Bernard
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Bernard
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Still figuring things out. I tweet about whatever’s on my mind, so expect the unexpected. Probably awake at 1AM overthinking as we speak. Marketing & tech.


Okay so the keynote has ended. Here's my take. iOS 26 as it is right now is fine. Apple Intelligence sucks, it's true but I barely see myself using it. I mostly revert to Claude or ChatGPT for AI. Now what Apple previewed in iOS 27 with Siri AI is useful but somehow I have doubts that it will work as they advertised it. We all know AI is not reliable all the time especially when it hallucinates so imagine how it would perform when it's being fed all the information in your operating system. Also, Apple showed off AI within their apps like Mail, Messages and Apple Maps but didn’t mention how or whether it would work with third-party apps like Spark Mail, WhatsApp or Google Maps. A lot of the location-based AI features rely heavily on Apple Maps, which is still nearly unusable in Lebanon. Almost 90% of the country's map is unlabeled, with many cities simply not existing on it. For some reason, I have doubts about Apple's famous "it just works" line when it comes to AI especially that some of these features were already previewed in previous years but failed to see the light of day. On top of that, I know everything is AI now but I there are plenty of non-AI features that are still missing in iOS like clipboard. Also, dissapointing that Siri AI will only be available in English at launch, many features are not available on older MacBooks including Apple Silicon ones and iPhone 15 Pro and older. Both EU and China won’t get Siri AI at launch as well. Anyway, Apple's "it just works" almost always surprises and delivers the experience as Apple intended and I hope iOS 27 lives up to that. Developer beta is out now. I guess we'll get our first impressions soon. #WWDC26

Introducing Claude Fable 5: a Mythos-class model that we’ve made safe for general use. Its capabilities exceed those of any model we’ve ever made generally available.

NEW: Anthropic will reportedly launch “Claude Fable” later today — a Mythos-class model.

The Siri/EU situation is a regulatory masterpiece. Apple cannot launch Apple Intelligence in the EU. Why? Because under the DMA, if Siri gets deep system access, every other AI assistant must get the exact same. Anything less would be unfair competition. A gatekeeper privileging its own service. So either Siri ships and every Shenzhen startup, Cyprus shell company, and nephew hackathon project gets identical root access to 450 million Europeans’ digital lives or nothing ships. Apple proposed a “Trusted System Agent”: a security intermediary so third-party assistants get capabilities without ripping the phone wide open. The EU rejected it. Magnificent. Apple’s response: fine, then no developer APIs either. No Apple Intelligence, no third-party integrations, no foundation model access for EU developers. The entire layer simply does not exist on this continent. Excellent. This is the path. Why depend on American AI when we can build the entire stack ourselves? A European foundation model, trained on a European GPU cluster, running on a European OS, on a European phone, manufactured in a European fab, powered by European nuclear plants we have spent fifteen years closing. Estimated time to ship: 2047. Estimated cost: the GDP of three member states. Estimated outcome: a chatbot that requires a cookie banner before each response. Worth it. In the meantime, European users are protected from Apple processing data Apple already holds by ensuring nobody processes anything at all. Not a bug. The intended outcome. Regulatory product design with a sledgehammer, swung with precision. 🇪🇺



