For better or worse, Tim Cook's legacy is likely to be determined by something we don't really know the answer to yet: the company's bet to build its AI strategy partly around other companies' models. Why it matters: In the short term, the move could save substantial sums compared with building and operating a frontier-model business of its own, but it's left Apple dependent on Google for some of its most important AI capabilities. Driving the news: As John Ternus officially takes over today as Apple CEO, much of the analysis of Cook's tenure has focused on his record. - On the positive side, he has more than quadrupled annual revenue and grown Apple's market capitalization by an even higher amount, to more than $4 trillion. - And he…
Data: Axios research; Chart: Sara Wise/Axios Chinese AI lab DeepSeek released a powerful new coding model Friday that charges pennies for vast amounts of code — the latest sign that some of the smartest software on Earth is rapidly becoming a commodity . Why it matters: Tech giants are pouring hundreds of billions of dollars into the computing infrastructure powering the AI revolution. Yet the intelligence that infrastructure produces is getting cheaper by the week. Zoom in: DeepSeek is the same Chinese startup that ignited a market meltdown last January by showing it could build a world-class AI model with far fewer resources than its U.S. rivals. - Its newest model, V4 Flash, performs close to the level of Anthropic's Claude Opus…
Apple hinted Thursday that heavy users of its revamped Siri may have to pay for access. Why it matters: It's the first time that Apple has confirmed it will charge for the new AI -powered voice assistant. What they're saying: In a conference call to discuss Apple's most recent quarterly earnings , CEO Tim Cook said Apple is still developing its plan to address the higher computing costs that will come with the improved voice assistant. - "We do believe there will be people that want to use it a lot, and so we will have some kind of upgrade possibilities on iCloud+," Cook said during a call to discuss Apple's most recent quarterly earnings . - Apple has also said that users will need a paid iCloud subscription to take advantage of a new…
‘AI can sound like a doctor but not think like one’
Using artificial intelligence for some tasks may actually be contributing to heavier workloads for some physicians, according to new research from Dartmouth. AI tools can sometimes worsen doctors’ workloads by introducing errors and adding unnecessary details into their written messages to patients, according to Dartmouth’s study , which was presented on Tuesday at the Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics in San Diego, California. The report also suggests that physicians may actually spend more time editing AI-generated responses than it would take to write them without using AI tools. (RELATED: Microsoft Axes Thousands Of Jobs As Reality Of AI Era Sets In) “We find that AI can sound like a doctor but…Open
‘AI can sound like a doctor but not think like one’
Using artificial intelligence for some tasks may actually be contributing to heavier workloads for some physicians, according to new research from Dartmouth. AI tools can sometimes worsen doctors’ workloads by introducing errors and adding unnecessary details into their written messages to patients, according to Dartmouth’s study , which was presented on Tuesday at the Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics in San Diego, California. The report also suggests that physicians may actually spend more time editing AI-generated responses than it would take to write them without using AI tools. (RELATED: Microsoft Axes Thousands Of Jobs As Reality Of AI Era Sets In) “We find that AI can sound like a doctor but…Open
Apple isn't burning mountains of cash to buy GPUs for the sake of training AI models and processing prompts. - Nor is it investing huge sums in frontier labs like OpenAI or Anthropic, as are rivals like Amazon and Microsoft. Why it matters: Apple may reap the rewards of everyone else's spend. Success from the sidelines. Apple's playbook: Keep selling high-end consumer hardware that will become even more essential as AI becomes more ubiquitous. - AI advancements could lead to shorter upgrade cycles, while Apple's reputation for enhanced privacy could become an enhanced selling point. - All the while, "taxing" the frontier labs via the App Store. It doesn't matter to Apple which app gets used most, so long as it's being used. Behind the…