Apple Scales Back AI-Powered Health Coach Service
Apple Inc. is scaling back its AI-powered health coaching service, Bloomberg reported, cutting planned features and narrowing the initial launch to fitness and activity insights. The move reflects internal concerns about AI recommendation reliability, potential FDA medical-device classification, and privacy-compute limits in Apple Intelligence; it may delay a paid subscription launch and reshape services revenue expectations for the smartwatch ecosystem.
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