{"id":16783,"date":"2026-01-30T13:52:33","date_gmt":"2026-01-30T13:52:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/TheNextWeb=1415333"},"modified":"2026-01-30T13:52:33","modified_gmt":"2026-01-30T13:52:33","slug":"apple-buys-silent-speech-ai-startup-for-2b-because-talking-is-so-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.londonchiropracter.com\/?p=16783","title":{"rendered":"Apple buys \u201cSilent Speech\u201d AI startup for $2B, because talking is so 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/img-cdn.tnwcdn.com\/image?fit=796%2C417&#038;url=https%3A%2F%2Fcdn0.tnwcdn.com%2Fwp-content%2Fblogs.dir%2F1%2Ffiles%2F2026%2F01%2FTNW-Article-Banner-10-1.png&#038;signature=338348850b64fdcf6dfc2e3405df8882\" width=\"796\" height=\"417\"><br \/>Apple confirmed this week that it has acquired Israeli AI startup Q.ai in a deal valued at close to $2 billion, making it one of the company\u2019s largest acquisitions ever, second only to the $3 billion purchase of Beats in 2014.\u00a0 But check your assumptions: this isn\u2019t Beats 2.0. There\u2019s no new headphone brand to flex. Instead, Apple is paying top dollar for tech that might let your devices understand you without you ever saying a word. \u200b\u200bThese days we put our phones on silent so they won\u2019t disturb us; soon the phone will put us on silent so it&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thenextweb.com\/news\/apple-buys-silent-speech-ai-startup-for-2b-because-talking-is-so-2025?utm_source=social&#038;utm_medium=feed&#038;utm_campaign=profeed\">This story continues<\/a> at The Next Web<\/p>\n<p>Or just read more coverage about: <a href=\"https:\/\/thenextweb.com\/company\/apple\">Apple<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/thenextweb.com\/news\/apple-buys-silent-speech-ai-startup-for-2b-because-talking-is-so-2025\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Apple confirmed this week that it has acquired Israeli AI startup Q.ai in a deal valued at close to $2 billion, making it one of the company\u2019s largest acquisitions ever, second only&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":16784,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.londonchiropracter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16783"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.londonchiropracter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.londonchiropracter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.londonchiropracter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.londonchiropracter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16783"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.londonchiropracter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16783\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.londonchiropracter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/16784"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.londonchiropracter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16783"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.londonchiropracter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16783"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.londonchiropracter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16783"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}