Amar Subramanya spent mere months at Microsoft before replacing John Giannandrea Apple's failure to deliver advanced AI capabilities has triggered a changing of the guard. AI chief John Giannandrea is stepping down in favor of a new leader to steady the Siri ship.

Earlier today, Google made a surprise announcement that the Quick Share file transfer feature on Pixel 10 smartphones was able to work with AirDrop, enabling first-party file sharing between Android devices and Apple devices.

Nobody outside Google seems to have seen this coming: a new update from Google means that Apple’ AirDrop will work between iPhones and Android. But will Apple close it?

As Apple loses its AI head and reboots its work with a restructure, OpenAI is ramping up the pressure by declaring “code red.” Concerned about being overtaken by Google’s Gemini, CEO Sam Altman has said that all of the company’s efforts will be devoted to improving the quality of ChatGPT …

Apple Inc. (NASDAQ:AAPL) is one of the stocks that received Jim Cramer’s latest comments. Cramer highlighted the company’s deal with Google, as he stated: “But the biggest winner after Google may be Apple.

The leadership change signals a shift to come. Apple is expected to finalize a new partnership with Google, using the search giant's Gemini AI model to power an overhauled Siri assistant. Apple, it appears, is already picking from the winners, content to be in the customer's seat rather than a provider's.

The short version is that Google effectively built its own compatible implementation of the underlying AirDrop discovery and transfer behavior. It uses the same kinds of signals—Bluetooth LE for discovery, peer-to-peer Wi-Fi for the actual transfer—and wraps it in a security-hardened layer that Apple devices are willing to talk to.