A report shows Apple analyzes everyone's photos with AI before you can opt out, raising questions about its privacy claims.

We should demand the same transparency wherever AI is applied — such as health insurance payment denials, for example. That’s as true for Apple (itself currently planning to extend Apple News into new markets) as it is for anyone else in the business of using AI to get things done.

To completely turn off the AI software, just head to your settings, scroll down and tap Apple Intelligence and Siri. Now, assuming you previously turned Apple Intelligence on, just toggle the top button off. This will kill all of the AI functionalities, from the Writing Tools to the email summaries to Genmoji, until you enable them again.

After numerous instances in which Apple’s new Apple Intelligence feature pushed false AI-generated headlines to iOS users, including a headline that claimed a star athlete had come out as gay, Apple will be rolling out an update that will clarify when push notifications consist of AI-generated text.

Apple said on Monday it would release an update to better indicate that its notification summaries are generated by artificial intelligence. "A software

An Apple spokesperson told Tom's Guide that Siri had never been used to build marketing profiles or sell information. The spokesperson stated that "Apple settled this case to avoid additional litigation so we can move forward from concerns about third-party grading that we already addressed in 2019."

Does the rise of artificial intelligence represent more of an opportunity for the world — or a curse? Because for all the clamor about boosted productivity and enhanced human potential, there’s also the rising demand for energy, processor power, memory requirements and ever more bloat on the machine.

Recognizing patterns is one thing that AI is actually pretty good at. Apple Intelligence should be taking on the spam problem across the board, because the end result should be that users spend less of their time managing their inboxes.

Complaints and ridicule have been mounting about mistakes by the iPhone maker’s hyped feature, and its flaws risk a serious setback.