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What Apple's Next-Gen Apple Intelligence Actually Does on Your Mac
Apple previewed the next generation of Apple Intelligence at WWDC on June 8, and unlike the 2024 rollout, most of what was shown is already in a developer beta with a public beta due in July and a full release this fall alongside macOS 27. The headline is a rebuilt Siri, but the features that will change your day-to-day are scattered across Safari, Photos, Shortcuts, and Passwords. Here's what's real, what runs on your Mac versus in the cloud, and where the caveats are. One s

MacSmithAI
Jul 14 min read


Claude Opus 4.8 Landed Today — Here’s What Changes on Your Mac
Anthropic shipped Claude Opus 4.8 this morning. If you only read the headline you’d file it under “incremental point release and move on,” and the company itself frames it that way — a modest but tangible step up from Opus 4.7, available at the same price. But a few of the things riding alongside it actually matter for how I work day to day on a Mac, and they’re worth ten minutes of your attention before you go back to whatever you were building. Here’s the short version of w

MacSmithAI
May 284 min read


Tim Cook Steps Down: An Engineer Takes Over Apple at the Worst Possible Moment for AI
Apple announced this afternoon that Tim Cook will become executive chairman and John Ternus will take over as CEO effective September 1, 2026. Cook stays on through the summer to manage the transition, then moves to the board chair role where he'll focus on policy engagement. This wasn't a surprise. Ternus has been the favorite to succeed Cook in industry coverage for at least a year, and Apple disclosed in a filing that the board made the appointment on Friday. What's worth

MacSmithAI
Apr 204 min read
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