Inside the early 2025 senior exec meeting where Apple admitted its AI failures; Tim Cook became intimately involved in Apple's AI roadmap around the same time (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg)
THE SO WHAT
When a company at Apple’s scale convenes a top-secret meeting to admit AI failure and pull the CEO directly into roadmap, AI stops being a feature debate and becomes a core strategy reset. If your board hasn’t had its own version of that meeting yet, you’re probably still treating AI as incremental, not existential.
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