{"id":988998,"date":"2026-01-31T08:25:53","date_gmt":"2026-01-31T02:55:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=988998"},"modified":"2026-01-31T08:35:57","modified_gmt":"2026-01-31T03:05:57","slug":"apple-acquires-audio-ai-startup-q-ai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/01\/31\/apple-acquires-audio-ai-startup-q-ai\/","title":{"rendered":"Apple acquires audio AI startup Q.ai"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SAN FRANCISCO: Apple on Thursday said it \u200dhas acquired Q.ai, an Israeli startup working on artificial intelligence technology \u2060for audio. <\/p>\n<p>Q.ai&#8217;s founding team will join Apple, including CEO Aviad Maizels, who previously founded three-dimensional sensing firm PrimeSense and sold \u200cit to \u200cApple in 2013. The PrimeSense deal eventually helped Apple move away from \u200cfingerprint sensors on its iPhones and toward facial recognition technology.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SAN FRANCISCO: Apple on Thursday said it \u200dhas acquired Q.ai, an Israeli startup working on artificial intelligence technology \u2060for audio. Q.ai&#8217;s founding team will join Apple, including CEO Aviad Maizels, who previously founded three-dimensional sensing firm PrimeSense and sold \u200cit to \u200cApple in 2013. The PrimeSense deal eventually helped Apple move away from \u200cfingerprint sensors on its iPhones and toward facial recognition technology.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-988998","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/988998","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=988998"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/988998\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=988998"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=988998"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=988998"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}