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

Apple plans AI-powered robots, lifelike Siri, smart displays, and security cameras to challenge Amazon, Google, and Meta.

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" [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."

Apple CEO Tim Cook spoke to employees at an all-hands meeting today, providing some insight into Apple's work on AI. According to Bloomberg,

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.

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.

A new Apple-backed AI model trained on Apple Watch behavioral data can now predict a wide range of health conditions more accurately than

The company launched the Apple Intelligence platform last year in a bid to catch up with rivals. But the initial features haven’t been widely used, and other AI platforms remain more powerful.

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.