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Alexandr Wang says Daniel Gross, a former Apple executive now at Meta, helped bring the two companies together. Axios frames the rapprochement against their years of disagreements over privacy and the future of computing, including AI.
Why it mattersThat is a useful signal of warmer relations between two influential technology companies, but not evidence of a particular deal or joint product. Axios’s supplied account gives no details of what the companies may do together. The handshake is the news; what comes after it remains the interesting bit.
Discuss: Should Apple and Meta’s shared interests in AI outweigh their long-running disagreements over privacy, or is that a trade-off neither company should make?
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