At least Apple is finally realizing they are lightyears behind on the AI front, so are taking steps to acquire and parter with companies leading the way.
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Apple Just Made Its Second-Biggest Acquisition Ever After Beats
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I mean China is being thrown under the bus almost every day on here. It's worth questioning buying a company from the world leader in spyware tech run by a far right government. Nothing to do with Jews
American govt isn’t openly funding terrorism in any other country. And the article is about Israeli company acquisition.
Apple has shown its hand time and again, standing for defense of civil rights, of LGBTQ rights, of privacy itself. And because of this I believe the men and women within the circled walls have no love for the pedophile-in-chief.
Yet let us not pretend virtue alone rules. Words may be noble… but when coin is weighed, honor so often bleeds. In the end, it is the bottom line that survives.
But who truly knows the truth?
Not sure if you're talking about Israel or US. In either case I fail to see the relevance.
I guess Japan pretending the rape of nanking didn’t happen is ok and sourcing screens from Japanese companies isn’t comparable because Japan isn’t in the Middle East?
The future just went from crowds of people publicly talking into their smartglasses to crowds of people publicly mouthing silently into their smartglasses.
Apple today confirmed to Reuters that it has acquired Q.ai, an Israeli startup that is working on artificial intelligence technology for audio.
Apple paid close to $2 billion for Q.ai, according to sources cited by the Financial Times. That would make this Apple's second-biggest acquisition ever, after it paid $3 billion for the popular headphone and audio brand Beats in 2014.
Q.ai has developed technology that can "analyze facial expressions" to understand "silent speech," according to the Financial Times.
"Patents filed by Q.Ai show its technology being used in headphones or glasses, using 'facial skin micro movements' to communicate without talking," the report said, adding that this could pave the way for "non-verbal discussions" with Siri.
Q.ai CEO Aviad Maizels previously founded another Israeli startup, PrimeSense, which was also acquired by Apple in 2013. Apple used PrimeSense's technology to develop Face ID, which debuted on the iPhone X in 2017.
Q.ai's founding team will join Apple, including Maizels, Yonatan Wexler, and Avi Barliya.
Apple's chipmaking chief Johny Srouji described Q.ai as "a remarkable company that is pioneering new and creative ways to use imaging and machine learning," in a statement shared with Reuters. "We're thrilled to acquire the company, with Aviad at the helm, and are even more excited for what's to come."
This acquisition comes as Apple's former design chief Jony Ive has been working with OpenAI on a new AI device, and as other companies like Meta have released AI-powered devices such as the Meta Ray-Ban glasses with an in-lens display.
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I’d guess the extremely disproportionate retaliation on Netanyahu’s part is playing a role here.
I’m looking forward to blocking anything Q.ai’s tech can do in upcoming Apple products.
Yeah and $20,000 Celebrite devices so Western powers can break into the phones of anyone they want. I imagine my feelings about Israel are similar to how a lot of people feel about the US right now even though it's too complex to blame on the citizenry. IMO Israel, lately, looks brutal even compared to the US. Israel and US is a classic case of "the student has become the master".
Take a history lesson on the Middle East. You will find out the Jews were here long before palestine was even a word.
We don’t fund most of the other countries’ atrocities and let them bitch-slap us around, that’s a unique privilege we save for israel bc we felt bad that they got wrecked in WW2 so we decided to gift them a country, limitless military security, and indiscriminate funding. So yeah, we get a little more upset about them being sh¡tty than the countries who do it all by themselves without our help.
People here aren’t educated enough for this one 😉 💥
Smart because of the us taxpayer indirectly funds them
There’s no arguing that these Israeli companies are very good at what they do. But the results may not be what one wants or expects.
www.jpost.com
iPhone flaw exploited by second Israeli spy firm | The Jerusalem Post
Two firms employed the same sophisticated hacking technique – known as a “zero-click” – shows that phones are more vulnerable to powerful digital spying tools than the industry will admit.
www.jpost.com
Not a single person has said Jews didn't co-exist with other people in the Middle East for millennia. Zionism as stated is a nationalist movement that came from Europe not from the Middle East.
Anyway, I guess this tech would be for the glasses. Apple needs to make big acquisitions is gaming and television as well. They should make some acquisitions to make iWorks and creator studio better too.
It’s certainly possible that I’m not informed enough; if that’s the case please let me know where else we’re funding such things so we can look into it and make up our minds; our leaders are far from perfect so I wouldn’t put it past them. But when it comes to israel, the US populace is aware, and we’ve made up our minds.
Finally Siri will be able to understand the extent to which it drives me nuts as I growl with frustration because it plays a different song by a different artist when I specifically request certain song and artist.Wonder if it can detect "rolling my eyes" ... that would be most useful
I’m just going to gloss over the main issue with this acquisition and say this: when will apple dish out the real money and acquire Anthropic???
Potentially. This seems like it could have a lot of implications for wearables with sensors and cameras such as the rumored glasses or the AI AirPods.