At the Neural Information Processing Systems (NIPS) conference earlier this month, Russ Salakhutdinov of Apple showed a slide that Apple would begin to publish research papers. The previous ban on publishing research papers by Apple meant that less researchers in the cutting edge of AI research would work for the company. AI researchers present at the conference were blown away by the design and the type face of the slide, more than the announcement. Apple will start publishing, according to @rsalakhu at #nips2016 pic.twitter.com/I0ndKKc2vB Barely a month has gone by, and Apple has already published its first research paper.