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My first 24 hours with Siri AI on the Mac

A MacBook Pro resting on a couch with Siri AI running on the macOS 27 Golden Gate developer beta.

I turned off Siri on the Mac years ago and never looked back. Similarly, I found Apple Intelligence so fruitless I never engage with it. But the new Siri AI coming to macOS 27 Golden Gate has at least got me slightly rethinking things.

I'm still early in testing Siri AI, as I've only had access to it in the macOS 27 developer beta for little more than 24 hours. It's also in an early preview state on the dev beta, so there should be lots of runway for improvements before it releases later this year. I don't even know if it's done indexing my files and folders on our review unit M5 MacBook Air and M5 Max MacBook Pro. Unlike on the iOS 27 dev …

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PhysCOS Activities at AAS 248, 14–15 June 2026

13 June 2026 at 01:30

PhysCOS Activities at AAS 248 – Sunday, 14 June & Monday, 15 June

Dear Physics of the Cosmos (PhysCOS) community members-

If you’re attending the American Astronomical Society’s 2026 Summer Meeting (AAS 248) in Pasadena CA, please join us for the following PhysCOS-organized activities (all times Pacific):

Monday 15 June

  • 10a – 11:30a, Conference Center 204: NASA’s Future Large Gamma Ray (FLAG) Mission Concepts Working Group

Additionally, the following activities may be of special interest to the PhysCOS community:

Sunday 14 June

  • 10a – 12n, Conference Center 102: High Energy Science Analysis with HEASARC Services
  • 2p – 4p, Conference Center 101: An Introduction to Fornax: Scalable Data and Compute for Scientific Analysis

Monday, 15 June

  • 12:45p ‑ 1:45p, Ballroom DE: NASA Update Town Hall
  • 2p – 3:30p, Conference Center 211: HEAD: NuSTAR and the future of hard X-ray observations
  • 2p – 3:30p, Ballroom F: Gamma-ray Astrophysics from Fermi to the Future
  • 6:15p – 8:15p, Conference Center 106: NSF NOIRLab Open House

And please drop by the PhysCOS table in the Exhibit Hall!

For more information on PhysCOS throughout the meeting, check out our meeting webpage.

Wishing you the best,

Dr Francesca Civano & Dr Brian Humensky
PhysCOS Chief Scientists, NASA GSFC

Dr Bernard Kelly
PhysCOS Support Scientist, NASA GSFC

American Astronomical Society

The 248th Meeting of the AAS

The 248th AAS meeting (joint with the High Energy Astrophysics and the Laboratory Astrophysics Divisions) will be held 14-18 June 2026 in Pasadena, California.

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