Before, if you had passwords labeled as compromised or weak in Apple Passwords, you had to click each one individually and go to the corresponding website to change them manually. Not a conducive workflow if you have hundreds with a red warning label. In iOS 27, available now as a developer beta, users can just […]
Ryan Christoffel for 9to5Mac: Siri in CarPlay is now much better at answering questions of any kind, similar to ChatGPT and Google Gemini. In my testing, it’s also able to retain the context of your current conversation better than ever before. Siri AI is the big announcement from this week's WWDC, and it's coming to […]
Craig Federighi had a line in the keynote that was doing a lot of work: “Other tech companies are racing forward, pursuing AI for the sake of AI, without clear regard for the people.” Whether you read that as a genuine philosophy or a positioning move against Google and Microsoft, it set the frame for […]
Mike, in his piece, Can we have the day off?: If AI is going to 10x our productivity across the board, that means that I should be able to produce the same amount of output by midday on Monday that, in the before times, would have taken all week. So can I just take Friday […]
Robert Hart, in his piece This AI Startup Will Clean Your Home for Free to Train Future Robots on The Verge: AI training startup Shift wants to clean your home for free. The catch — because, despite what its website says, there’s always a catch — is that it will record cleaners as they scrub, […]
Simon Willison, in his piece, I think Anthropic and OpenAI have found product-market fit: Companies spending $200+/month/user will get you there a whole lot faster—and as noted above, as a power-user I’m at ~$1,000/month in API costs per vendor already. Coding agents really did change everything. These are tools which burn vastly more tokens, but […]
Jake Orlowitz, in his piece Big Tech’s Anti-Labor Playbook Has Come for Wikipedia: The Wikimedia Foundation closed last fiscal year with $208.6 million in revenue. It holds $296.6 million in reserves, 17.1 months of operating expenses. The Wikimedia Endowment, a separate fund, sits on $169.4 million in net assets, up $25 million in a single year. […]