This week on Tech Pulse, we narrate one article spanning artificial intelligence and consumer technology.
Apple finally delivers the AI-powered Siri it promised two years ago, and a reporter gets early hands-on access at Apple Park. The new assistant blends on-device and cloud-based models, can scan messages and emails to answer personal questions, and even uses the camera to size up a bookshelf. The piece weighs Apple's pitch that built-in convenience beats raw power against the privacy tradeoffs of letting an assistant see almost everything on your phone. Whether app developers actually let Siri in, and whether the privacy promises hold up under real use, will determine if this overhaul finally lives up to the hype.
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