“The bulk of Apple’s designers” are reporting directly to Molly Anderson now, according to Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman in today’s Power On newsletter. A quick US Patent Office search shows Anderson on Apple patents granted as far back as 2016.
Apple COO Jeff Williams has overseen the team since Jony Ive successor Evans Hankey left, close to two years ago.
Responding to the RIAA’s copyright lawsuit, AI songmaker sites defended their models as being like kids learning rock and roll or tools enabling creativity. Country artist Tift Merritt had a different take after being shown a song AI music generator Udio spat out when prompted to mimic her style:
... the “imitation” Udio created “doesn’t make the cut for any album of mine.”
“This is a great demonstration of the extent to which this technology is not transformative at all ... It’s stealing.”
I had similar thoughts back in March.
Apple has released Lake Vrangla, one of two Vision Pro Environments that have spent months marked “coming soon,” and boy is it moody.
So what is Lake Vrangla? Well, it’s a small lake roughly 25 miles west (as the crow flies) of Oslo, Norway. You can see it fog-free on YouTube. Seems pretty!
