Apple buys secretive AI startup that allows non-verbal communication with chatbots - Q.ai is Apple’s biggest acquisition since the Cupertino company bought Beats in 2014

Apple Inc. plans to revamp Siri later this year by turning the digital assistant into the company’s first artificial intelligence chatbot, thrusting the iPhone maker into a generative AI race dominated by OpenAI and Google.

OpenAI leader Sam Altman and famed ex-Apple designer Jony Ive announced last May that the duo was collaborating on a family of AI hardware products.

Despite that “conscious decision,” OpenAI has an existing relationship with Apple. Apple announced a partnership with OpenAI in June 2024 at its developer conference that has ChatGPT integrated into Siri. ChatGPT is also integrated into Apple's Visual Intelligence, which lets iPhone users learn about the world around them, akin to Google Lens.

Apple picked Google's Gemini to power its next-generation Siri, sidelining OpenAI in the process. The decision came after Apple spent a year testing partners and struggling with its own AI models. While Google's Gemini 3 topped industry benchmarks,

A new report on Apple’s partnership with Google to have Gemini power the new Siri appears to confirm speculation

Before announcing Google as its partner for upcoming AI features, Apple was also considering OpenAI. But, it seems the ChatGPT maker had other plans to work on.

OpenAI is quietly building a social network and considering using biometric verification like World’s eyeball scanning orb or Apple’s Face ID to ensure its users are people, not bots.

ChatGPT’s new health feature, which promises to interpret data from wearables like the Apple Watch, left a columnist with more questions than answers after he provided it with a decade’s worth of personal health records and received a disturbing—and incorrect—assessment.