Read Online | Sign Up | Advertise | | | Good morning, AI enthusiasts. The rumors of Apple's AI "gap year" look to be true, kicking off WWDC 2025 with a keynote that did little to inspire confidence on the Apple Intelligence front. | With minor upgrades to its already lagging system, Apple's biggest showcase of the year was dressed up like a massive event — but felt strangely out of touch in an AI-obsessed world. | | In today's AI rundown: | Apple goes light on AI at WWDC Chinese AI giants freeze tools during national exams How to generate UI designs from text UK uses Gemini to fast-track infra planning 4 new AI tools & 4 job opportunities
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| | | | APPLE | |  | Image source: Apple |
| The Rundown: Apple just kicked off WWDC 2025, showcasing a variety of new design, naming, and customization upgrades across its OS and product lines — but was light on meaningful announcements regarding its lagging Apple Intelligence. | The details: | New Live Translation brings real-time language translation to Messages, FaceTime, and calls, with processing done locally on-device to maintain privacy. Visual intelligence now analyzes on-screen content, letting users search for similar products, ask ChatGPT questions about images, and more. The Shortcuts app gains AI-powered intelligent actions and the ability to use ChatGPT for automation processes. Apple opened access to its on-device model through a new developer framework, enabling apps to tap into Apple Intelligence without cloud API costs. "Workout Buddy" debuts on Apple Watch, using AI to generate personalized voice coaching during exercise based on real-time biometric data and history.
| Why it matters: While there were some AI-related upgrades, they feel more like an afterthought in the hyped event — which is jarring in a year where every company is going out of their way to push AI products. The reports of this being an AI "gap year" for Apple seem to be true, and the vibes certainly seem off from the usual trend setter. |
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| | AI, CHINA & EDUCATION | |  | Image source: o3 / The Rundown |
| The Rundown: Major Chinese tech companies temporarily blocked AI features during the country's gaokao university entrance exams, aiming to prevent cheating among the 13M+ test-taking students competing for limited university spots. | The details: | Students taking the exams found AI tools like ByteDance's Doubao, DeepSeek, and Qwen refusing to analyze exam-related images or answer test questions. Tencent's Yuanbao, Moonshot's Kimi, and other major Chinese AI platforms also suspended photo recognition features during exam hours from June 7-10. Users attempting to use the tools with exam-like content are met with messages about service suspension to ensure fairness during testing periods. Alongside the AI tool freeze, authorities are deploying other anti-cheating measures like AI-powered monitoring for suspicious behavior in exam halls.
| Why it matters: AI is causing chaos throughout the education system, with pre-ChatGPT testing methods and assignments proving no match for today's models — and educators having few ways to stop it. Schooling is in for a complete overhaul in the AI era, with some major bumps in the road along the way. |
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| | GOOGLE | |  | Image source: Google |
| The Rundown: The UK government and Google unveiled an AI tool named "Extract," which leverages the tech giant's Gemini AI to digitize millions of planning documents and speed up notoriously slow housing and infrastructure decisions. | The details: | Extract uses Gemini's multimodal capabilities to read, interpret, and convert planning files (including blurry maps and handwritten notes) into digital formats. Officials said the tool is capable of streamlining processes that would take a planning professional 2 hours into just 40 seconds. Extract is being trialed in several councils and slated for a nationwide rollout by Spring 2026, aiming to help meet ambitious 1.5M home-building targets. The government said the goal is to free up planners from the tedious manual checks, allowing them to focus on decision-making and reducing backlogs.
| Why it matters: Governments across the globe still rely on slow, outdated processes and crumbling physical documents — and Extract represents an amazing government use case for AI that can make a tangible difference for the public. Some of AI's biggest immediate wins may be in simply streamlining infrastructure, not reinventing the wheel. |
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| | | | | Meta is reportedly negotiating a massive $10B+ investment in AI data giant Scale AI, which would mark Meta's largest investment in the sector to date. | OpenAI reached $10B in annual recurring revenue, nearly doubling its numbers from last year — with projections of $125B in revenue by 2029. | Ohio State University is launching an AI Fluency Initiative to embed AI education in undergrad programs, with resources, courses, and support for faculty and students. | Sam Altman's Tools for Humanity is rolling out its proof of personhood eye-scanners to the UK, with 13M verified identities and 1,500 Orbs in circulation to date. | Meta AI chief scientist Yann LeCun took a shot at Dario Amodei on Threads, calling the Anthropic CEO a "deluded" AI doomer for his AGI work. | EleutherAI unveiled Common Pile v0.1, a massive 8TB open dataset of public domain and licensed text for training AI models. |
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