I tried Apple’s Siri Recaps. They’re surprisingly useful — and a little unsettling
THE SO WHAT
If Siri Recaps is already sticky despite privacy unease, ambient summarization is about to become a default behavior layer on phones. App builders should assume their content and notifications will be re-bundled by the OS—optimize for being summarized and queried, not just opened.
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