This Week in Apple: Don’t trust, definitely verify

It’s our last chance to read the tea leaves on Apple’s AI announcements next week, so let’s do this thing. Meanwhile, Apple bumps up production of the MacBook Neo and bumps down the number of Vision products it’s working on.

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With only a few more days to speculate, let us do just that. What else would we do? Just wait until Monday? Waiting to see what Apple announces is for suckers.

The big thing on everyone’s mind for WWDC26 is enhanced Siri and Apple’s ability to finally deliver on some of the bounced Apple Intelligence checks its mouth wrote two years ago. If we’re looking for clues, we can start by studying Google’s AI capabilities, since Apple’s upcoming offering will be based on Google’s technology. According to The Verge’s Jay Peters, it’s fairly good.

“Gemini’s new AI agent is about as good as Google’s demo”

Peters says that while it’s good, you still have to check everything it does, lest it send a party invite to, say, creepy Meredith from accounting.…