Apple is building scam detection into the operating system. With iOS 27, a new framework called Trust Insights watches for the behavioral fingerprints of a scam in progress, the odd timing and out-of-character payments that signal someone is being coached. It runs on-device, and…
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A Hopeful Word on the New Siri
I’m late linking this one, but it’s worth catching up on. Joanna Stern spent a week with the new Siri in iOS 27, and her verdict is that it’s very good. Her take matches mine. The new Siri pulls context from Messages, Calendar, and…
Continue reading →Why Local AI Is Apple’s Play
Right now, the frontier AI models are, at best, getting $200/month from AI consumers. And Sam Altman has said publicly that OpenAI loses money on every one of those subscriptions. The compute bills are just that large. Apple is doing something entirely different. At…
Continue reading →Cotypist Puts Smart Autocomplete Wherever You Type
This week MacSparky is sponsored by Cotypist. I’ve been writing with Cotypist for a couple of months now, and it’s become part of how I work on the Mac. So I’m glad to have Cotypist sponsoring MacSparky this week. Cotypist is autocomplete that follows…
Continue reading →The Robot Assistant Field Guide is Here
I spent the better part of a year experimenting with AI and coming away unimpressed. The chatbots were fine for generating a quick summary or answering a trivia question. But every time I tried to use them for real work, the same problem showed…
Continue reading →Donkey Work – What I Actually Want AI to Do
I’ve been using the term “donkey work” a lot lately, and some of you have been asking what I mean by it. Fair enough. Let me explain. When I started paying attention to AI, I realized pretty quickly that I didn’t want it writing…
Continue reading →A (Retired) Lawyer’s Take on Claude’s Legal Plugin
Anthropic recently released a legal plugin for Claude that handles contract review, NDA triage, and compliance workflows. The day it dropped, Thomson Reuters fell 16%, LegalZoom crashed 20%, and Wolters Kluwer lost 13%. Wall Street noticed. As a guy who spent 30 years practicing…
Continue reading →I Built the Perfect AI Robot. Then I Pulled the Plug.
I built the AI assistant I’ve always wanted. Then I shut it down. For the last few weeks, I’ve been experimenting with OpenClaw, an open source project that started as ClawdBot, then became MultBot, and now goes by OpenClaw (lawyers!). It’s essentially AI plumbing…
Continue reading →Claude’s Constitution
Anthropic published Claude’s Constitution. It’s 23,000 words defining the values and behavior of their AI. If you care about how these tools get shaped, it’s worth a read. When I built an experimental AI assistant project (originally Clawdbot, now OpenClaw), I spent a lot…
Continue reading →Claude Is My (Current) AI of Choice
I’ve been experimenting with AI tools for a while now, and I’ve settled on Claude as my primary assistant. After spending time with ChatGPT, Gemini, and others, Claude just feels right to me. What draws me to Claude is how the conversation flows. When…
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