Apple to shut down 121-person San Diego AI team in reorganisation
Apple told employees that they have until the end of February to decide if they will relocate, according to the people. If they don’t, the workers will be terminated on April 26.
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Apple told employees that they have until the end of February to decide if they will relocate, according to the people. If they don’t, the workers will be terminated on April 26.
Apple is in touch with some top news publishers to use their articles to help train its generative AI systems, the media reported.
Cook said in the interview that Apple hires people from "all walks of life". This includes those with and without college degrees. He also listed some other traits that help one find success at the iPhone company.
"Creating unlawful barriers that make it harder for someone to seek a job because of their citizenship status will not be tolerated," said Assistant Attorney General Kristen Clarke of the Department's Civil Rights Division.
Apple accused the startup and the employees in a lawsuit of luring away its engineers and stealing proprietary information used to develop its homegrown chip designs.
Largest iPhone maker Foxconn ramped up hiring in China as Apple launches its next-generation of iPhones amid geopolitical tensions between Washington and Beijing and the rise of Huawei despite US sanctions, a media report said on Tuesday.
Google and Meta (formerly Facebook) tend to pay their software engineers more than their Big Tech counterparts, a new study has shown.
According to a Financial Times report, over the last few months, the iPhone maker has posted dozens of AI jobs in the US, France, and China, looking to fill roles that could help build generative AI tools
Apple has reportedly created its own GPT language model-based chatbot called "AppleGPT" for internal use. It has provided aid to its staff in creating prototypes of upcoming features and providing summarised texts and answers during this time. However, there is no definitive plan for this chatbot to be released to the public, and approval is required for access to it.
The May figure, at 204 per million job postings, was also more than double the 2021 level and underscored the buzz around AI, sparked by the runaway success of OpenAI's ChatGPT.
According to a report by Pocket-lint, Apple has opened about 176 positions in the machine learning and AI departments. The Cupertino-based tech giant has allocated about 68 positions to work on Siri, 52 positions will focus on introducing AI into iOS and 46 positions will be dedicated to macOS.