Some developers feel ambivalent about the artificial-intelligence releases coming out of Apple’s annual developer gathering—a far cry from when WWDC was tech’s main event.

Apple on Monday remained on its cautious path to embracing generative AI even as rivals race ahead with the technology and Wall Street expresses doubts over its strategy.

Apple’s big developer summit is a Silicon Valley institution. The company has been hosting it every year since 1983, and in more recent years the events have become a fixture of the tech hype machine — a chance for Apple to show off its latest software to investors and the folks who build apps for those products.

Apple faced low expectations coming into its Worldwide Developers Conference this year. That it still failed to meet them says a lot about where the company is with artificial intelligence.

Apple's WWDC reveals new digital ID feature for iOS 26 allowing passport-based identification for TSA checkpoints and refreshed boarding passes.

Apple announced on Monday a slew of artificial intelligence features including opening up Apple Intelligence's underlying technology in a modest update of its software and services as it lays the groundwork for future advances.

This week will bring consumer-price index and producer-price index data from May, providing new readings on inflation and how prices have changed as a result of tariff policies. Meanwhile, Apple is ho