AI tools billionaires that Tim Cook and Mark Cuban use every day: 'It’s changed my life’

Apple CEO Tim Cook and (right) entrepreneur and investor Mark Cuban. (Image credit: AFP)

The first thing that Apple CEO Tim Cook does when he wakes up between 4 am and 5 am is check his iPhone for new emails and overnight sales reports. But, for someone who receives more than 800 emails every day, checking them all, including feedback from Apple customers, is a daunting task.

That's why Cook relies on the tech giant's newest AI tool Apple Intelligence to give him summaries of all his emails, he told the Wall Street Journal Magazine recently. When turned on, Apple Intelligence users can see short summaries automatically appear under their emails in the Mail app.

“If I can save time here and there, it adds up to something significant across a day, a week, a month,” Cook told the publication.

The Apple boss added that it changed his productivity and daily habits. “It’s changed my life,” he shared. “It really has.”

Cook, however, is not the only billionaire who has harnessed the power of artificial intelligence to conquer a familiar pet peeve at work: a cluttered inbox.

Shark Tank judge and entrepreneur Mark Cuban also uses an AI tool to manage his emails. The 66-year-old  told CNBC Make It that he receives thousands of emails a day, “a lot of which are repetitive.” So, he uses Google’s generative AI assistant and its suggested email replies feature in Gmail, calling it the “ultimate time-savings hack.”

“It’s reduced the need for me to write out routine replies,” Cuban told the publication. “I can spend 30 seconds evaluating its response and hit ‘send’ versus typing it all out myself.”

He added that with AI managing his correspondence, he can spend more time on strategic tasks, helping him become more productive and an effective leader.