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- Siri AI introduces a dedicated app with cross-device conversation sync and persistent chat history for the first time.
- Visual Intelligence expands to iPad, Mac, and Apple Vision Pro with screenshot-based search and Apple Pencil circle-to-search support.
- New Apple Intelligence APIs enable in-app actions across Messages, Music, Reminders, and Safari with contextual awareness of user activity.
- Image Playground and Image Wand offer generative image capabilities with photorealistic styles and sketch-to-image transformation in Notes.
- Developers can build Safari extensions that personalize website content, automate actions, and leverage new tab grouping and page monitoring APIs.
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> I feel like this is nothing more than Apple being angry that they have to allow people to actually choose what AI they want on their phone. It's really just Apple being angry about the EU's DMA endangering their golden goose (App Store revenue) and using any meaningful new functionality as a bargaining chip. They've done staggered geo launches for other features in the past many times, both before and after the DMA was passed, and in this case there's even another great reason to not want to…Read on HN ↗
Should you be able to use a Samsung SoC in an Apple phone? At some point this is just a debate about vertical integration. Apple can deliver better experiences with it, but of course it limits user choice. Many people want fully modular, open systems, which is lowest common denominator. I can see both sides of the argument, but I am so skeptical of regulators deciding what can be integrated or not. If modularity is better for consumers, why don’t they prefer modular systems? At the very leas…Read on HN ↗
My complaint is this image is supposed to tell the story of how this stuff is useful or new. Finding a message from earlier in the same day and then paraphrasing the message instead of just showing it isn’t useful or new. A simple keyword search uses infinitely fewer GPUs and finds me the info as fast without the risk of hallucinations or datacenter driven environmental collapse. But for whatever reason - because this stuff is mostly useless, because they’ve all got ai psychosis, or because of…Read on HN ↗
I would call those people uninformed. It's completely reasonable for Apple to be hesitant to roll out any new integration features within their own ecosystem in the EU. iPhone mirroring for example. Seems like practically 100% chance that if they put that out in the EU they'd be facing lawsuits for not making it work with every Android and Kindle and digital pregnancy test on the planet. And making it an open API right out of the gate is a much bigger undertaking than just making it work with y…Read on HN ↗