Welcome to the Tech Meme Right Home for Monday, October 23, I'm Brian McCullough.

Today, Mark Germin suggests Apple is scrambling to go all in on generative AI.

Also, will there be a mini Mac event by the end of this month?

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It's one of those Mark Germin Apple Scoop Mondays where we need to lead off with the contents of Mark's weekend newsletter.

Mark sources say that Apple was caught flat-footed by the generative AI revolution and is now

on course to spend around a billion dollars a year to herdly add AI tech across everything, I iOS 18, Siri, music, all their apps.

Chief Executive Officer Tim Cook says that Apple has been working on generative AI technology

for years but I can tell you in no uncertain terms

that Apple executives were caught off-guard by the industry's sudden AI fever and

have been scrambling since late last year to make up for lost time. There's a lot of

anxiety about this and it's considered a pretty big

miss internally, a person with knowledge of the matter told power on. As I first reported in July,

the company built its own large language model called Ajax and rolled out an internal chatbot dubbed

Apple GPT to test out the functionality.

The critical next step is determining if the technology is up to snuff with the competition

and how Apple will actually apply it to its products.

Apple's senior vice presidents in charge of AI and software engineering, John Gien Andrea and Craig

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