Apple CEO: We Won’t Build Products Just for the Sake of AI Apple CEO John Ternus recently defended the company’s current strategy in the field of artificial intelligence during an interview. Over the past few years, many have viewed Apple as lagging behind in the AI race—particularly after the company delayed the release of a more advanced version of Siri, which only officially launched this summer. Ternus, a longtime Apple executive who officially took over as CEO in early September, acknowledged that “everyone has their own opinion,” but insisted, “I’m very satisfied with where we are right now.” He added that Apple will certainly incorporate AI into its new products, but emphasized, “We don’t want to launch AI just for the sake of having AI. If we do it well, users won’t even notice whether a feature was implemented using AI or traditional software. The key is whether we create products that users truly love.” (Source: Global Market Report) OpenAI, Google, Microsoft, and Anthropic Jointly Launch an Exit Standard for AI Data Scraping On November 1, OpenAI, Google, Microsoft, and Anthropic announced they would adopt a new standard allowing content publishers to opt out of having their website content scraped by AI systems. With this control mechanism, publishers can uniformly communicate their preferences regarding the use of their content for training AI models to multiple AI companies at once, rather than setting separate rules for each firm. The standard was proposed by Kevin Kelley, Chief Technology Officer at Anthropic, to the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF), and will be integrated into websites’ robots.txt files. For years, robots.txt files have been used to specify which website content web crawlers are permitted to scrape and which is prohibited, applicable to scenarios such as search indexing, web archiving, and AI model training. Currently, websites must individually declare their preferences for AI training-related content usage to each AI company separately. Against this backdrop, various AI crawlers continue scraping website content and feeding web materials into AI model training, leaving content publishers overwhelmed. (Source: Sina Finance) Apple Plans to Gradually Phase Out High-End Non-Touchscreen MacBook Pros by 2027 Apple has just introduced touchscreens to the MacBook Pro,
