The 4th Apple Worldwide Developers Conference Live at Apple Park in Cupertino, California (April 9th – 10AM)

With the Developer Conferences out of the way, it is time for the Apple Worldwide Developers Conference. The company is going to announce new versions and numbers for its operating systems in a couple of months, as well as take another step in persuading people that it is a big player in the Artificial Intelligence industry.

Rumor has it we may also see a whole new product category from Apple, with a HomePad smart display possibly in the offering. Here is how to watch it live.

The keynote with all the major announcements will take about two hours on Monday, June 9th. The start is set to occur at 1PM, 10AM.

The keynote event is taking place in person at Apple Park in Cupertino, California but it will be streamed online too. You can watch the stream above, which is the easiest place for most people to do.

Apparently this year they’ll all make the jump to iOS 26, macOS 26, tvOS 26, and so on, unifying version numbers while tying them to the calendar year just after they release, which should help them sound sufficiently futuristic.

That will mean updated icons, menus, apps, windows, and system buttons across iPhones, Macs, and iPads, with a look that incorporates “light and transparency.” There will be more options on the pop out menus, as well as larger redesigns for the phone, camera and browser on the iPhones and iPad.

The Good, the Bad, the Ugly: Apple in the Early Stages of AI Personalization and AI Optimisation (Extended Abstract)

Apple has long been criticized for the shortcomings of Apple Intelligence and for falling behind competitors like OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google in the race to build generative AI apps and services. When it comes to power users exploring real- life benefits, Apple is rarely mentioned along with its competitors.

is The Verge’s head reporter for artificial intelligence. An AI beat reporter for more than five years, her work has also appeared in CNBC, MIT Technology Review, Wired UK, and other outlets.

There were a number of reasons for the company to stay out of personalization of its own personal digital assistant, called Siri. Apple has a marketing push, for example, it ran TV ads for a revised version of its voice activated assistant, that hasn’t arrived yet.

Apple intelligence has had a lot of fun with their stumbles in the last few months. The feature’s rocky debut included notification summaries so off the mark that the company disabled them for some app categories after the BBC reported the tool would conflate multiple headlines into inaccurate synopses.

On Monday, the company planned to roll out a wide swath of small, functional updates powered by Apple Intelligence that could help it catch up to competitors in terms of translation and search. Users can use Apple’s image playground to transform a friend’s photo into an oil painting, with the help of Openai’s technology. Apple gave developers access to the on-device large language model behind Apple Intelligence, and it also debuted live translation features that allow users to translate between languages in Messages, FaceTime, and phone calls.

Last June, during a live session after an Apple keynote, Federighi mentioned that he hopes Apple Intelligence will eventually allow users “to choose the models they want,” specifically name-dropping Gemini. One of Apple’s backend updates in February hinted at a Gemini integration, and in April, during Google’s search monopoly trial proceedings, CEO Sundar Pichai said the company plans to ink a deal with Apple by mid-2025, with a rollout by the end of this year. Everyone’s still waiting for that.