Apple’s AI Whisper While the World Shouts

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Not So Artificial Newsletter
June 10, 2025

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👋 Good morning, future-thinkers!

WWDC just dropped, the UK is digitizing ancient planning docs, and Apple… kinda whispered about AI while everyone else is shouting.

Plus, Meta might be throwing billions at Scale AI, and Sam Altman wants to scan your eyeballs in the UK.
Let’s dive in 👇

🍏 Apple’s WWDC skips the AI fireworks

Small AI wins, but the real show never showed up

Apple kicked off WWDC 2025 with sleek design upgrades and customization features — but left AI fans underwhelmed.

The scoop:

  • Live Translation lands on iMessage, FaceTime, and calls, done locally on-device (translation, but private).

  • Visual intelligence can now scan your screen and identify objects or let you query ChatGPT about images.

  • The Shortcuts app gains AI-powered actions and can now leverage ChatGPT for automation flows.

  • Developers get access to Apple’s on-device model via a new framework — no more costly cloud API calls.

  • Workout Buddy arrives on Apple Watch, giving real-time, AI-driven fitness coaching tailored to your body.

Why it matters:
Sure, there are new AI toys. But this felt more like a side quest than a main event. While every other tech giant is firing on all AI cylinders, Apple seems to be playing catch-up — and this WWDC confirmed 2025 might be a “gap year” for Apple Intelligence.

🏗️ UK deploys Gemini to fast-track planning

AI speeds up 2-hour government tasks to 40 seconds

The UK is teaming up with Google to transform its sluggish planning approval system using an AI tool called Extract — powered by Gemini’s multimodal muscle.

The scoop:

  • Extract reads and digitizes millions of planning docs (yes, even scribbled maps and scanned PDFs).

  • A task that takes a human 2 hours now takes Extract just 40 seconds.

  • Several councils are trialing it now — with full rollout planned for Spring 2026.

  • It’s part of the UK’s mission to hit a 1.5 million new homes target.

Why it matters:
Planning and permitting are broken in most of the world — and Extract shows how AI can modernize bureaucracy overnight. Forget flying cars — streamlining infrastructure might be the real AI revolution.

🗞 Other News

Your AI roundup in 60 seconds or less 🌀

📦 Meta may pour $10B+ into Scale AI — It’s reportedly negotiating a mega-investment in the data annotation giant, which would be Meta’s largest AI play to date.

💰 OpenAI hits $10B ARR — Doubling from last year. The Sam Altman-led firm is now projecting $125B in revenue by 2029. Print that money.

🔥 LeCun vs Amodei on Threads — Meta’s AI chief scientist called Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei a “deluded AI doomer.” The AI drama is getting spicy.

🎓 Ohio State’s AI Fluency push — A new initiative will embed AI across undergrad courses, training both faculty and students in AI literacy.

👁️ Orb invasion expands — Sam Altman’s Tools for Humanity has launched its iris-scanning Orbs in the UK. Over 13M people have already been scanned worldwide.

💻 Mastery tools of the day

  • Portraits - AI coaching from trusted experts, by Google Labs

  • Circuit Tracing - Anthropic's open source tools to see how AI thinks

  • Manus Slides - Create tailored slide decks with agentic AI

💡What else are we reading and seeing?

  • LLMs are cheap

  • One Man Armies

  • Silicon Valley's quest to remove friction from our lives

  • XRobotics' countertop robots are cooking up 25,000 pizzas a month

  • Apple Announces Foundation Models Framework for Developers to Leverage AI

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🧠 That’s a wrap!

Apple might be moving slow, but the rest of the AI world isn’t waiting around. Whether it’s smarter cities or eyeball-scanning IDs, AI continues to infiltrate everything.

Thanks for reading Not So Artificial — your daily download of everything at the edge of AI.

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