{"id":208670,"date":"2024-02-28T12:19:21","date_gmt":"2024-02-28T12:19:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/2024\/02\/28\/apples-car-project-may-be-dead\/"},"modified":"2025-06-25T17:21:30","modified_gmt":"2025-06-25T17:21:30","slug":"apples-car-project-may-be-dead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/2024\/02\/28\/apples-car-project-may-be-dead\/","title":{"rendered":"Apple&#8217;s car project may be dead"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>After roughly a decade, multiple leadership changes and a regular spot in Apple rumor reports, the Apple Car project, internally known as Project Titan, <a data-i13n=\"cpos:1;pos:1\" href=\"https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/the-apple-car-project-is-reportedly-dead-203012885.html\" data-ylk=\"slk:could well be dead;cpos:1;pos:1;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">could well be dead<\/a>. A new report from<em> Bloomberg<\/em>\u2019s Mark Gurman says Apple has officially canceled the car, breaking the news to nearly 2,000 employees working on it.<\/p>\n<p>Apple will reportedly move \u201cmany employees working on the car\u201d to the company\u2019s artificial intelligence division where they will focus on generative AI projects, which Apple is expected to share more about later this year.<\/p>\n<p>Leaks over the years revealed the company\u2019s ambitions to expand into a brand-new product category. At the beginning of the project in 2014, Apple wanted to build a fully self-driving car without pedals or a steering wheel, with a remote command center ready to take over for a driver. More recently, Apple pared down its ambitions, with the most recent reports suggesting Apple\u2019s car would be a more standard electric vehicle.<\/p>\n<p>Now, we may never know. Would you have bought an Apple car?<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Mat Smith<\/p>\n<h3>The biggest stories you might have missed<\/h3>\n<p><a data-i13n=\"cpos:2;pos:1\" href=\"https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/best-iphone-160012979.html\" data-ylk=\"slk:Which iPhone should you buy?;cpos:2;pos:1;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a data-i13n=\"cpos:3;pos:1\" href=\"https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/amazon-accused-of-using-ai-to-replicate-the-voices-of-actors-in-road-house-remake-054408057.html\" data-ylk=\"slk:Amazon accused of using AI to \u2018replicate the voices\u2019 of actors in Road House remake;cpos:3;pos:1;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a data-i13n=\"cpos:4;pos:1\" href=\"https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/playstation-is-laying-off-900-staff-across-naughty-dog-insomniac-and-other-studios-145323606.html\" data-ylk=\"slk:PlayStation is laying off 900 staff across Naughty Dog, Insomniac and other studios;cpos:4;pos:1;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u200b\u200b<em>You can get these reports delivered daily direct to your inbox. <\/em><a data-i13n=\"cpos:5;pos:1\" href=\"https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/about\/newsletter\/\" data-ylk=\"slk:Subscribe right here!;cpos:5;pos:1;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \"><em>Subscribe right here!<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<h3>It could be the first Pok\u00e9mon game for Nintendo\u2019s next console.<\/h3>\n<figure class=\"caas-figure\">\n<div class=\"caas-figure-with-pb\" style=\"max-height: 405px\">\n<div>\n<div class=\"caas-img-container caas-img-loader\" style=\"padding-bottom:60%\"><a class=\"link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/pokemon-legends-z-a-for-switch-returns-the-series-to-lumiose-city-174208223.html\" data-ylk=\"\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"caas-img caas-lazy\" alt=\"TMA\" src=\"https:\/\/s.yimg.com\/ny\/api\/res\/1.2\/9s4_7M62bqCNbz43rk2F2g--\/YXBwaWQ9aGlnaGxhbmRlcjt3PTk2MDtoPTU3Ng--\/https:\/\/s.yimg.com\/os\/creatr-uploaded-images\/2024-02\/ada6ea50-d627-11ee-9fff-4b64a21e6b76\"\/><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"TMA\" src=\"https:\/\/s.yimg.com\/ny\/api\/res\/1.2\/9s4_7M62bqCNbz43rk2F2g--\/YXBwaWQ9aGlnaGxhbmRlcjt3PTk2MDtoPTU3Ng--\/https:\/\/s.yimg.com\/os\/creatr-uploaded-images\/2024-02\/ada6ea50-d627-11ee-9fff-4b64a21e6b76\" class=\"caas-img\"\/><\/noscript><\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><figcaption class=\"caption-collapse\"><span class=\"caption-credit\"> The Pokemon Company<\/span><\/figcaption><\/p>\n<\/figure>\n<p>The Pok\u00e9mon Company revealed the franchise\u2019s latest Legends entry on Tuesday. <em>Pok\u00e9mon Legends: Z-A<\/em> returns the series to Lumiose City, last seen as a region in Pok\u00e9mon X and Y on the Nintendo 3DS. The <em>Pok\u00e9mon Legends: Z-A<\/em> trailer \u2014 an extended teaser \u2014 doesn\u2019t show any gameplay footage, and its shots of Lumiose City use wireframe models to tease a city in mid-development, according to the announcement.