Apple, bolstered by Google Gemini, adds new features to Siri and Apple Intelligence, ranging from AI slop pictures, deep fake camera framing, local picture scanning to tattle on you to law enforcement, oppressive controls for helicopter parents, and ads to haunt you. Also the last time Tim Cook shows up??
You know the world has turned upside down when Microsoft Build became the most interesting of the June Big Tech events! Mostly so Satya gets to beg people to pretty please let him build a data center. But at least Windows is getting better even if for the wrong reasons!
Probably the most meaningless Microsoft Ignite in recent memory, but it had the potential with those AI agents. Also a big load of nothing from the new Windows president.
The most militant Microsoft event ever with presenters getting heckled by mobs of protestors, layoffs looming, and new AI threats. Also probably the most censored Microsoft event in recent memory.
Over two weeks, Google drops a deluge of AI features we could care less about, making AI scraper agents, incorrect AI responses, and the legendarily laggy AR glasses. And Android exists.