Privacy Is Priced, Not Principled

Part of the ongoing Big Tech's War on Users series. AppleInsider had a story yesterday that's getting covered as a flex: Apple trained its own LLM for China instead of just using Google Gemini like it does everywhere else. Proprietary model, Alibaba's help behind the scenes, first company to launch a homegrown AI model in the country. Neat, right? Apple doing its own thing again. Except that's not…