Apple will lean on Google to help finish its bungled attempts to smarten up its virtual assistant Siri and bring other artificial intelligence features to the iPhone as the trendsetting company plays catch up in technology's latest craze.

Walmart's deal with Google allows the commerce giant keep up with customers using chatbots to save time or look for inspiration.

Apple is collaborating with Google to enhance its artificial intelligence features, according to a report. This partnership, announced today, includes a significant upgrade to Siri expected later this year.

Apple was facing increasing questions about its plans for artificial intelligence as other big tech companies invested tens of billions in the technology.

Disney instructed third-party producers to disentangle any Google AI tools from their workflows as part of its ongoing dispute with the tech titan

But private data will stay private and won't be used for training, Google says Google on Wednesday began inviting Gemini users to let its chatbot read their Gmail, Photos, Search history, and YouTube data in exchange for possibly more personalized responses.

Google has launched MedGemma 1.5 and MedASR, two open AI models for healthcare research. The tools focus on analysing medical images and transcribing clinical speech, offering researchers and developers flexible,