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Apple's Craig Federighi made waves this week by drawing a clear line around Siri's personality. In an interview, Federighi said the redesigned Siri is deliberately built to avoid the sycophantic behavior users have come to expect from OpenAI and Google's chatbots. The message from Apple is straightforward — Siri is a tool, not a companion.
That tension between what AI should be and who pays the price for building it runs through our next story. Workers in India are being hired to generate the training data that powers AI robotics systems — systems that, once mature, may eliminate the very roles those workers currently fill. It is a quiet and uncomfortable loop that the industry has yet to reckon with honestly.
Meanwhile, Oracle finds itself arguing with itself. The OpenJDK Governing Board has banned generative AI contributions from its open-source codebase, citing intellectual property concerns. Yet Oracle's own GraalVM project, operating under the same contributor agreement, explicitly permits them. Two projects, one parent company, two opposite answers to the same question.
That is where things stand today. Keep surfing. Tech Beat out.
