There’s a reason why The X-Files never continued beyond its 2016 revival. Long-term fans didn’t take well to the reboot of the ‘90s classic, but producers at Fox knew what they had. The X-Files in its prime was the rare left-of-field procedural, one that would go on to inspire everything from Supernatural and True Detective to Breaking Bad and Homeland. It would also make the studio exorbitantly rich, so Fox was prepared to greenlight the series for another season, ratings be damned. It was Chris Carter, the creator and longtime steward of The X-Files, who put his foot down.

“I needed some time off,” Carter tells Inverse. “I wanted to go surfing.”

At 67, Carter has more than earned the right to a little introspection. The X-Files was an improbable phenomenon, one enjoyed by millions all over the world — but it was also a piece of Carter’s soul. For over 30 years he’s shared it with the world, and its legacy has followed him everywhere, even bleeding into some of his art.

The stakes for Apple’s Worldwide Developers Conference have never been higher. Well, at least not since last year, when the iPhone maker proposed the Apple Vision Pro as the next generation of computing. But the expected flavor of this year’s conference is different. It’s finally Apple’s turn to say something about artificial intelligence.

Apple likes to arrive at a new trend with the right ideas, not necessarily new ones, and thanks to reporting, there’s already some sense of what generative AI concepts the company could announce this summer. The uses and risks of AI have been bubbling in the background for the last few years, but this will be different. However it ultimately gets packaged, if it’s delivered in the right way, Apple could finally take the current wave of AI development truly mainstream.