🍏 Apple WWDC 2025 - AI and More
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Year-based OS update: Apple unified all its platforms under new versioning (iOS 26, macOS 26 "Tahoe", etc.), debuting a sleek “Liquid Glass” aesthetic 🔗 Read more.
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Apple Intelligence expands: On-device foundation model SDK for third-party apps, real-time call/message translations, and creative tools like Genmoji and Image Playground 🔗 Read more.
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Siri still waiting: No major Siri upgrades until 2026, causing concern over Apple lagging behind AI leaders 🔗 Read more.
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Health & fitness AI: Apple Watch's new AI “Workout Buddy” helps personalize exercise and fitness goals 🔗 Read more.
🌐 Global AI Industry Shifts
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Mistral’s multilingual reasoning models mark a bold new step in open-source AI 🔗 Read more.
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Meta’s ‘superintelligence’ unit: Meta ramping up AI hiring, with elite compensation to push AGI boundaries 🔗 Read more.
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OpenAI milestones: $10B in ARR and a $6.5B acquisition of Jony Ive’s hardware startup, “io” 🔗 Read more.
🛠️ Infrastructure, Startups & Tools
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Krutrim’s ‘Kruti’ assistant: A proactive, agentic AI capable of acting on user instructions launches June 12 🔗 Read more.
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Drupal AI Initiative: Brings together 290+ AI modules into one project, boosting open-source content platforms 🔗 Read more.
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Amazon’s $20B AI infrastructure spend: Building massive new data center regions in Pennsylvania, North Carolina, and Taiwan 🔗 Read more.
🔍 Big Picture Recap
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Apple’s AI push remains incremental, polished UX upgrades but lacking the “wow” factor of competitors.
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Open-source leaders (like Mistral) are reshaping the AI race with multilingual and reasoning-first models.
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Cloud and compute infrastructure is booming, Amazon leads with unprecedented investment scale.
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Startups like Krutrim bring autonomous AI agents closer to mass adoption.