Apple Is Killing Core ML — And 'Core AI' Tells You Everything About Where They're Headed
For years, Apple was the trillion-dollar company that couldn’t say “AI” out loud. While OpenAI, Google, and Anthropic sprinted toward frontier models, Apple clung to “machine learning” like a security blanket — a term that by 2025 felt about as current as “World Wide Web.” That era just ended. The Rebrand That Says Everything According to Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman, Apple will unveil Core AI at WWDC 2026 this June. It replaces Core ML, the machine learning framework that’s been powering on-device inference since 2017. Two letters change. The entire signal shifts. ...