Apple says its AI is still private, even when it's running on Google's servers

Apple kicked off its annual developer conference with bold promises about AI. The company, CEO Tim Cook said, would be "introducing new technologies and innovations that push the limits on what's possible." But its slew of announcements - centered on a brand-new "Siri AI" - had more to do with catching up. After almost entirely neglecting Siri and punting its AI promises down the road in 2025, Apple went all in on the tech this year. It pitched Siri as an all-encompassing virtual assistant that ties together all your Apple devices, with multimodal features, a dedicated app, an all-in-one AI agent and more. Executives emphasized privacy aga … Read the full story at The Verge.

Google has agreed to pay SpaceX $920 million per month from October 2026 through June 2029 for access to approximately 110,000 Nvidia GPUs and related infrastructure, according to a regulatory filing. The deal mirrors the $1.25 billion monthly agreement SpaceX struck with Anthropic in May, though Google’s arrangement covers roughly half the compute capacity. Google […]

A regulatory dispute has indefinitely delayed the release of Siri AI.

Most of Apple's current AI ideas are roughly the same as everyone else's AI ideas. A chatbot you can ask questions; quick ways to create or summarize text; bizarre, borderline creepy image-generation tools. The company spent most of its WWDC keynote playing catch-up with the state of the AI art, announcing Siri features you can already find on Android phones and in the Claude and ChatGPT apps. The pitch, in so many cases, is just "this thing you know, but on your iPhone now." But a few minutes after I downloaded the first developer beta of iPadOS 26 (I didn't want to risk it on my Mac or my iPhone, both of which are too important to my dail … Read the full story at The Verge.

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Apple says its cloud processing is as private as on-device, despite expanding to run on Google’s servers. | Screenshot: Apple WWDC 2026 keynote As expected, yesterday's WWDC keynote was mostly about AI. And also as expected, Apple tried to turn its late arrival into its sales pitch: it didn't rush into AI because it was taking its time to do things right. In this case, "right" means "with more privacy than anyone else." It's a good pitch - the question will be how well it holds up. The new Apple Intelligence features and the updated Siri AI have been designed to work across iPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple Watch, and Vision Pro. There's a dedicated Siri AI app, with a ChatGPT-esque chatbot experience, new AI-powered camera and photo editing features, and the beginnings of an agentic exper … Read the full story at The Verge.

Apple's Siri AI overhaul aims to strengthen its ecosystem, but faces challenges from memory shortages and won't boost short-term sales. The post Apple’s revamped AI Siri seen as long-term strategy amid PC, mobile market challenges appeared first on Crypto Briefing.

Apple shares swung nearly 5% from their intraday high, erasing about $230 billion in market value, after the company’s long-awaited Siri AI overhaul drew a muted reaction from investors. A ‘Sell the News’ Moment for Apple’s AI Reset Apple used its Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) on June 8 to unveil its biggest artificial intelligence (AI) […]