Tuesday, June 9
Tuesday, June 9
Apple Finally Built the Siri Everyone Wanted, Then Told 450 Million EU Users They Can't Have It
Apple confirmed during today's WWDC keynote that the rebuilt Siri AI won't ship in the European Union or China at launch, citing the Digital Markets Act directly. The company says EU regulators "did not accept any of Apple's proposed solutions." On the same Monday morning Apple delivered its long-awaited AI credibility moment, powered by a ~1.2 trillion parameter Gemini model and a new multi-AI Extensions system opening the iPhone to Claude and others, 450 million EU users learned they'd be buying a materially different product. Same hardware, same price, different phone depending on your zip code. The regulatory picture gets worse from here.
Apple Finally Built the Siri Everyone Wanted, Then Told 450 Million EU Users They Can't Have It
Apple confirmed during today's WWDC keynote that the rebuilt Siri AI won't ship in the European Union or China at launch, citing the Digital Markets Act directly. The company says EU regulators "did not accept any of Apple's proposed solutions." On the same Monday morning Apple delivered its long-awaited AI credibility moment, powered by a ~1.2 trillion parameter Gemini model and a new multi-AI Extensions system opening the iPhone to Claude and others, 450 million EU users learned they'd be buying a materially different product. Same hardware, same price, different phone depending on your zip code. The regulatory picture gets worse from here.
AI Money, Models, and IPO Season
Happy Monday. Apple's WWDC keynote just landed and the headline is a rebuilt Siri running on Google's Gemini. A trillion-parameter model powering the assistant that still sometimes mishears your alarms.
- Apple is reportedly licensing Gemini for around $1B/year. A new multi-AI Extensions system means Claude, Gemini, and others plug directly into iPhone. OpenAI's exclusive era on iOS is over.
- EU users won't get Siri AI features at launch. Apple blamed the Digital Markets Act. Hundreds of millions of iPhones, identical hardware, no flagship feature.
- Intel Mac support officially dropped with macOS Golden Gate. If you're still holding on, today's the day to grieve.
Meanwhile the rest of the AI world didn't pause for the keynote. IPO season is heating up, compute deals are getting surreal, and the economics of all this are starting to look genuinely wobbly.
Happy Monday. Apple's WWDC keynote just landed and the headline is a rebuilt Siri running on Google's Gemini. A trillion-parameter model powering the assistant that still sometimes mishears your alarms.
- Apple is reportedly licensing Gemini for around $1B/year. A new multi-AI Extensions system means Claude, Gemini, and others plug directly into iPhone. OpenAI's exclusive era on iOS is over.
- EU users won't get Siri AI features at launch. Apple blamed the Digital Markets Act. Hundreds of millions of iPhones, identical hardware, no flagship feature.
- Intel Mac support officially dropped with macOS Golden Gate. If you're still holding on, today's the day to grieve.
Meanwhile the rest of the AI world didn't pause for the keynote. IPO season is heating up, compute deals are getting surreal, and the economics of all this are starting to look genuinely wobbly.
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