Siri Gets Smarter: Apple Taps Multiple Chatbots for AI UpgradeApple's Siri is trying to make friends in the AI world. Apple is taking the unusual step of connecting Siri with multiple AI chatbots, including Google's Gemini, Anthropic's Claude and OpenAI's ChatGPT, Bloomberg reported Thursday, citing unnamed Apple employees.A representative from Apple didn't immediately respond to a request...

NEA’s Tiffany Luck says enterprises are still figuring out their AI ROI Tokenmaxxing was the hottest trend in Silicon Valley earlier this year, with CEOs encouraging employees to push AI usage as far as it would go. Then the bill came due. Uber reportedly blew through its annual AI budget in a few months, some companies cut Claude licenses for parts of...

Norway's crown princess undergoes successful lung transplant, palace saysGetty ImagesCrown Princess Mette-Marit was last seen in public on 17 May wearing a breathing tube connected to an oxygen deviceNorway's Crown Princess Mette-Marit has undergone a successful lung transplant in Oslo, the country's royal household has said.Mette-Marit, 52, was diagnosed with a form of pulmonary fibrosis in...

OpenAI COO says ads will be ‘an iterative process’ Last month, OpenAI said that it is going to introduce ads to users of the free and Go tiers in ChatGPT. The company rolled out ads to U.S.-based users earlier this month amid criticism from rivals like Anthropic, which published a string of Super Bowl ads. On the sidelines of the India AI summit, TechCrunch asked OpenAI COO Brad Lightcap about...

Liberia's biggest-ever drugs bust: Police seize cocaine worth $370mA huge quantity of cocaine has been seized during a raid on a suspected illegal storage facility near Liberia's capital, Monrovia, in what authorities say is the biggest drugs bust in the country's history.Videos and photos released by police showed dozens of sealed suitcases and boxes inside a lorry that investigators believed...