Because of “Apple's intelligence”: Elon Musk threatens to ban iPhones from companies

Shortly after announcing the integration of common AI functions into operating systems and closely linking them with Siri on iPhones, American billionaire Elon Musk threatened to ban mobile phones from his companies. Musk is the CEO of Tesla, SpaceX, and SMS Service X (formerly Twitter). Regarding the latter, he described Apple's actions as an “unacceptable security breach” and explained that iPhones would then have to be handed in at entrances. While Musk apparently assumes that the OpenAI AI group will have access to all iPhone content as part of the collaboration with Apple, several assurances were made during the presentation that questions will be asked before data is transferred and that several functions will be implemented. Completely locally.

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Apple announced “Apple Intelligence” on Monday evening at the start of this year's WWDC developer conference. Different AI models will be used directly on the local device or largely protected in the cloud, for example, to process images, rewrite email texts in a certain style or create AI images for a presentation. Technology should also be able to access existing data in order to move forward in a context-dependent manner. It was emphasized several times during the presentation that Apple would not have access to the data, but technical details on how that promise would be implemented are still up in the air. At least Elon Musk has already formed his opinion.

In a series of text messages, Musk immediately criticized Apple's ads. He personally asked Apple CEO Tim Cook to stop “evil spyware.” He also categorically rejected explicit references to the fact that the data necessary for specific requests will only be sent to OpenAI and ChatGPT after prior confirmation by the user and demanded that the application be simply left in the application. Meanwhile, Musk, who also runs his own artificial intelligence company xAI, claimed that his companies may find themselves having to develop their own smartphones using their own AI technology. Neither Apple nor OpenAI commented on Musk's criticism to Reuters.

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