Personal Assistant Systems
You should probably have the "Improve Siri & Dictation" setting off -- here's why
An innocuous setting allows Apple to analyze your conversations with Siri and other built-in voice features like translations and dictation. If the Improve Siri & Dictation toggle is enabled, you're giving the company permission to store and review the transcripts and audio of your interactions with Siri, as well as translation or dictation requests. You'll be asked if you want to enable this when setting up a Apple device, but you might have done that a long time ago and forgot. If you've already turned it on, you might have done so without knowing the extent of Apple's data processing and retention policies. The speech processing models supported by this data are essential to Apple's AI initiatives, which are even more relevant now with the arrival of the new AI-powered Siri in iOS 27.
Luana Lopes Lara Is on the Frontlines of Evolving Prediction Markets
Follow this author to personalize your feed and get instant alerts. Follow Go to your personalized feed WHY FOLLOW? Smart Alerts: Get notified about major news as it happens. Luana Lopes Lara is inherently an optimist--perhaps because Brazilians, she says, have a more positive outlook than people from other countries. That trait has served her well as chief operating officer of Kalshi, the New York-based prediction market that has boomed in recent years as people take up placing money on everything from what words the President will use in his speeches to the price of a Costco hot dog.
Ana Valdez Is Making Business Leaders Recognize Latino Economic Power
Follow this author to personalize your feed and get instant alerts. Follow Go to your personalized feed WHY FOLLOW? Smart Alerts: Get notified about major news as it happens. Sometimes, when Ana Valdez walks into a C-Suite office and introduces herself, she can see the person taking in her Mexican accent and her last name with some surprise. "They were expecting somebody different," Valdez says.
How Netflix Star Sofia Carson Brings Her Identity to Work
Follow this author to personalize your feed and get instant alerts. Follow Go to your personalized feed WHY FOLLOW? Smart Alerts: Get notified about major news as it happens. In the 2025 Netflix romance, Sofia Carson plays Anna De La Vega, an American student studying abroad at one of England's most prestigious universities who, like Carson herself, is of Latin American descent. Anna's Colombian, Argentine, and Cuban heritage is woven naturally into her character's everyday life instead of being treated as a barrier she has to overcome.