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Podcast: Saturday Morning with Jack Tame
Episode: Paul Stenhouse: Apple acquired Q.ai and beat Wall Street's revenue expectations, and Amazon let 16,000 people go
Description: Apple makes a surprise acquisition  Apple isn't known for being an M&A machine, but has made a $2 billion deal (according to the FT) to purchase an AI company – surprise, surprise. Q.ai is a four-year-old startup in the speech detection space, which can understand whispered speech and improve speech detection in noisy environments. They also have a patent to read your lips and understand micro-expressions on your face. I'd expect to see this new tech deployed on the Vision Pro and the AirPods. Q.ai has 100 employees – that's $20m of value per employee.   Apple...