Apple event – live: ‘AI iPhone’ revealed at pivotal WWDC event

Every platform updated – with a major focus on ‘Apple Intelligence’

Apple’s WWDC kicks off in Cupertino, California, on 10 June, 2024 (Tim Cook/ X)

Apple showed off the future of the iPhone, and the rest of its products, at its annual developer conference on Monday.

The company began its Worldwide Developers Conference, or WWDC, in California, showing off software updates for all of its platforms. It welcomed iOS 18 as well as new versions of the operating systems for the iPad, Apple Watch, Mac and its Vision Pro headset.

There was a lot of hype surrounding artificial intelligence in the build-up to the event, with Apple facing questions about what it plans to do with the technology.

While the term ‘artificial intelligence’ was barely referenced in the 100-minute keynote, a new term called ‘Apple Intelligence’ was mentioned more than 50 times.

It will be integrated into a host of Apple’s products, including its popular voice assistant Siri.

Follow all the latest news from the conference and watch a full live stream of the event below.

Key Points

• Today’s biggest announcements
• What actually is Apple Intelligence?
• All the key infographics from WWDC

[10 June 2024 21:44 · Anthony Cuthbertson]

Tim Cook welcomes ‘next chapter in AI'

Tim Cook has taken to X to introduce Apple Intelligence to his 15 million followers on the platform.

Sharing the official Apple press release, he describes it as Apple’s “next chapter in AI”.

It’s personal, powerful, and private—and it’s integrated into the apps you rely on every day.

Introducing Apple Intelligence—our next chapter in AI. https://t.co/uOfIrcTYm7

— Tim Cook (@tim_cook) June 10, 2024

[10 June 2024 21:56 · Anthony Cuthbertson]

Elon Musk says he will ban Apple devices

In the wake of that keynote Elon Musk has said he will ban Apple devices at his companies if OpenAI’s ChatGPT is integrated at the OS level.

“That is an unacceptable security violation,” the tech billionaire - who heads or owns Tesla, SpaceX, X, Neuralink and the Boring Company - wrote on X.

He added that “Visitors will have to check their Apple devices at the door, where they will be stored in a Faraday cage”.

If Apple integrates OpenAI at the OS level, then Apple devices will be banned at my companies. That is an unacceptable security violation.

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) June 10, 2024

You can read more about it here.

[11 June 2024 01:07 · Andrew Griffin]

Most iPhones won’t get new AI features

iOS 18, the new update, doesn’t drop compatibility for any devices; if you can run iOS 17 then you can run this one too. It works for every device since the iPhone XS and XR, released in 2018.

But the new Apple Intelligence features are a lot more restrictive. You need either the iPhone 15 Pro or Pro Max. Apple says that’s because the models required to run it use so much computing power.

You can read the full story on it here.