A packed crowd took in the latest Iphone Launch at Apple Headquarters in a helicopter california. They were all here to see this. Ceo Tim Cook says the Iphone 16 is the first to be built from the ground up for artificial intelligence. The software is integrated into host of applications across the iphone. Take this Photo Editor allowing you to remove people from the background and this tool which helps rewrite your E Mails. There is an upgrade to The Voice assistant, which can now take written commands and is said to work better with natural spoken language. For now Apple Intelligence features will not be available in the eu as executives find themselves in the middle of a dustup with regulators over the digital markets act. The features will, however, be available in the uk. That is when they are released. The Test Version will start with the roll out in the us next month with more coming of the year. When it becomes available analysts say they are keen to use ai available analysts sa
Several metres deep. In the north of the territory, the un says a convoy of its staff carrying out polio vaccinations was held at gunpoint for eight hours by the israeli army on monday. The staff have now been released, but the un says it s not sure whether it can continue the vaccination campaign as planned. Meanwhile, syria says at least 18 people have been killed and dozens injured in a series of israeli air strikes. Syrian state media says multiple sites were targeted including scientific research centers. Monitoring organisations say that one of the sites, in the city of masyaf, was housing pro iranian weapons experts. Iran rejected reports that iranian sites were hit. Israel says it will not comment on reports of the strikes. Israel has previously acknowledged carrying out hundreds of strikes in recent years on targets in syria that it says are linked to iran. Our middle east correspondent, hugo bachega has more on the reports from beirut. There has been a sharp increase in the n
We start with the social media app tiktok because its ceo has vowed to keep on fighting after the us House Of Representatives passed a bill that could see the app banned in america. Shou zi chew released a video on tiktok threatening legal action and warning that if the bill becomes law it will mean the end of tiktok for its 170 million users in the us. Well hearfrom him injust a moment, but first, heres our us Business Correspondent erin delmore who has been following developments on capitol hill. The houseboat sets the stage for what could become an ultimatum to tiktok Chinese Owned Company bytedance. Selby avenue or it will be banned. There is a way to go between here and there. It needs to go through this and it faces an uncertain future. The Senate Majority leader has been noncommittal about whether he will bring it up for a vote. Some studies are only about to vote against it. If it does move through the senate, President Biden that he will sign it. Components of the bill argue t
A surge in the cost of fuel pushed up us Consumer Prices by 0. 6 , but if you strip out the volatile cost of food and fuel, the underlying rate was half that, coming in at 0. 3 . It could give Americas Central Bank some breathing room, encouraging the Federal Reserve to keep Interest Rates on hold next wednesday. Lets speak live to our north America Business correspondent, erin delmore. What do these figures tell us about the state of the us economy . Weill. The state of the us economy . Well, we are seeing the state of the us economy . Well, we are seeing the the state of the us economy . Well, we are seeing the second the state of the us economy . Vii we are seeing the second straight monthly rise in the Consumer Price index here, and that matters because the fed is meeting next week. This is in fact the last day dump they are going to get before they get together and everybody is holding their breath to see whether the fed will continue its campaign of Interest Rate rises or whether
the big bucks rewarding terms that are not onlyjumped up but rewarding the ai bandwagon like nvidia that makes the chips that powers the ai revolution overtaking apple itself to become the most viable company in the world by market value position. microsoft which has its own long standing partnership with openai for me is the most valuable. apple s entrance into the artificial intelligence space may be viewed as late, when compared to rivals microsoft and google. but experts say this could herald in a new frontier for the technology. julie uusk, an independent technology analyst, gave us her take. a few things stood out from the conference for me. first, with the announcement from apple that they are going to invent generative ai into so many of their devices applications and experiences the offer to consumers, they remind us with most of the valley with large language value is still at the application layer. they also remind us that generative ai is just one portion of the e