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Apple Intelligence

Last Week on My Mac: The AI on the AIRer is drying

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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.

October 4, 2026 Macs, Technology, Updates

Browse Apple Intelligence Reports with AIRer, a new app

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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.

October 1, 2026 Macs, Technology

AI at work: Privacy, PCC and prompts

How your Siri AI requests remain private even when processed off-device, by PCC. How a simple request becomes a long and elaborate prompt.

September 26, 2026 Macs, Technology

Deep-reading an Apple Intelligence Report with pccvre

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?

September 24, 2026 Macs, Technology

Read an Apple Intelligence Report

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?

September 22, 2026 Macs, Technology

Last Week on My Mac: Is AI worth 30 GB?

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?

September 20, 2026 Macs, Technology

What’s going on with AI in Sequoia?

How we have gone from spell-checking, through optical character recognition, to Sequoia’s new Writing Tools that can proofread and summarise text.

June 13, 2024 Macs, Technology

First details of macOS 15 Sequoia

Which Macs will run Sequoia, and which are stuck on older macOS? Are there any new emoji, and what about ChatGPT?

June 11, 2024 Macs, Technology
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