Welcome to 9 to 5 Mac Daily for Monday, April 13, 26. I'm your host, Chance Miller. We are supported this week by card pointers.

Leading off today, John Gianandria's time at Apple is officially coming to an end this week.

Gianandria joined Apple in 2018 after eight years at Google to head the company's

machine learning and AI strategy.

In December last year, however, Apple announced that he was stepping down from his position

and would serve as an advisor to the company before fully departing in the spring of

26.

Mark German now reports that Gene&A's time as an advisor to Apple wraps up this week.

The timing correlates to Apple's April 15th vesting date, meaning G&Andria remained on Apple's payroll

until now to let his next round of Stock Awards fully vest.

This is something referred to as resting and vesting in the industry.

German reports that Gene-Andrea's plan post-Apple is to join some company boards and do

advising work in the startup world.

He is unlikely to go out and join another tech company, though.

Apple has dramatically shaken up its AI teams and organization in the fallout of the Apple

intelligence debut.

Alongside the announcement of Gianandria's departure in December, Apple also announced

it had hired Amar Subramanya to serve as its VP of AI, reporting to Craig Federigi.

Subramanya spent 16 years at Google and five months at Microsoft before joining Apple.

Gianandria had control of the Siri team stripped in March 2025 after Tim Cook reportedly lost confidence in his ability to

execute on product development. As it stands right now, Siri is led by Mike Rockwell inside Apple,

while Jane Andrea's other responsibilities have been taken over by a combination of Craig Federigi,

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