Steve Wozniak, a co-founder of Apple, is hospitalized after giving a speech at a conference in Mexico City, as claimed by multiple sources, including People.
According to a source who spoke to CNN En Español, the 73-year-old tech mogul passed out while attending the World Business Forum (WBF) in Mexico City on Wednesday, November 8. He was taken to the hospital at about 3:00 PM local time.
El Universal, a local news agency in Mexico, reportedly broke the news that Wozniak had an accident involving his cerebrovascular system (ischemia). Columbia University says this sub-type of stroke takes place when there is a restriction in the blood flow to the brain.
TMZ was informed by its sources that the business entrepreneur had finished his address at a business conference when he began "feeling strange." His wife later demanded that he go to the hospital. The news outlet said that Wozniak is now being evaluated in an emergency hospital while he is there.
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Creation of Apple by Wozniak and Jobs
Wozniak, who also has the nickname "Woz," established Apple in 1976 along with Steve Jobs. They are credited with developing the company's first computer, according to the information provided on Wozniak's website.
Apple has grown to become one of the largest firms in the world as a result of its continued success in developing ground-breaking products such as the iPhone and the iPad.
In 1985, former President Ronald Reagan presented Wozniak with the National Medal of Technology, the nation's highest honor for technological accomplishment. After designing the first personal computer on his own, he refocused his lifelong interest in mathematics and electronics on inspiring a love of learning in elementary school students and their teachers, earning him induction into the Inventors Hall of Fame and the Heinz Award for Technology and The Economy and Employment in the year 2000.
In March of this year, Wozniak put his name to a letter calling for a halt to the creation of artificial intelligence (AI) models. In the letter, Wozniak said that AI models are not yet ready for widespread usage. Elon Musk, creator of SpaceX and the owner of X (formerly Twitter), also put his signature on the letter.
"AI is so intelligent it's open to the bad players, the ones that want to trick you about who they are. I think the forces that drive for money usually win out, which is sort of sad," Wozniak said in a BBC interview in May.
Jobs passed away on October 5, 2011, from pancreatic cancer at the age of 56. In August 2011, Jobs handed over his responsibilities as Apple's chief executive to Tim Cook, who is now 62 years old and still holds that position.
