by Jason Snell
Microsoft, Apple, and AI
Charles Stross writes a refreshingly skeptical column about AI hype, how Apple has been ahead of the game for a while now, and why Microsoft seems to be courting disaster by enabling its Recall feature:
Recall is already attracting the attention of data protection regulators; I suspect in its current form it’s going to be dead on arrival, and those CoPilot+ PCs due to launch on June 18th are going to get a hurried overhaul. It’s also going to be interesting to see what Apple does, or more importantly doesn’t announce at WWDC next week, which is being trailed as the year when Apple goes all-in on AI.
As I wrote recently, Apple has an opportunity at WWDC to announce AI features that are useful and measured and promote themselves as a responsible entity that’s not rushing headlong into the latest tech industry hype cycle. I hope they take it.