Apple CEO Tim Cook starts his day between 4 and 5 a.m. checking his iPhone for emails and nightly sales reports. Since he receives over 800 emails every day, including feedback from Apple customers, it's a challenge to keep track of them all.
To manage this, 64-year-old Cook uses Apple's latest AI tool, Apple Intelligence, which provides short summaries of his emails. This feature automatically generates short summaries under each email in the Mail app, streamlining its inbox. “If I can save time here and there, it adds up to a day, a week or a month,” Cook told the newspaper. Wall Street Journal magazineand added: “It changed my life. It really did.”
Mr. Cook isn't the only billionaire using AI to tackle an overcrowded inbox. Entrepreneur and Shark Tank judge Mark Cuban also relies on AI for email management. Mr. Cuban, who receives thousands of emails every day — many of them repetitive — uses Google's generative AI assistant and suggests responses in Gmail, calling it “the ultimate time-saving hack.”
“It has reduced the need for me to write out routine responses,” Cuban said CNBC Make it. “I can spend 30 seconds evaluating the response and hitting 'send' instead of typing it all out myself.” With AI handling his routine errands, Cuban says he can spend more time on strategic tasks, increasing his productivity and effectiveness as a leader.
“I will be using various generative AI tools to edit my children's homework assignments for spelling and grammar errors, which has helped me immensely as a parent,” he added. “And to make sure they don't use AI to write their papers.”
