OpenAI Acquires Sky, all they need now is ...Net? ➹

Remember Sky, the app created by the former Shortcuts team at Apple? Well, guess what: OpenAI did what Apple should have done and acquired them.

At the time it was announced I ranted on about how Apple had managed to mis-manage this kind of talent and vision for Mac automation so badly that they ended up leaving the company and not having any of what they showed at the time incorporated in Apple Intelligence, and I am sticking to my guns on that one–Apple clearly has a talent management problem, and the departure of more and more of their AI talent to other companies should be ample proof of that.

But Tim Cook and company seem to be perfectly fine with that (and the declining quality of their software) as long as they keep selling new hardware, because that’s all the innovation they seem to care about these days.