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Apple’s New AI Siri

David Pogue tested Apple’s new AI Siri 125 ways and found it remarkably capable. It searches personal data, controls apps, understands screens and cameras, handles complex commands, and could dramatically reduce app-switching, Googling, and everyday phone fumbling.

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The Question Nobody in AI Wants to Ask

Forty years in tech, some of it alongside John Sculley and David Hancock, taught me one pattern: computing always migrates from the rented mainframe to the desk you own. Free frontier models, memory-rich Macs, and a $69 cable are repeating it now. The AI scoreboard is wrong. Apple is quietly winning.

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Second Mouse AI: Apple's AI Strategy

Galloway explores how Apple’s approach to artificial intelligence, rebranded as "Apple Intelligence," emphasizes consumer-friendly design and seamless integration, contrasting the hype-driven AI narrative dominating tech giants.

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Apple Acquires Joby Aviation

Apple Inc. completed the transaction late Thursday night to acquire Joby Aviation, a California-based company developing an all-electric aircraft for commercial passenger service, in an all out cash purchase that is rumored to be over 92 billion dollars.

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