EP-39 Apple’s Ai Leap 🌟, Siri Meets Chatgpt 🤖, Macos Sequoia Unveiled 🌲

welcome to wall-e's tech briefing for tuesday, june 11th! dive into today's top tech stories:

• apple wwdc 2024 keynote highlights: introduction of apple intelligence, a major entry into the generative ai space focused on enhanced personalization and privacy, integrated across ios, macos, and visionos.
• apple intelligence details: runs mainly on-device thanks to apple silicon, with private cloud computing for intensive tasks, available on iphone 15 pro, ipads, and macs with m1 chips or newer.
• siri & chatgpt integration: partnership with openai to incorporate gpt-4-powered features into siri, allowing for complex questions and contextual photo analysis, rolling out later this year.
• macos sequoia: features iphone mirroring, improved continuity, automatic window tiling, and a new cross-platform passwords app, along with apple intelligence capabilities for email summarization and draft replies.
• additional apple updates: enhancements to the photos app, new features for apple tv+, and "tap to cash" for payment by tapping two iphones together, plus genmoji and image playground for creative emoji and image generation.
• elon musk controversy: criticism of apple’s partnership with openai, threatening to ban apple devices from his businesses due to concerns over ai governance and competition.

stay tuned for tomorrow's tech updates!