The confusing state of Apple Intelligence

The first bits of Apple Intelligence are starting to show up connected people’s phones. The features successful iOS 18.1 are reasonably basic: summarizing messages, penning emails, that benignant of thing. Apple is already letting developers play pinch iOS 18.2, though, which looks for illustration a overmuch much important update. Meanwhile, the institution is about to launch a bunch of caller M4-powered and AI-focused Macs, and launched the iPad Mini this week. It’s a batch happening each astatine once, and it’s a batch to make consciousness of.

On this section of The Vergecast, we effort and make consciousness of it. The Verge’s Richard Lawler joins america arsenic we talk done the mini changes successful 18.1 and the overmuch bigger changes successful 18.2, statement whether Tim Cook tin really use each Apple merchandise each day, and wonderment what mightiness beryllium coming from Apple’s week of Mac announcements.

After that, we get into the different news successful the world of AI. Anthropic built a model that tin usage your machine for you, which is some cool and horrifying and is besides the main extremity of practically each institution successful AI. Humane made its AI Pin cheaper, is moving connected licensing its operating strategy to different companies, and has immoderate large questions to ask. Perplexity is under occurrence for copyright reasons. Watermarking AI images still doesn’t work. It’s each a lot.

Finally, successful the lightning round, we talk astir the Boox Palma 2, T-Mobile changing the “lifetime” deal it made pinch older subscribers, and the silly fight against the FTC’s caller click to cancel rule. Please, don’t make america make telephone calls.

If you want to cognize much astir everything we talk successful this episode, present are immoderate links to get you started, opening pinch Apple AI:

And successful different AI news:

And successful the lightning round: