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Door is ajar for Rassie Erasmus’ side to surpass All Blacks when leading sides converge on Australia next year

The best sports teams constantly look to reinvent themselves. Their core principles remain in place but, crucially, they never, ever stand still. To do so is to risk slipping backwards relative to their competitors and arrive at the worst of all possible outcomes: a poorer, less successful version of themselves.

The ultimate example in rugby, until now, has probably been the All Blacks. For decades it was not only about winning the next game, but underlining their position, to quote one of their motivational whiteboard slogans from 2013, as “the most dominant team in the history of the world”. When you are chasing that kind of rarefied target you don’t allow the grass grow beneath your jandals.

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It’s fairly common for people to prefer and stick to a single operating system, despite its niggles, just so they can continue using specific features . But with an era where generational OS updates are so strongly centered around AI improvements, could we see a similar pattern? Unless you’re a supporter of the modern Luddite movement, you’ve probably already picked a favorite among the available AI chatbots. But is that enough for you to stick to — or switch — a certain phone or a platform?

That’s what we asked our readers in a recent poll we conducted while comparing the finally AI-fied Siri to Gemini . Even though Siri borrows its framework from Gemini, the results from both chatbots are starkly different. As my colleague Dhruv Bhutani found, Siri, even in beta, exceeds expectations for surfacing personal results from apps such as Messages and Mail, while also serving better for planning the day by pulling information from different third-party apps, including Gmail.