WWDC: Latest updates for Apple and the business world

Confidential Cloud Computing

Delving deep into this subject here; corporate experts will need to assess the degree to which Apple’s delivery of its own server-based, highly confidential LLM support in the cloud renders the service appropriate for utilization throughout your organization, but the potential of building tools might encourage a shift to venture beyond that boundary. It’s worth noting that Apple now permits developers to utilize CoreML to execute LLM models trained using the most prevalent frameworks (such as Mistral) in their applications on an Apple device. While this aspect is not currently receiving much attention, it hints at new avenues through which corporate developers could potentially render their proprietary business data highly practical, all while upholding data security protocols.

I can’t shake the idea that Apple’s new cloud offering might evolve into a comprehensive private enterprise computation cloud.

Application Actions and Application Entities

Accessible on iOS, App Actions will enable developers to make specific content and functions within their applications accessible through Siri, Spotlight, Shortcuts, and Widgets. Coupled with Apple Intelligence, this implies that actions within your app could be suggested to users when they trigger pertinent requests via Siri, Shortcuts, or Spotlight. This is beneficial as it surfaces your application, showing promise in both business-to-consumer (B2C) and business-to-business (B2B) interactions. I believe this marks a significant stride toward transforming Siri into an agent-centric assistant capable of executing tasks over time, yet that narrative is for another occasion. Presently, Siri holds a more comprehensive and tightly integrated interface with your applications than it had previously.

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Andy Curtis is an award-winning security consultant, researcher and public speaker. He has been working in the computer security industry since the early 1990s, having been employed by state and federal government, leading healthcare and banking providers across three continents. He has given talks about computer security for some of the world’s largest companies, worked with law enforcement agencies on investigations into hacking groups, and is a regular voice on TV and radio explaining IT security threats.

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