At Google's 2025 announcement event, the company made several digs at apple, from "walled gardens" to the "tired" text bubble color debate.

Commentary: The Apple Watch and AirPods can lead the way in Apple's AI comeback — that is, if those Siri reports are true.

Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman has a juicy new report today detailing Apple’s future plans for AI and robotics, which he pitches as a “turnaround” for the company. A comeback of sorts, for a company that has badly missed the boat and disappointed fans with its AI ambitions so far.

Apple Inc. is plotting its artificial intelligence comeback with an ambitious slate of new devices, including robots, a lifelike version of Siri, a smart speaker with a display and home-security cameras.

" [An Apple robot] is very much linked to their success around generative AI," BofA Global Research analyst Wamsi Mohan explained. "If you're trying to do a hands-free experience, voice has to be the main modality in which you converse."

Taiwan's Foxconn , which rose to become a global tech manufacturing juggernaut by assembling millions of iPhones, can now say its main business is no longer Apple as it takes advantage of the AI-boom to diversify its income.

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The latest Apple AI rumor covers a Clippy-like AI assistant, robots, and security cameras for your smart home.

That leaves room for Web3 platforms to define a different model. Unlike traditional AI systems that remain under corporate control, decentralized AI agents are owned outright by users through private keys. They cannot be shut down, seized, or altered by a third party.

Artificial intelligence (AI) is now at the heart of growth in technology, with the global AI market expected to reach around $244 billion in 2025. The biggest tech names are racing to bring smarter, more adaptive AI into every device and service on the market.