Apple and OpenAI to announce updates, as AI arms race intensifies

As OpenAI preps for a major news conference Monday, Apple is reportedly planning its own announcement on a major boost to Siri, an early voice assistant which has lagged behind other AI chatbots for years. OpenAI, the ChatGPT maker and generative AI leader whose data collection policies have faced scrutiny for their use of copyrighted material, will unveil new features in a Monday event, per founder Sam Altman. On the other side of the San Francisco Bay, Apple plans to completely overhaul the underlying technology beneath Siri, moving to a ChatGPT-like generative language model which can better engage in conversation rather than simple prompting, the New York Times reports. Apple’s launch of new chips this week made a splash in the AI world, signaling to investors that it’s becoming serious in the development of chips amidst an "AI arms race," per the Wall Street Journal.