{"id":141350,"date":"2025-09-14T00:14:03","date_gmt":"2025-09-14T00:14:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/141350\/"},"modified":"2025-09-14T00:14:03","modified_gmt":"2025-09-14T00:14:03","slug":"one-of-apples-top-ai-executives-is-reportedly-leaving-the-company","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/141350\/","title":{"rendered":"One of Apple&#8217;s top AI executives is reportedly leaving the company"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/mashable.com\/category\/apple\" target=\"_blank\" data-ga-click=\"1\" data-ga-label=\"$text\" data-ga-item=\"text-link\" data-ga-module=\"content_body\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Apple<\/a> is losing one of its top AI minds, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2025-09-12\/apple-ai-and-search-executive-robby-walker-to-leave-iphone-maker?embedded-checkout=true\" target=\"_blank\" data-ga-click=\"1\" data-ga-label=\"$text\" data-ga-item=\"text-link\" data-ga-module=\"content_body\" title=\"(opens in a new window)\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Bloomberg<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Robby Walker, who had been the senior director of Apple&#8217;s Answers, Information, and Knowledge team since earlier this year, is reportedly set to leave the tech giant next month. Walker had previously been in charge of Siri prior to moving over to AI development. This is on top of Apple losing other high-level AI employees to Meta back in July, also reported by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2025-07-07\/apple-loses-its-top-ai-models-executive-to-meta-s-hiring-spree\" target=\"_blank\" data-ga-click=\"1\" data-ga-label=\"$text\" data-ga-item=\"text-link\" data-ga-module=\"content_body\" title=\"(opens in a new window)\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Bloomberg<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>        SEE ALSO:<br \/>\n        <a href=\"https:\/\/mashable.com\/article\/apple-hypertension-notification-fda-approval\" class=\"flex items-center text-secondary-300\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\n            Apple gets the green light for Hypertension Notification feature<\/p>\n<p>        <\/a><\/p>\n<p>The report doesn&#8217;t give an explicit reason for why Walker or the other employees have left the company, but it certainly doesn&#8217;t paint an entirely positive picture of Apple&#8217;s AI development from the outside looking in. The company&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/mashable.com\/article\/apple-intelligence-explained-what-is-it-ai\" target=\"_blank\" data-ga-click=\"1\" data-ga-label=\"$text\" data-ga-item=\"text-link\" data-ga-module=\"content_body\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Apple Intelligence<\/a> suite of AI features has notably lagged behind competitors like Google. One very noteworthy example is that Google&#8217;s Gemini Live naturalistic chatbot has been up and running for a while, even as <a href=\"https:\/\/mashable.com\/article\/apple-siri-ai-upgrade-2026\" target=\"_blank\" data-ga-click=\"1\" data-ga-label=\"$text\" data-ga-item=\"text-link\" data-ga-module=\"content_body\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Apple&#8217;s long-awaited AI-powered Siri upgrade<\/a> has been reportedly delayed into next year. <\/p>\n<p>\n            Mashable Light Speed\n        <\/p>\n<p>It remains to be seen whether or not all of this AI business is a <a href=\"https:\/\/mashable.com\/article\/openai-sam-altman-ai-bubble\" target=\"_blank\" data-ga-click=\"1\" data-ga-label=\"$text\" data-ga-item=\"text-link\" data-ga-module=\"content_body\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">bubble just waiting to burst<\/a> or something that&#8217;s truly here to stay, but at the pace Apple is moving, one might get the impression that the company is betting on the former. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Apple is losing one of its top AI minds, according to Bloomberg. 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