Adam Lashinsky

Adam Lashinsky is a renowned journalist and author with extensive experience in covering technology, particularly Apple. He served as the executive editor of Fortune magazine and wrote the book “Inside Apple: How America’s Most Admired – and Secretive – Company Really Works”. He is currently working on a biography of William Safire. Lashinsky has a unique perspective on Apple's history, evolution, and relationship with AI technology. His work often highlights the company's strengths as well as its shortcomings in the tech industry. He resides in San Francisco.

Biography:  https://www.washingtonpost.com/people/adam-lashinsky/

77%

The overall score is a weighted number that takes into account conflict of interest, bias, deception and other practices that undermines the credibility of the source. It is calculated as:
Analysis.OverallConflictOfInterestScore * 0.3F + Analysis.OverallBiasScore * 0.3F + Analysis.DeceptivenessScore * 0.3F + Analysis.ReadabilityScore * 0.1F

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The Daily's Verdict

This author has a mixed reputation for journalistic standards. It is advisable to fact-check, scrutinize for bias, and check for conflicts of interest before relying on the author's reporting.

Bias

90%

Examples:

  • Apple has been notably short on and defensive about its AI chops for going on a decade now.
  • Apple plans merely to refer users to OpenAI, but in a way that shields their data from the start-up. It’s a shocking acknowledgment that Apple doesn’t have technology to match ChatGPT.
  • Despite jumping to an early lead in 2011 with its AI phone assistant, Siri, Apple had fallen badly behind the competition.

Conflicts of Interest

100%

Examples:

  • None of this means Apple’s entry into AI will be a slam dunk.

Contradictions

85%

Examples:

  • Apple directs technology to its devices and sometimes blocks competitors from them
  • Apple has been secretive about its AI developments and has yet to demonstrate a 'killer app'

Deceptions

35%

Examples:

  • Apple has been notably short on and defensive about its AI chops for going on a decade now.
  • Apple’s critics still went gaga over the company’s news.
  • The last of these surely would have made Steve Jobs turn in his proverbial grave, given his well-known disdain for the PC software maker against whom he competed for so long.

Recent Articles

Apple's New AI Feature, Apple Intelligence: Available on iPhone 15 Pro and Above

Apple's New AI Feature, Apple Intelligence: Available on iPhone 15 Pro and Above

Broke On: Wednesday, 19 June 2024 Apple's new iOS 18 software introduces iPhone Mirroring and SharePlay Screen Sharing, available only on newer devices with sufficient chip power. Apple Intelligence, a personal AI system offering email rewriting and notification triage, is described as a 'secondary brain' running on the device itself. Despite concerns about data protection and potential miscommunications, Apple's integration of AI into daily life has been compared to the iPhone's impact on communication.