Your biggest questions from Apple's WWDC
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What were the highlights of Apple's WWDC announcements?
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How has Siri AI evolved in the latest updates?
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Welcome to the Vergecast, the flagship podcast of CornerRadii. I'm your friend David Pearce, and on today's show, we are going to answer a bunch of your questions about WWDC. WWDC, Apple's big developer conference, started on Monday. We got a lot of new announcements, lots of new stuff for all kinds of Apple devices, big new Siri AI, Apple intelligence. The phrase private cloud compute was used 450,000 times. You all had a lot of questions. We have lots of answers. Nilay Patel is going to join me from his hotel room somewhere in the Bay Area, and we're going to go through as many of your questions as we can. It's going to be great. But first, here is everything else happening on The Verge today. This is 90 Seconds on The Verge for Wednesday, June 10th, 2026.
What new features are coming to iOS 27?
Users are starting to get access to a new anthropic model called Claude Fable, a very good name for an AI model. It's based on the Mythos model that Anthropic previously said was too dangerous to release to the public. And now, basically two months, a bunch of hemming and hawing about security and one giant hack of mythos later, here we are. It's being released to the world. Anthropic says the model is particularly good at software engineering, knowledge work, and vision, which makes sense. Those are the three of the things that Anthropic is very focused on in enterprise AI, but it's also double the price of the company's other flagship model, Opus 4.8. Use those tokens wisely, my friends. Meanwhile, Xbox leaders have said that they're exploring radically different, that's a direct quote, radically different business models for the Xbox.
Basically, with RAM making everything so expensive, Microsoft seems worried that not everyone will be able to afford a console going forward, especially not the one we know of as Project Helix, which is apparently just a super high-end gaming PC. What are radically different business models? Maybe it'll be ads. Maybe it'll be even more focus on Game Pass and streaming on any kind of hardware. Maybe it'll be lots of companies making lots of different kinds of Xboxes. Right now, under new leader Asha Sharma, it seems nothing is off the table for Xbox. And finally, we have our first look at The Social Reckoning, the sequel to The Social Network, coming later this year. And more importantly, we got our first look at Jeremy Strong trying to look and sound like Mark Zuckerberg.
People around here understand that when I say no, that's the end of the debate. I'm not two years out of a dorm room anymore, Charlie. Look around. The Frances Haugen story is an important and big and fascinating one, but I'm not so sure about this movie, you guys. We'll see. You can read more about all of this at TheVerge.com. That's it. That's 90 Seconds on The Verge for Wednesday, June 10th.
All right, now let's get to your questions from WWDC. We had the live stream on Monday where we gave kind of our first thoughts on everything. It was pure chaos. But, Nilay, you are here. Welcome, Nilay Patel. What's up?
How is Apple addressing privacy concerns with AI?
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Chapters
8 chapters
1
What were the highlights of Apple's WWDC announcements?
0:01–0:52
2
How has Siri AI evolved in the latest updates?
0:52–1:51
3
What new features are coming to iOS 27?
1:51–3:53
4
How is Apple addressing privacy concerns with AI?
3:53–5:28
5
What is the significance of corner radii in Apple's design?
5:28–7:11
6
How does Apple's approach to hardware impact its software capabilities?
7:11–8:48
7
What is the future of the HomePod and Apple TV?
8:48–10:50
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How does Apple's AI strategy compare to competitors like Google?
10:50–40:15