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Apple Shipped an AI Assistant Nobody Can Actually Use Yet By Daniel Rao | October 24, 2026 Apple has finally built the AI assistant for its office apps that Google Workspace users have had for ages — and then, in the space of a single afternoon, it managed to un-launch it. Version 15.4.1 of Pages, Keynote and Numbers arrived on Thursday, October 22, 2026, carrying a brand-new beta feature called Intelligent Assistant. Within hours the three apps had vanished from the App Store entirely. When they came back, the version number had moved on, the assistant had not switched on for anyone, and Apple had said nothing at all. This is not a launch. It is a leak wearing a launch's clothes — and it is the clearest sign yet that Apple knows its productivity AI is behind, and is in too much of a hurry to admit it gracefully. We checked the same version trail across MacRumors, Macworld, 9to5Mac and Cult of Mac before writing this, because no single account of Thursday agrees with the others on ...

An Apple iMac G4 from 2002 — Bloomberg's Mark Gurman says the rumored HomePad smart-home hub could borrow its lamp-like design. File photo, not the rumored product. Photo: Maxime Bober, CC BY, via Wikimedia Commons. Apple sent out the most literal invitation in its history this week. "Welcome home." That's it. No poetry, no perfume-ad wordplay — just a doormat quote and a date: Tuesday, October 13, in New York City. Invitations went out Thursday, October 8, for what Apple is calling an "Apple Experience" in Tribeca, starting at 9 a.m. ET. Greg Joswiak, Apple's senior vice president of worldwide marketing, posted a teaser on X showing hands embroidering an Apple logo in thread, with the words: "Welcome home. October 13." The smart-home reboot Apple has been promising — and delaying — for years may finally be walking through the front door. The invitation Apple doesn't do many New York events. This one isn't at Apple Park; it...