Today on the AI Daily Brief, how AI went right to the center of the U.S. economy, before

that in the headlines, can a pep talk from Tim Cook get Apple back on track?

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We kick off today with the latest in the Apple AI saga, where following

Thursday's earnings call, Apple CEO Tim Cook held a rare physical company-wide meeting.

Now, before the meeting, Cook had told investors that Apple sees AI as, quote, one of the most

profound technologies of our lifetime, and said that they would be, quote, significantly growing their investments to meet that moment. He said you can probably tell in the guidance that things are moving up. We're also reallocating a fair number of people to focus on AI features within the company. We have great team and we're putting all of our energy behind it. Following that, however, in the hour-long pep talk to staff, Cook said that AI was as big

or bigger, his words, than the internet cloud computing smartphones and apps. He added,

Apple must do this, Apple will do this. This is sort of ours to grab. We will make the investments

to do it. Now, Cook took his talking points from Apple Apologists out there. He said, for example, we've rarely been first. There was a PC before the Mac, there was a smartphone before the iPhone, there were many tablets before the iPad. There was an MP3 player before the iPod. However, he argued that Apple invented the quote-unquote modern versions of each of these product categories, and Cook said, this is how I feel about AI. For those of you

who at this point would be happy just with a better Siri, SVP of Software Engineering, Craig Federigi,

spoke directly to the Siri update, which has kind of become a bellwether for Apple's AI challenges.

He explained that the original failed plan was to add AI features alongside in hybrid architecture,

but said that, quote, we realized that approach wasn't

going to get us to Apple quality. The new plan is to start over with AI-first infrastructure.

Federigi said, the work we've done on this end-to-end revamp of Syria has given us the results we

needed. This has put us in a position to not just deliver what we announced, but to deliver a much

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