iPhone, meet AI

Meta scales up

June 11, 2025

Welcome back, everyone! Starling Bank just launched a new AI feature that breaks down your spending habits in brutal detail. For example, it can tell you how much you spent at McDonald’s last month. And whether that number makes you laugh or cry, one thing’s clear: AI is inching closer to our wallets, calendars, and decisions. 

What part of your life could use an AI upgrade?

And real quick: OpenAI’s 400 million ChatGPT users reported “elevated error rates” worldwide earlier this week…and the outage lifted the curtain on just how many people are using AI at work.

So my question for you: Are you one of them?

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Everything Apple didn’t say out loud

Tim Cook at Apple WWDC 2025, USA Today

Apple’s WWDC 2025 was a firehose of product news, from AI integrations to spatial widgets. But let’s talk about what it all really meant.

Apple's AI assistant is now a system feature. Re-meet Apple Intelligence: a system-wide AI that summarizes text messages, suggests edits, and helps with everyday tasks. Siri got a glow-up too, with ChatGPT-style responses built in. Apple even brought back its search feature Spotlight.

Here’s what happened:

  • Siri can now use ChatGPT (with permission).

  • Notes finally arrived on Apple Watch.

  • iOS 26 and macOS Sequoia introduced deeper AI suggestions and new system commands.

  • Apple "Sherlocked" popular tools like Riverside, Flighty, and Alex for Xcode—by baking similar features right into its OS.

The bigger picture: Instead of creating the next GPT, Apple is integrating what's already here, elegantly and slowly turning your iPhone into an ambient AI assistant that doesn’t need to shout to be smart.

Meta wants Scale

Meta is considering a multi-billion-dollar investment in Scale AI, according to Bloomberg. The potential deal, which could be valued as high as $15 billion, would be one of the largest external AI bets in Silicon Valley to date.

Backstory: Scale AI specializes in data labeling and model evaluation. It powers the backbones of models from OpenAI, Cohere, and yes, Meta itself. Meta has already spent big on compute and talent, partnering with chipmakers, and building Llama models. Now? It’s ready to pay for the plumbing.

Why it matters: While OpenAI builds in-house and Anthropic crafts its models top-down, Meta is carving a new path—outsource the infrastructure, own the distribution. This move reflects a brutal truth in today’s AI race: If you can’t build it, buy it (fast).

ChatGPT just got more human

OpenAI rolled out major updates to its Voice Mode, giving ChatGPT smoother, more natural speech—with human-like intonation and real-time translation.

What’s new:

  • Responses now sound more conversational, with improved pacing and tone.

  • ChatGPT can translate between languages mid-conversation.

  • The feature is rolling out gradually across mobile, with broader access expected soon.

Zoom out: From eerily human voices to hyperreal avatars, the line between assistant and companion is blurring.

How Playrix increased developer productivity and code quality with AI-powered Code Reviews

Learn how Korbit AI enabled one of the world’s top gaming companies to accelerate engineering velocity and improve code quality.

Join this panel of Software Engineers & SaaS experts to learn:

  1. The challenges that stem from using manual code review processes or the wrong AI tools

  2. Why AI-powered code review is crucial for improving code quality, reducing reviewer fatigue and maintaining company standards.

  3. How Korbit accelerates the SDLC process for hundreds of enterprises with instant, AI-powered code reviews and powerful insights into the codebase, projects and team.

Your second brain, visualized

Mindly

Mindly helps you organize notes, articles, and ideas automatically, then draws connections between them in a visual web.

How you can use it:

  • Map research ideas and see what connects

  • Instantly summarize saved web pages

  • Replace chaotic Notion folders with clear visual structure

Pricing: Free with limited features; premium starts at €7.99/month

Turn text into pro-level audio

Wondercraft

Wondercraft is an AI audio studio that lets you create podcasts, ads, or audiobooks using synthetic voices. 

How you can use it:

  • Convert blog posts into narrated episodes

  • Generate ad voiceovers with custom tone

  • Build audiobooks with multitrack editing

Pricing: Starts at $25/month

Jobs, news, announcements, and big ideas

  • Anthropic shut down its experimental AI-generated blog just days after launching it.

  • ChatGPT’s outage yesterday caused lots of panic.

  • Getty Images says its UK copyright lawsuit against Stability AI won’t threaten the broader generative AI industry.

  • Tesla lost its head of robotics, who led the company’s humanoid robot efforts.

  • Nvidia gets ready to build its first industrial AI cloud in Germany

  • Veo 3 just launched a faster version that delivers over twice the speed in GeminiApp and Flow.

  • China suspended AI chatbots nationwide during its college entrance exams.

This AI agent hit 99% accuracy. Should we worry? I break down what’s real and what’s hype in the latest AI news.

That’s a wrap! See you Friday.

—Matt (FutureTools.io)

P.S. This newsletter is 100% written by a human. Okay, maybe 96%.