Is this Apple’s Answer to ChatGPT?

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Curious about the biggest AI moves today? You’re in the right place. In today’s edition, we have:

🤖 Apple’s “Veritas” Chatbot Fuels Siri’s AI Overhaul

🎬 Repurpose Long Videos into Short Social Clips with AI

⚠️ AI “Workslop” Is Quietly Taxing Teams

🔨Tools and Shifts you cannot miss

🤖 Apple’s “Veritas” Chatbot Fuels Siri’s AI Overhaul

Apple is quietly pressure-testing the future of Siri through an internal chatbot called Veritas. Designed as a ChatGPT-style app for employees only, Veritas aims to fast-track Apple’s long-overdue AI upgrades while the company wrestles with delays and a rapidly intensifying AI race.

The Shift:

1️⃣ Internal AI Sandbox - Veritas enables Apple staff to simulate natural conversations, experiment with in-app actions like photo editing, and refine personal-data search, all critical features planned for the next-gen Siri.

2️⃣ Technology & Timeline - The chatbot evaluates the new “Linwood” system, which integrates Apple’s proprietary models and third-party AI. Development setbacks have pushed Siri’s AI relaunch to March 2026, with internal reshuffles and talent exits reflecting the pressure.

3️⃣ Strategic Direction - Apple isn’t positioning Veritas as a public ChatGPT rival. Instead, the tested capabilities will quietly fold into Siri, and Apple may even rely on Google’s Gemini for AI-powered search.

This move signals Apple’s cautious but determined AI strategy: perfect core functionality before going public. For users and developers, it means a more capable Siri is coming, albeit later, while Apple sidesteps the crowded chatbot market to focus on seamless, device-integrated intelligence.

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🎬 Repurpose Long Videos into Short Social Clips with AI

Tired of spending hours trimming your footage for TikTok, Reels, or Shorts? Clips AI turns your long-form content into engaging bite-sized videos automatically. Here’s how to use it:

Step 1: Upload Your Video: Go to Clips AI and upload your long-form video. You can also paste a YouTube link directly.

Step 2: Set Your Preferences: Tell the AI what you want:

• Original language (for subtitles)

• Aspect ratio (portrait for TikTok, landscape for YouTube, etc.)

• Goals (viral clips, highlights, insights)

• Length of clips

• Optional: add a custom prompt like “extract the part where I talk about pricing.”

Step 3: Generate Clips: Click continue and let the AI work. You’ll get multiple ready-to-use clips. You can leave the tab, Clips will email you when they’re ready.

Step 4: Edit & Polish: Open any clip in the built-in editor to:

• Adjust subtitle style

• Add text, music, or effects

• Trim clips by editing the transcript (no messy timelines)

Step 5: Export & Share: Once happy, export your clips and post them directly to your social channels.

⚠️ AI “Workslop” Is Quietly Taxing Teams

A joint Stanford and BetterUp Labs study reveals that generative AI is creating a hidden productivity crisis. While AI adoption has surged, so has “workslop” polished but hollow AI outputs that shift real work downstream and undermine team collaboration.

The Shift:

1️⃣ Productivity Tax - 41% of surveyed employees reported receiving workslop recently. Each instance consumes 116 minutes to fix, adding up to an invisible $186 monthly loss per worker, and millions in annual costs for large organizations.

2️⃣ Sector Hotspots - About 15.4% of workplace content fits the workslop profile, hitting professional services and tech hardest, and circulating mostly peer-to-peer, with fewer cases from managers.

3️⃣ Collaboration Erosion  - Recipients often judge senders as less creative, reliable, or trustworthy, with 42% losing trust and many avoiding future collaboration, threatening long-term team dynamics.

Workslop is more than a nuisance, it’s a cultural and financial drain. Leaders must set clear AI-use guardrails and model thoughtful AI practices to prevent polished but empty outputs from eroding productivity and workplace trust.

🔨AI Tools for the Shift

🎶 FreeMusicGen  – Generate personalized music with lyrics or instrumentals powered by AI, instantly turning your ideas into full songs.

💊 Amino: Supplement Scanner – Scan, analyze, and track supplements for safety with this smart AI-powered scanner.

🕵️ Chrome Sidekick  – Unlock superpowers inside your browser with an AI agent that automates workflows, explains concepts, and extracts data.

🏥 Hathr AI – HIPAA-compliant AI tool powered by Claude that automates document summaries, creates analyses, and generates professional letters with government-grade security.

🤝 Nonverbia – Reads between the lines of every sales interaction, decoding nonverbal signals to uncover resistance and reveal deal-winning insights.

🚀Quick Shifts

📸 Windows 11 Insiders on Copilot Plus PCs will soon see their Photos app automatically sort screenshots, receipts, ID documents, and handwritten notes into dedicated folders, no manual tagging required.

🤖 Meta is investing billions in humanoid robots, says CTO Andrew Bosworth, emphasizing software over hardware. Its internal “Metabot” aims for dexterous manipulation, with plans to license robotics software to other manufacturers rather than mass-produce robots.

📊 Bain & Co. warns the AI sector must generate $2 trillion a year by 2030, over 5× the global subscription-software market, while profit plans still look like “build data centers profit.

🤖 YouTube Music is testing AI hosts that add stories, trivia, and live commentary to tracks, mirroring Spotify’s AI DJ. The experiment runs through YouTube Labs, with limited U.S. user access.

🤝 Yang Song has joined Meta’s Superintelligence Lab as research principal, working under fellow ex-OpenAI scientist Shengjia Zhao, another high-profile move in the AI talent wars.

That’s all for today’s edition. See you tomorrow as we track down and get you all that matters in the daily AI Shift!

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