Apple, long a company that takes pains to maintain secrecy on several key initiatives – including AI – is now ready to join the Partnership on AI, an artificial-intelligence group with members like Amazon, Facebook, Google, IBM, and Microsoft, per a Bloomberg report . The move is not surprising for the Partnership on AI, which has been an effort to get the large players in the tech space to – if not play nicely together – at least establish best practices and look closely at major findings during a time when machine learning and AI are making the kinds of leaps and bounds we used to associate with microprocessors.