Senior AI exec leaves Apple, leaving Siri’s future in question

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00:00Senior AI executive leaves Apple, leaving Siri's future in question.

00:05Apple's AI team loses a key leader.

00:08Robbie Walker, formerly handling Siri, now departs,

00:11leaving Apple without one of its top AI executives.

00:14The timing wasn't great.

00:16Apple had just announced the delay of its new and improved Siri.

00:20Rumor suggests Walker, now leading a secret project, Answers, was involved in the holdup.

00:26Walker's departure is scheduled for October, adding to a list of AI leaders leaving Apple.

00:31Many of these executives have been recruited by Meta,

00:34which is aggressively attracting talent with lucrative offers.

00:38Roaming Pang was offered $200 million to move and brought engineers.

00:42Frank Chu, ex-Apple engineering director, joined Meta in September.

00:46It resembles a talent draft.

00:48Meanwhile, Daily Mail reconsiders its Apple News stance.

00:51After years of avoiding Apple News over traffic concerns,

00:55the tabloid now seeks access.

00:57Its owner filed a complaint over discriminatory practices.

01:00Apple claimed the mail's excess content could overwhelm the platform.

01:04Apple's latest challenges revolve more around AI politics than product allure.