Apple is having a hard time convincing top engineers that Siri can keep up with AI-focused rivals.
 Apple has recently lost three top engineers working on AI technology to Google-parent Alphabet, The Information reports.
 Apple’s Siri icon Hasan Chowdhury
 for BusinessInsider: Apple has lost three top engineers working on ChatGPT-like technology to Google, in a sign the iPhone-maker is struggling to supercharge its AI efforts and Siri as large language models go mainstream. Srinivasan Venkatachary, Steven Baker and Anand Shukl quit because they believed Google was a better place to work on the large language models underlying tools like ChatGPT, which went viral on its release in late November. They were personally poached by Google CEO Sundar Pichai after shunning…

An Apple embezzler who was originally estimated to have cost the Cupertino company $10M has now admitted to fraudulently obtaining a total of $17M over a period of seven years. Dhirendra Prasad worked as a buyer in Apple’s global supply-chain division, and engaged in a mix of activities in order to steal the money. 27th April 2023: Prasad has now been sentenced to three years, and ordered to repay both Apple and the IRS – see update at the end more… The post Apple embezzler admits defrauding company of $17M, gets three years [U] appeared first on 9to5Mac.