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When Urvashi Baruah applied to MBA programs in 2015, her dream of becoming a venture capitalist was at the core. She was rejected by every school and told that her chances in the venture industry were unrealistic, but she didn't give up. Eight years later, Baruah, 33, has been promoted to partner at Redpoint. He joined the firm as an associate four years ago and has served as a principal since late 2021. The Silicon Valley-based firm is currently investing from its ninth fund, which is $650 million. Baruah is now one of three partners at the firm that focuses…
Apple's new generative AI service, Apple Intelligence, won't just be a consumer-facing feature, but developers will also be able to take advantage of the latest technology. Apple announced during its WWDC 2024 keynote on Monday that developers will be able to integrate Apple Intelligence-powered experiences into their own apps. Apple's SDK (Software Development Kit) has been updated with a range of new APIs and frameworks, allowing app developers to integrate Image Playground (genAI image creation) with just a few lines of code. Apple showed off how apps like Craft can use this feature to make users' documents more visual by…
Apple kicked off its week-long Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC 2024) event today with its traditional keynote at 1pm ET/10am PT. The presentation focused on the company's software products and the developers behind them, including the latest versions of iOS, iPadOS, macOS, tvOS, visionOS, and watchOS. But the biggest news was the announcement of Apple Intelligence, the company's big entry into the competitive AI market. You can watch the archive on Apple's event page , or you can watch the YouTube archive here and in the embed below. If you're curious to see what predictions were coming up ahead of the…
It's WWDC 2024 keynote time! Every year, Apple kicks off its Worldwide Developers Conference with a multi-hour event of announcements, including the long-awaited Apple Intelligence and a refresh of its smart AI assistant, Siri. We expected a lot of it to be about the company's artificial intelligence ambitions (and here), and it didn't disappoint. We also got some news about Vision Pro, as well as a bunch of feature updates. Here's how to watch the WWDC 2024 archives: Developers can expect the usual hardware and software updates, as well as other items we initially expected to see announced. Brian Heater…
Apple is bringing ChatGPT, an AI-powered chatbot experience that leverages OpenAI's GPT-4 and other generative AI models, to Siri and other Apple apps. Apple announced the news at its annual WorldWide Developer Conference (WWDC) in Cupertino this year. Apple says Siri can tap ChatGPT to ask for “expertise” that could come in handy: For example, if you need menu ideas to cook a friend a meal using ingredients from your garden, you can ask Siri, and if you give permission, the prompt will automatically be sent to ChatGPT. When asking ChatGPT a question via Siri, you can include photos and…
An Apple Intelligence-powered feature coming in iOS 18 will allow iPhone users to create AI-like images of people they're messaging with, sort of like an AI-upgraded Bitmoji. According to Apple, the new product will help “make everyday conversations more enjoyable.” The company announced the new technology at WWDC 2024. Apple Intelligence understands who you're talking to in a Messaging conversation, so if you want to personalize your chats with custom AI images, you can create them on the fly. Image credit: Apple For example, Apple showed off the creation of an AI Bitmoji that celebrated a friend's birthday with images…
Apple's WWDC 2024 in Cupertino saw the company get a refresh of Siri, part of a comprehensive generative AI push the company is calling Apple Intelligence this year. Siri is now more natural, more relevant and more personal, with a new look and refreshed icon. The assistant now pops up with glowing lights around the edge of your device's screen. Thanks to Apple Intelligence, Siri can handle conversational stumbling blocks, better understand context, and now you can type to Siri to answer questions about using your iPhone, iPad, or Mac. Soon, Siri will have even better screen recognition capabilities, so…
At WWDC 2024 on Monday, Apple unveiled its long-awaited ecosystem-wide generative AI initiative, Apple Intelligence. As previous rumors had suggested, the new feature is called Apple Intelligence (AI, get it?). The company promised that the feature will deliver a highly personalized experience with safety at its core. “Most importantly, it needs to understand you and be rooted in your personal context: your daily life, your relationships and your communications,” CEO Tim Cook noted. “And of course, it needs to be built from the ground up with privacy in mind. All of this goes beyond artificial intelligence. It's personal intelligence, and…
You can already use your iCloud account to store and sync passwords across devices, but figuring out how to do it wasn't easy: Passwords were available through the Settings app on your Mac or iPhone. At WWDC 2024 on Monday, Apple announced its Passwords app, which will be available in the next major releases of iOS, macOS and visionOS, namely iOS 18, macOS Sequoia and visionOS 2. In addition to everything you currently have in the Passwords menu, a new column has been added on the left to make it easier to navigate your password collection: for example, you can…
At WWDC 2024 on Monday, Apple announced that iPadOS 18 will include a new “Smart Scripts” feature that will clean up your handwriting when you write in notes with Apple Pencil. According to Apple, Smart Script makes your handwritten notes smoother and straighter. The feature uses on-device machine learning to recreate your handwriting from your notes, improving the look of your writing as you write. Your own handwriting will be smoother and easier to read. This feature helps you maintain the flow of your writing by correcting mistakes immediately. When you paste text into a note, it appears in your…