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June 11, 2024, 5:20 AM

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Brian Heater / TechCrunch:
Apple unveils Apple Intelligence for iOS, iPadOS, and macOS, with generative writing across apps, image generation, task orchestration, App Intents, and more  —  Apple Tuesday unveiled Apple Intelligence, its long awaited, ecosystem-wide push into generative AI.
Kyle Orland / Ars Technica:
Apple says its Private Cloud Compute for AI processing is built with custom Apple silicon, and independent experts can inspect the code that runs on its servers  —  And publicly reviewable server code means experts can “verify this privacy promise.”  —  With most large language models …
Simon Willison / Simon Willison's Weblog:
Thoughts on Apple Intelligence's ability to outsource compute to Apple's servers with cryptographic guarantees of privacy, prompt injection risks, and more  —  Today's WWDC keynote finally revealed Apple's new set of AI features.  The AI section (Apple are calling it Apple Intelligence) …
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Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
In posts that seem to misunderstand Apple's deal with OpenAI, Elon Musk threatens to ban Apple devices from his companies over Apple's ChatGPT integrations  —  Elon Musk is threatening to ban iPhones from all his companies over the newly announced OpenAI integrations Apple announced at WWDC 2024 on Monday.
Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch:
Apple plans to bring ChatGPT to Siri and its other apps later in 2024; users will be asked before questions are sent to ChatGPT and don't need an OpenAI account  —  Apple is bringing ChatGPT, its AI-powered chatbot experience, to Siri and other Apple apps, powered by OpenAI's GPT-4 and other generative AI models.
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Allison Johnson / The Verge:
Apple says Messages will support RCS in iOS 18, replacing SMS as the default communication protocol between Android and iOS devices, but gives few details  —  The long-awaited day is here: Apple has announced that its Messages app will support RCS in iOS 18.
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Wesley Yin-Poole / IGN:
Q&A with Phil Spencer on the Xbox Games Showcase 2024, studio closures and layoffs, multi-platform games, Game Pass, a possible Xbox handheld, and more  —  “I'm not really a regrets guy.”  —  Hot on the heels of Microsoft's Xbox Games Showcase, CEO Phil Spencer sat down with IGN's Ryan McCaffrey …
Benjamin Mayo / 9to5Mac:
Apple unveils visionOS 2, with a higher-res, ultra-wide Mac Virtual Display option later in 2024, regular photos gaining spatial depth, new gestures, and more  —  As part of its WWDC announcements, Apple unveiled visionOS 2, the first major software update for the Apple Vision Pro headset.
Victoria Song / The Verge:
Apple announces watchOS 11, adding a training mode that analyzes personal workout data, live activities, a new Vitals app, new safety features, and more  —  Apple just announced watchOS 11, the latest version of its smartwatch platform, at WWDC 2024.  Developers will be able to start tinkering …
Shirin Ghaffary / Bloomberg:
OpenAI hires Sarah Friar, the former CEO of Nextdoor, as its first CFO, and former Instagram and Twitter product chief Kevin Weil as its chief product officer  —  The artificial intelligence startup hired two execs with experience managing large social media platforms.

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