It's all over but the waiting for Apple fans, who should get to see two new models of the iPhone unveiled Wednesday in San Francisco. The launch event may provide some clues about Apple's future, as the company deals with a slowing smartphone market. Apple's iPhone sales have dropped over the past year for the first time in the device's history. As a result, the company has poured more effort into services such as Apple Music, its voice assistant, Siri, and smart-home management -- all as a way to make users even more reliant on iPhones, regardless of whether they are the latest model. Consumers may already have seen a glimpse of Apple's future this summer when the company showed off how its mobile operating system, iOS 10, which will allow outside developers to use Siri more deeply for their own apps and create new functions for Apple's Messages service.

The worlds of AI, Deep Learning and Machine Intelligence are rapidly evolving and it's hard to keep up! To help you get up-to-date we've rounded up the latest must-see AI news, interviews and videos. RE•WORK blogs Should We Be Rethinking Unsupervised Learning? Meet the Woman Behind the Personality of Microsoft's AI Assistant'Cortana' Deborah Harrison believes people should come to expect civility, humor, transparency and kindness from interactions with AI, just as they expect the ability to update a calendar. Democratising Deep Learning: Q&A With Prof. Neil Lawrence It has taken 20 years to go from defeating Kasparov at Chess to Lee Sedol at Go, but what have the real advances been across this time?

We have, up to this point, had decades of benefits accrued through computing -- but what innovations will push the envelope for our seniors? Artificial intelligence (AI) is the information of science. AI is misunderstood and glamorized by some, making it out to be something other than what it really is. It gives us the ability to use computers to perform tasks that usually require human intelligence. What was dubbed "artificial" is coming to be more appropriately thought to be cognitive intelligence, giving us tremendous benefits in all fields including aging, health, and safety.

At this stage in the application platform growth and maturity of the AI Personal Assistant, there are many commands and options that common users cannot formulate due to a lack of knowledge and experience . A key usability feature for many integrated development environments (IDE) are their capability to use "Intelligent Code Completion" to guide their programmers to produce correct, functional syntax. This feature also enables the programmer to be unburdened by the need to look up syntax for each command reference, saving significant time. As the usage of the AI Personal Assistant grows, and their capabilities along with it, the amount of "command and parameters" knowledge required to use the AI Personal Assistant will also increase. For each command parameter [level\tree], a drop down list may appear giving users a set of options to select for the next parameter.

No longer simply the subject of science-fiction movies, artificial intelligence is making its way into the insurance enterprise. According to Accenture, four in five insurers are planning to or have deployed some sort of artificial intelligence technology in their enterprises. Allstate Business Insurance deployed ABie -- the Allstate Business Insurance Expert -- virtual assistant to help walk agents through the quoting process for complex products. The context-aware technology understands agents inputs and is able to direct them through the process without using the call center. AIG has partnered with Human Condition Safety to deploy devices that "couples wearable technology with artificial intelligence (AI) and building information modeling."

This story was delivered to BI Intelligence IoT Briefing subscribers. To learn more and subscribe, please click here. LG's SmartThinQ, a competitor to Amazon's popular Echo device, will have third-party functionality from Amazon's Alexa voice assistant, according to TechCrunch. The new device is expected to be unveiled at the IFA conference in Berlin in October. SmartThinQ will not have all of Alexa's capabilities from launch, featuring only the more basic capabilities, such as playing music or checking the weather initially.

Amazon.com Inc. AMZN 2.13 % recently poached an artificial-intelligence expert from rival eBay Inc., EBAY 0.40 % the latest move by the retail giant to strengthen its ability to quickly determine what users want. Hassan Sawaf joined Amazon as its director of artificial intelligence in Palo Alto, Calif., at its A9 labs, according to his LinkedIn page, with the goal of improving "the user experience for users of Amazon's search capability across all products and businesses." An eBay spokeswoman confirmed Mr. Sawaf left the company. Amazon and Mr. Sawaf didn't immediately respond to requests for comment. These companies and others are pouring money into artificial intelligence, which is expected to run everything from automobiles to houses in the future.

From picking our favorite restaurants to predicting weather and correcting global food shortages, artificial intelligence is already augmenting everyday life. Firmly rooted in the realm of science fiction, artificial intelligence (AI) has often felt external – something happening out there. In reality, AI is a huge part of our everyday lives. We just don't recognize it. Bank alerts of suspected fraudulent charges, smartphone notifications to exercise, Siri or Cortana's ability to recognize voices – are all examples of AI. "Artificial intelligence is basically where machines make sense, learn, interface with the external world, without human beings having to specifically program it," said Nidhi Chappell, director of machine learning at Intel. AI improves lives in many other areas too.

Sydney fintech startup Stockspot has become the first robo-advice platform in Australia to integrate AI and machine learning functions into financial advice. The company has today announced the launch of its new digital financial assistant to help clients optimise their investment behaviour. The digital financial assistant works by analysing thousands of clients and making targeted recommendations. As it learns, the technology will provide consumers with intuitive assistance to help investors optimise their profile and coach them to make better investment decisions. Instead of being a financial advisor that makes recommendations through listening to clients, Stockspot will now give advice based on consumer behaviour and actions.