Apple is testing a ChatGPT-like AI chatbot

Apple is developing artificial intelligence tools to challenge OpenAI, Google and others. Apple has created a chatbot that some engineers are internally referring to as “Apple GPT.” 

Apple has built its own framework, codenamed “Ajax,” to create large language models, which are AI-based systems that power offerings like Open AI’s ChatGPT and Google’s Bard. Ajax runs on Google Cloud and was built with Google JAX, the search giant’s machine learning framework. Apple is leveraging Ajax to create large language models and serve as the foundation for the internal ChatGPT-style tool.

ChatGPT on iOS gets improved iPad support and Shortcuts integration

 OpenAI is improving ChatGPT on iPad today with a new update designed to take advantage of the entire iPad screen. The updated ChatGPT app for iOS and iPadOS also includes drag and drop, Siri support, and Shortcuts integration.

Tim Cook uses ChatGPT

Apple CEO Tim Cook said recently that he uses ChatGPT, the AI chatbot, and is excited about the tool’s “unique applications.”

Cook added that large language models — the AI tools that power chatbots like OpenAI’s ChatGPT and Google’s Bard — show “great promise” but also the potential for “things like bias, things like misinformation"

Apple event iPhone 14

 Apple announced that it will be holding a special event on Wednesday, September 7. The event will take place at the Steve Jobs Theater. new iPhone 14 expected

Apple supply chain in China hit by lockdowns as key partner suspends production in Shanghai, Kunshan

 Apple's supply chain is facing extended disruptions caused by China's strict Covid-19 control measures, after the US giant's second-largest Chinese assembly plant suspended production at key factories in Shanghai and nearby Kunshan.

Pegatron Corporation, a major electronics manufacturing service provider for Apple, has stopped making computers, communication devices and consumer electronics for branded vendors in Kunshan, a manufacturing base in the coastal Chinese province of Jiangsu, since the city entered a lockdown a week ago.

Apple's Exposure Notification System

Across the world, governments and health authorities are working together to find solutions to the COVID‑19 pandemic, to protect people and get society back up and running. Software developers are contributing by crafting technical tools to help combat the virus and save lives. In this spirit of collaboration, Google and Apple are announcing a joint effort to enable the use of Bluetooth technology to help governments and health agencies reduce the spread of the virus, with user privacy and security central to the design.

As part of this partnership Google and Apple are releasing draft documentation for an Exposure Notification system in service of privacy-preserving contact tracing:

source: https://www.apple.com/covid19/contacttracing

Apple 2020 Supplier Responsibility progress report

Authored by Sabih Khan, Apple's senior vice president of operations, the letter details changes that Apple has made to protect its supply chain partners, such as strict adherence to social distancing, limiting density, and health screenings.

PDF: https://www.apple.com/supplier-responsibility/pdf/Apple_SR_2020_Progress_Report.pdf

Source: https://techcrunch.com/2020/05/14/apple-operations-svp-details-supply-chain-safety-changes-due-to-covid-19/

More: https://www.macrumors.com/2020/05/14/apple-2020-supplier-responsibility-report/