Ask Siri needs to resolve ambiguities in queries without long explanations or clarifications. This explains the context it’s provided with, including text from the active window.
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Three challenging questions you might ask about using Macs, put to four different help systems, including the Tips app, fm, Ask Siri, and Google’s AI Overview. Some did surprisingly well.
If you’ve got an Apple silicon Mac running macOS 27, have some fun playing with on-device AI using the fm command tool. Free and completely private.
Full Disk Access gives apps and services access to all our most sensitive secrets. Should you grant that to AI agents such as those of Meta’s Muse app?
How an AIR reports proofreading, a Siri request about an image of a painting, and image generation in Image Playground, and the first release of AIRer to help you read your own reports.
Frustrated trying to read Apple Intelligence Reports? Try this new app that extracts their useful contents, converts dates, and lays them out to make them accessible and understandable.
How your Siri AI requests remain private even when processed off-device, by PCC. How a simple request becomes a long and elaborate prompt.
Take one Golden Gate VM, tweak its security settings, restart, agree to a long stream of licences, then devise a command to parse and export an attestation bundle and what do you get?
There are 3 sources of records of AI transactions, of which Apple Intelligence Reports are the most important and detailed. But can the user read their contents?
Golden Gate’s AI features go far beyond Visual Look Up and others. But do they use up too much disk space, and could there be a single switch to turn them all off?
