3 mini reasoning model in a couple of weeks — with API and ChatGPT simultaneously

Sam Altman says OpenAI will launch o3 mini in a couple of weeks, featuring advanced reasoning in science, code, and math.

ChatGPT logo is seen displayed on a smartphone screen next to a laptop keyboard.

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Sam Altman dismisses AGI deployment rumors as "Twitter hype," while promising "very cool stuff" — "but please chill and cut your expectations 100x!"

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman addresses reports citing AGI deployment slated for next month by branding them as "Twitter hype." However, the ChatGPT maker will ship "very cool stuff" but expectations should be lowered by 100x.

The X account of OpenAI CEO Sam Altman is displayed on a mobile phone with a ChatGPT logo.

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Microsoft claps back at Salesforce — claims "100,000 organizations" had used Copilot Studio to create AI agents by October 2024

Microsoft has clapped back at Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff's comments downplaying its AI efforts. The company indicated over 100,000 organizations had used Copilot Studio to create agents by October 2024.

Microsoft CVP Charles Lamanna (left) and Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff (right)

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Microsoft blocks critical Secure Boot loophole after over 7 months — fortifying Windows 11 against sophisticated firmware attacks camouflaged as verified UEFI apps

Microsoft finally patched the security threat (CVE-2024-7344), allowing bad actors to gain unauthorized access to Windows 11 by bypassing Secure Boot for over 7 months.

Binary code displayed on a laptop screen and Guy Fawkes mask are seen in this illustration photo.

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Microsoft unveils MatterGen — an AI for developing new materials with an approximate 80% success rate, surpassing traditional screening methods

Microsoft Researchers recently unveiled MatterGen — a sophisticated AI system capable of developing high-quality materials.

MatterGen researchers at Microsoft experiment with compound TaCr2O6.

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Meta allegedly used 'crude tactics' to close in on OpenAI’s 2-year lead building AI uncontested — Sam Altman admitted creating ChatGPT without copyrighted data is impossible

Meta reportedly used copyrighted content to train its AI models and seemingly tried to cover its tracks to avoid copyright infringement-related issues, including removing copyright headers and document identifiers.

Text of LlaMA by Meta on a phone's display resting on a laptop's keyboard.

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Revamped Copilot for Business: Microsoft's answer to gimmicky AI tool allegations?

Microsoft recently unveiled Copilot Chat — "a new offering that adds pay-as-you-go agents to our existing free chat experience for Microsoft 365 commercial customers."

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella in front of the Microsoft Copilot AI logo.

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OpenAI gets a step closer to being "the everything app" — ChatGPT mimics Siri with ability to schedule recurring tasks and set reminders

OpenAI recently announced the launch of a new ChatGPT feature dubbed tasks in beta. The AI chatbot will automate several tasks, making work easier.

In this photo illustration OpenAI icon is displayed on a mobile phone screen in Ankara, Turkiye on August 13, 2024.

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