Friday’s AI Report

• 1. 🔁 Apple Replaces Siri Leader
• 2. 💼 In partnership with Innovating with AI
• 3. 🌍 Europe Finally Gets (Restricted) Meta AI
• 4. 🧭 Anthropic’s Claude Gets AI Search
• 5. 💥In partnership with Upscaile
• 6. ⚙️ Trending AI Tools
• 7. 🏗️ Practical AI Applications
• 8. 📑 Recommended Resources

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Apple Replaces Siri Leader

🚨 Our Report 

Just a week after Apple announced further delays to the highly anticipated revamped AI-powered Siri (now expected in 2026) because development was taking “longer than expected” (which has subsequently triggered a lawsuit for false advertising as Apple device owners haven’t received the AI features they were promised), CEO Tim Cook is replacing the head of Siri—John Giannandrea—after losing confidence in his ability to lead AI development.

🔓 Key Points

• The head of Vision Pro development—Mike Rockwell—will replace Giannandrea as the leader of AI and Siri, with Rockwell's deputy, Paule Meade, taking over as head of the Vision Pro Group.

• While the Vision Pro VR headset wasn’t the hit Apple expected, there’s confidence within the company that Rockwell knows how to use his technical experience to get products commercialized.

• Although Giannandrea will remain in the company and reportedly continue his AI research and testing initiatives, many are questioning if Cook is keeping him, just to prevent a loss of confidence in the company.

🔐 Relevance 

The multiple Siri and Apple intelligence issues, delays, and setbacks have raised concerns that—since Cook took over from Steve Jobs as CEO, in 2001—product innovation has significantly suffered, with the pioneering tech company struggling to keep up with its competitors, although some think that Cook has managed to hold the company together, after many expected it to fall to pieces after Jobs left, and has “maintained its emotional core, engaged its loyalists and achieved significant success.”

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🚨 Our Report

After a year of regulatory battles with European privacy authorities, Meta is finally bringing a knocked-back version of its Meta AI chatbot to 41 European countries and 21 regions outside of Europe (including the UK) in 6 European languages (English, French, Spanish, Portuguese, German, and Italian), integrating it into WhatsApp, Instagram, Messenger, and Facebook.

🔓 Key Points

• Meta AI has been live in the US since 2023 and is capable of answering questions, generating images, and creating stylized selfies across all of Meta’s social platforms, but European users will not get all these features.

• Meta AI in Europe will be restricted to just text-based chat features—helping users “brainstorm ideas, plan a trip, or answer specific questions”—but it will not be able to generate/edit images or answer questions about photos.

• Although Meta AI will answer users’ questions, it will just use web-based information to deliver its responses, without accessing first-party data from EU users (a key bone of contention for EU regulators).

🔐 Relevance

After Meta launched Meta AI in the US it expected to bring it to Europe the same year but was forced to pause the launch after facing pushback from EU regulators who were concerned over how Meta was processing its users' data for training—believing an onerous ‘opt-out’ process didn’t comply with GDPR laws—and demanded Meta rethink its approach, hence why the European version doesn’t leverage first-party user data in its responses.

• Anthropic’s AI chatbot, Claude, can now search the web, bringing it in-line with rivals who’ve already launched AI-powered web search features, including OpenAI’s ChatGPT, Google’s Gemini, and Mistral’s Le Chat.

• Web search is currently just available on the latest model—Claude 3.7 Sonnet—as a “feature preview” for paying US users but Anthropic plans to expand access to other countries in the “next couple of weeks.”

• The feature pulls data from the internet and adds citations so users can fact-check sources, however, a recent study found that AI-powered chatbots, with search features, incorrectly answer over 60% of questions.

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