Apple has acquired Laserlike, a small machine learning startup based in Silicon Valley. The Information reports that the buyout happened late last year, and the team has joined Apple’s new artificial intelligence group.
Google’s eerie human-sounding AI helper that can make an actual phone call and make a restaurant reservation for you is coming to iPhone.
Apple has acquired a batch of US patents from a failed home security camera startup, Lighthouse AI, including patents related to depth-sensing technologies.
The promotion highlights the growing importance of machine learning and artificial intelligence at the Cupertino firm.
Apple has acquired a privacy-minded startup Silk Labs that was founded by Mozilla’s former Chief Technology Officer Andreas Gal.
Apple has a new chief that will oversee Apple’s strategy for artificial intelligence and machine learning, who’s also supposed to fixate many shortcomings of Apple’s underpowered digital assistant.
The same neural machine translation technology that powers online translations now works offline, letting you use Google’s Translate app when traveling abroad without a local data plan.
Google Photos will get one-tap actions, work with your favorite apps and devices, change black-and-white shots into color and help you remove background colors from an image.
The new app replaces Google’s existing Play Newsstand and News & Weather apps and includes AI-powered recommenations and features like Full Coverage.
Apple has hired Google’s chief of search and artificial intelligence John Giannandrea, reports The New York Times. The outlet has obtained an internal email from Tim Cook, who tells employees “John shares our commitment to privacy and our thoughtful approach as we make computers even smarter and more personal.”
Automix AI in the new djay Pro 2 app for Mac uses machine learning for remarkably smooth transitions between songs. We asked our own Andrew O’Hara to put together a quick hands-on video walthrough showing how Automix AI works.
It’s unclear if this upcoming time-saving Photoshop CC feature will make it into Lightroom.