Enterprise AI hinges on high-accuracy outputs, requiring better data context, unified architectures, and rigorous measurement frameworks, says Bavesh Patel, senior vice president at Databricks, and Rajan Padmanabhan, unit technology officer at Infosys. Artificial intelligence may be dominating boardroom agendas, but many enterprises are discovering that the biggest obstacle to meaningful adoption is the state of their data. While consumer-facing AI tools have dazzled users with speed and ease, enterprise leaders are discovering that deploying AI at scale requires something far less glamorous but far more consequential: data infrastructure that is unified, governed, and fit for purpose. That gap between AI ambition and enterprise readiness is becoming one of the defining challenges of this next phase of digital transformation. As Bavesh Patel, senior vice president of Databricks, puts it, "the quality of that AI and how effective that AI is, is really dependent on information in your ...

Tim Cook's Legacy Is Turning Apple Into a Subscription The soon-to-exit Apple CEO went all in on services. Now, the incoming CEO, John Ternus, will need to embrace the AI era. Tim Cook's tenure as CEO at Apple, which is coming to a close September 1, will likely be defined by operational efficiency and financial growth, ushering Apple into its trillion-dollar era. But his most significant achievement might be in doubling down on Apple's services business, which includes iCloud, the App Store, Apple Music, Apple TV+, News+, and more. It's the subscription layer on top of iOS, and almost all of the service apps are tightly integrated with Messages, the glue that keeps people stuck to their iPhones .

John Ternus, the company's senior vice president of hardware engineering, will replace Cook as CEO on September 1. Cook will stay on as executive chairman. Tim Cook is stepping down as the CEO of Apple and transitioning to a role as the company's executive chairman, effective September 1, the company announced on Monday. John Ternus, Apple's senior vice president of hardware engineering, will replace Cook as CEO . Cook's departure had been speculated upon in recent months. In an era when every other Big Tech company has thrown significant resources at developing advanced AI, Apple is widely perceived as a laggard.

After months of anticipation, Apple has finally unveiled its next major iPhone update - iOS 26. The design overhaul, announced at Apple's Worldwide Developer Conference (WWDC), brings translucent, glass-like effects to app icons, the lock screen, and home screen. Craig Federighi, Apple's senior vice president of Software Engineering, described this so-called'Liquid Glass Design' as'gorgeous'. However, it hasn't gone down well on social media, where users have dubbed the glass-like elements as ugly and difficult to use. 'Liquid Glass Design is the ugliest thing Apple has ever done!' one user vented.

Craig Federighi's opening remarks were nearly derailed by a protester who snuck into WWDC 2025 Monday afternoon. It's not clear what the protester said while they tried to interrupt Federighi's presentation of iOS 26, CNBC reported. Several major technology events have been interrupted by protests recently, most of which supported Hamas and protested the tech industry's business ties to the Israeli government. Apple CEO Tim Cook closed out Monday presentation of the company's new operating system by announcing that iOS 26 is now available to developers for Beta testing today. That means a pre-release version of the iOS 26 operating system for iPhones is now accessible for registered Apple developers to test.

Get Apple's all-new MacBook Air, iPad Air and Mac Studio (Apple) March has already been a busy month for Apple, which unveiled a handful of new editions to its most popular products in the last week. Apple fans can now get a new version of the MacBook Air and the iPad Air, both with brand-new, high-powered chips for a faster user experience. The company also announced its most powerful Mac ever, the Mac Studio. MacBook fans can get the newest MacBook Air with an M4 chip. The chip makes all the tasks users complete on their laptop faster and more efficient.

Google, Meta, and Microsoft, as well as startups like OpenAI and Anthropic, all had well-developed strategies for generative AI by the time Apple finally announced its own push this June. Conventional wisdom suggested this entrance was unfashionably late. Its leaders say the company is arriving just in time--and that it's been stealthily preparing for this moment for years. That's part of the message I got from speaking with key Apple executives this fall about how they created what is now called Apple Intelligence. Senior vice president for software engineering Craig Federighi is a familiar character in an ongoing web series in the tech world known as keynote product launches.

Designing microchips is among the most complex tasks in the digital world. It requires vast amounts of theoretical and practical knowledge, as well as a heaping dose of creativity. There are components to select, layouts to consider, and complex software models to understand. It is safe to say that squeezing millions or billions of circuits onto a tiny silicon wafer to eke out maximum performance with minimal energy consumption pushes up against the limits of human ingenuity. Design and engineering teams increasingly are turning to both classical AI and generative AI to rethink, reinvent, and remake the modern microchip.

Apple has a history of succeeding despite being late to market so many times before: the iPhone, the Apple Watch, AirPods, to name a few cases. Now the company hopes to show that the same approach will work with generative artificial intelligence, announcing today an Apple Intelligence initiative that bakes the technology into just about every device and application Apple offers. Apple unveiled its long-awaited AI strategy at the company's Worldwide Developer Conference (WWDC) today. "This is a moment we've been working towards for a long time," said Apple CEO Tim Cook at the event. "We're tremendously excited about the power of generating models."

Today, we are excited to announce that GPT-4 is available in preview in Azure OpenAI Service. Customers and partners already using Azure OpenAI Service can join the waitlist to access GPT-4 and start building with OpenAI’s most advanced model yet. With this milestone, we are proud to bring the world’s most advanced AI models—including GPT-3.5, ChatGPT, and DALL•E 2—to Azure customers, backed by Azure AI-optimized infrastructure, enterprise-readiness, compliance, data security, and privacy controls, along with many integrations with other Azure services.