{"id":57737,"date":"2026-07-31T03:39:53","date_gmt":"2026-07-31T03:39:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/three-things-we-learned-about-ai-from-big-tech-earnings\/"},"modified":"2026-07-31T03:39:53","modified_gmt":"2026-07-31T03:39:53","slug":"three-things-we-learned-about-ai-from-big-tech-earnings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/three-things-we-learned-about-ai-from-big-tech-earnings\/","title":{"rendered":"Three things we learned about AI from Big Tech earnings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">AI tools may have not yet proven to be a consumer tech revolution on the scale of the internet or <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2018\/02\/01\/google-ceo-sundar-pichai-ai-is-more-important-than-fire-electricity.html\" class=\"ssrcss-1e0jzsh-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\">even electricity<span class=\"visually-hidden ssrcss-i2z2ig-VisuallyHidden e16en2lz0\">, <!-- -->external<\/span><\/a>, as many tech executives have promised for years. But there is still huge demand from people for new technology.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Google said last week that 950 million people are using its Gemini chatbot at least once a month, three times the users it had a year ago.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Apple on Thursday said that new versions of its core products, the Mac computer, iPhone and iPad, have been selling better this year than the company planned for or expected.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">So much so that it <a href=\"http:\/\/teams.public.onecdn.static.microsoft\/evergreen-assets\/safelinks\/2\/atp-safelinks.html\" class=\"ssrcss-1e0jzsh-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\">warned investors<span class=\"visually-hidden ssrcss-i2z2ig-VisuallyHidden e16en2lz0\">, <!-- -->external<\/span><\/a> that sales of such products would slow down, because Apple is unable to get enough of the microchips that would be required to meet buyer demand.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The company is, however, anticipating a lot of excitement from Apple users for its impending update of Siri, its AI voice assistant within its products that is getting an overhaul with the help of Google&#8217;s Gemini chatbot.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Outgoing chief executive Tim Cook said Apple already has plans to charge users who wish to make heavier use of the new Siri, given feedback received from user testing so far.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;We&#8217;re off-the-charts excited about Siri AI&#8221;, Cook said. &#8220;We do believe there will be people who want to use it \u2013 a lot.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/cp87m46g392o?at_medium=RSS&#038;at_campaign=rss\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AI tools may have not yet proven to be a consumer tech revolution on the scale of the internet or even electricity, external, as many tech executives have promised for years. But there is still huge demand from people for new technology. Google said last week that 950 million people are using its Gemini chatbot [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":57738,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[53],"tags":[519,8036,4337,459],"class_list":["post-57737","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","tag-big","tag-earnings","tag-learned","tag-tech"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57737","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=57737"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57737\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57739,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57737\/revisions\/57739"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/57738"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57737"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57737"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57737"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}