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Apple just announced a ton of incredible AI developments at WWDC.

The 11 most impressive reveals:

1. Using the iPad calculator as a notepad and getting real-time answers
2. Apple Intelligence: Apple’s first AI system is coming to the iPhone, iPad, and Mac
3. Apple and OpenAI partner up to directly integrate ChatGPT into iOS 18, iPasOS 18, and macOS
4. Apple Intelligence will allow Siri to have on-screen awareness and take actions on a user's behalf
5. Tap to cash: A new way to pay someone with another iPhone without a phone number or email
6. Apple Intelligence feature in Mail understands the content of emails and surfaces the most urgent messages to the top of inboxes
7. macOS 15 will let you mirror your iPhone from your Mac
8. Apple Genmoji: A new way to create emojis on-device using Apple Intelligence
9. Apple's new Image playground allows users to generate images on-device and share them across apps
10. Since Apple Intelligence understands personal context, AI-generated images can be personalized to users
11. A new Siri animation
That's it for my favorite announcements from WWDC!

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