IBM and Apple bring machine learning to business-focused iOS apps - SiliconANGLE

IBM Corp. and Apple Inc. are expanding their existing four-year-old pact to bring business applications to iOS devices. The crux of the announcement Tuesday at IBM's Think conference in Las Vegas is that the companies are integrating their respective artificial intelligence and machine learning technologies in order to make iOS enterprise applications smarter. They've also built a new console for developers using Apple's Swift programming language on IBM Cloud that they claim makes coding applications easier. To foster more AI in enterprise apps, IBM's Watson AI system is being integrated with Apple's Core ML machine learning framework. The new product, called IBM Watson Services for Core ML, is designed to help developers build apps that can learn from user activity in order to become smarter the more they're used.