"This year's rally is coming even as the tech giant's efforts in the A.I. space fail to impress. Users are poking fun at Apple Intelligence's sometimes bizarre capabilities... like making poop hair on a face." — Melissa Lee

Read More Apple mystifies CNBC traders (video)

"Steve Jobs would come at a journalist like the rain in Buenaventura, aggressively pitching his message; Cook envelopes his interlocutors in a gentle mist and confides awed assessments of his company’s efforts."

Read More Tim Cook talks Apple Intelligence with Wired's Steven Levy