Welcome to the tech meme right home for Monday, June 9th, 2025. I'm Brian McCullough today. All the headlines from WWDC. Microsoft unveils the first iteration of that handheld gaming strategy we discussed. Meta is considering its largest external AI investment yet. And did Apple researchers reveal that large language models

have a structural ceiling and were basically there? Here's what you miss today in the world of tech.

So as I do every single year, I watched Apple's WWDC keynote so you don't have to.

Here's what happened.

The gag opening video was Craig Federigi driving an F1 car around a track that was the roof of Apple's world headquarters.

It was fine, obviously tied into that F1 movie with Brad Pitt that is apparently an Apple original coming out soon. After Tim Cook

said hi, it was Craig that was first up and in fact was leading most of this keynote talking Apple

intelligence. He spoke about what they've already released the writing tools, email summary,

Gen Moji, etc. When they go down the list like that, it kind of feels

like, yeah, they've already released a lot of AI stuff, but then you remember, I basically

never use slash notice that stuff. But then Craig said that the big thing they're doing this year

is what they're calling foundation models framework. Apple is opening up the foundational AI models that power Apple

intelligence for developers to use in their apps. Finally, the models run locally on device,

apparently, quote, we couldn't be more excited about how developers can build on Apple Intelligence,

Craig said. But that was it in terms of talking about AI specifically, as opposed to sprinkling AI in, among other innovations.

Almost immediately, it was on to the new OS Visual redesigns.

They say this is the biggest jump in design language since iOS 7.

The key thing is that the design language is moving across all their platforms, Mac, the watch, etc.

It's all going to look the same. They're calling it liquid glass, and it looks okay.

I'm not a designer. It looks nice, but to my eyes, it's basically exactly what I'm used to.

Again, to my dumb eyes, it looks more rounded corners, looks like translucent bubbles or, I guess, glass.

That's the point. Although, as I see more examples, is it a little too transparent? I don't know.

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