BREAKING: Apple is considering using AI technology from Anthropic or OpenAI to power Siri, sidelining its own in-house models in a potentially blockbuster move aimed at turning around its AI effort. bloomberg.com/news/articles/… The effort to explore outside large language models instead of its Apple Foundation Models has taken a toll on its AI team. Tom Gunter, one of its top engineers, left last week. And the team behind MLX, Apple’s open source AI framework, threatened to quit.

Power On: Apple is set to embark on a very busy fall 2022 and first half of 2023. Details on the iPhone 14, new iPads, Apple Watches, HomePod, Apple TV, mixed reality headset, M2 and M3 chips and much more. bloomberg.com/news/newslette… Apple is planning a new Apple TV with an A14 chip (up from A12) and a new, larger HomePod with a new display on top and the S8 chip from this fall’s new Apple Watch.

There is a very nasty iPhone and @TMobile bug where iMessage and FaceTime for a device’s phone number will randomly deactivate and there is no way to reactivate it. The only solution that worked for me is getting a new physical SIM card. An extremely disappointing issue. Another solution flagged to me by some is removing your eSIM account from the iPhone and setting that up again. But that’s complex for most people and shouldn’t need to ever to be done. Not being able to send and receive texts is obviously not ideal. Not “it just works.”

Apple’s first VR/AR headset risks being delayed until 2023 and a planned unveiling at WWDC 2022 could be pushed back after development snags related to overheating, cameras and software. Company is still building support into iOS 16 and many more details: bloomberg.com/news/articles/… This isn’t the first delay for the headset. Apple had previously aimed to introduce it in 2021 and ship it this year. The company has been developing the device since around 2015 and is counting on it to be the first of many headsets that could eventually replace the iPhone.

Judge in Epic vs Apple case says she is “inclined” to NOT grant relief for the Fornite removal (as in, to not force Apple to put it back on the App Store,) but IS “inclined” to not let Apple block Epic from developing/distributing Unreal Engine. Inclined is not a decision. Epic’s lawyer: Asking Epic to remove the direct payment to Epic option in Fornite is “really asking us to require consumers to pay more than they should in a competitive environment.”

New story: Apple plans to start switching from Intel to custom Mac ARM processors by 2021 — Company is working on at least 3 chips, some with 12+ cores. The latest details on Project Kalamata and what it means for the Apple-Intel relationship here: bloomberg.com/news/articles/… Apple’s ARM Mac chips in development are based on the A14 processor coming to the iPhone and iPad this year and next, but heavily souped up. Apple is also planning a Mac GPU as part of the switch from Intel. Story with @debbywuintaipei @ianmking: bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

The screen on my Galaxy Fold review unit is completely broken and unusable just two days in. Hard to know if this is widespread or not. When I tap the screen as well with the top of my finger and the fingernail hits it (very common), it also leaves a seemingly permanent indent. Samsung is going to send a replacement and I’ll share updates.

In January, @tim_cook said Apple is accelerating initiatives to offset the slowed iPhone sales. Perhaps that is why we saw a March event with only 1 of 5 major announcements available today. TV app/channels is May, credit card is summer, video service is fall, gaming is fall. Apple could have held new TV app and channels till WWDC in early June and released that day. Could have tied gaming service to the iPhone 11 in September, certainly was a typical WWDC/developer announcement perfect for June. They even announced macOS 10.15’s TV app early.