APPLE $AAPL HAD A SECRET CRISIS MEETING IN EARLY 2025 ABOUT AI The topic: Apple Intelligence was a flop. The new Siri was about to be delayed. And rivals like OpenAI, Google, and Meta were lapping them. Here's what came out of that meeting: John Giannandrea, Apple's AI chief, was stripped of his portfolio and pushed out. Mike Rockwell, the engineer behind Vision Pro, was handed Siri. A deal was struck with Google to replace the underlying Siri models with Gemini and Google Cloud. Tim Cook himself became more involved in AI than any other product initiative in a decade, personally voicing feature preferences and overriding his own lieutenants. This Monday at WWDC, the result of all of it goes public: a completely rebuilt Siri with a standalone ChatGPT-rival app. The new Siri is also one of Cook's final acts as CEO before John Ternus takes over (Source Bloomberg)