<\/p>\n<p><a data-i13n=\"cpos:7;pos:1\" href=\"https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/pokemon-legends-z-a-for-switch-returns-the-series-to-lumiose-city-174208223.html\" data-ylk=\"slk:Continue reading.;cpos:7;pos:1;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \"><strong>Continue reading.<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<h3>Millions more tracks are likely to vanish.<\/h3>\n<p>TikTok is being forced to take down more music from its platform. Universal Music Group (UMG) recently yanked recordings it owns or distributes from TikTok, including tracks from superstars like Taylor Swift, Billie Eilish and The Weeknd. The standoff is now impacting songs published by UMG, with millions more tracks to be muted on TikTok by the end of this week. Due to an issue called split copyrights, if a Universal Music Publishing Group-contracted writer has contributed to a song, that track may have to be removed from TikTok. So artists who have collaborated with Taylor Swift, Adele, Justin Bieber, Mariah Carey, Ice Spice, Elton John, Harry Styles and SZA may see their songs disappear from TikTok too.<\/p>\n<p><a data-i13n=\"cpos:9;pos:1\" href=\"https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/tiktok-is-muting-more-songs-amid-its-tussle-with-universal-music-161839190.html\" data-ylk=\"slk:Continue reading.;cpos:9;pos:1;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \"><strong>Continue reading.<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<h3>What could go wrong?<\/h3>\n<p>Google has quietly struck deals with publishers to use new generative AI tools to publish stories. The deals, reportedly worth tens of thousands of dollars a year, are apparently part of the Google News Initiative (GNI), a six-year-old program that funds media literacy projects, fact-checking tools and other resources for newsrooms. <em>Adweek<\/em> says publishers can use the beta tools to create aggregated content more efficiently, indexing recently published reports generated by other organizations, like government agencies and neighboring news outlets, then summarizing and publishing them as a new article.<\/p>\n<p>Publishers in the program are apparently not required to disclose their use of AI nor are the aggregated websites informed that their content is used to create AI-written stories on other sites. Publications like<a data-i13n=\"cpos:11;pos:1\" href=\"https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/cnet-gets-caught-playing-ai-mad-libs-with-its-financial-news-coverage-001026432.html\" data-ylk=\"slk:\u00a0CNET;cpos:11;pos:1;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \"><em>\u00a0<\/em><em><\/em><\/a><em>\u00a0<\/em>and<a data-i13n=\"cpos:12;pos:1\" href=\"https:\/\/futurism.com\/sports-illustrated-ai-generated-writers\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:\u00a0Sports Illustrated;cpos:12;pos:1;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \"><em>\u00a0<\/em><em><\/em><\/a><em>\u00a0<\/em>have been widely criticized for attempting to pass off AI-authored articles as written by human staffers.<\/p>\n<p><a data-i13n=\"cpos:13;pos:1\" href=\"https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/google-is-reportedly-paying-publishers-thousands-of-dollars-to-use-its-ai-to-write-stories-215943624.html\" data-ylk=\"slk:Continue reading.;cpos:13;pos:1;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \"><strong>Continue reading.<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>[ad_2]<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/the-morning-after-apples-car-project-may-be-dead-121513763.html?src=rss\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] After roughly a decade, multiple leadership changes and a regular spot in Apple rumor reports, the Apple Car project, internally known as Project Titan,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":208671,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[159],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208670"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=208670"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208670\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":341637,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208670\/revisions\/341637"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/208671"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=208670"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=208670"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=208670"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}