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Joanna Stern, former Wall Street Journal tech columnist, tested Apple's rebuilt Siri in iOS 27 for one week and reports substantial improvements. The assistant now pulls context from Messages, Calendar, and voicemail to deliver personalized responses—though limitations remain in current beta.

Apple announced Siri AI integration with Google Gemini at its WWDC 2026 event at Apple Park. The update represents Apple's latest AI push, though regional restrictions reportedly limit availability for many users globally.

Apple detailed its third-generation Foundation Models family: five models including AFM 3 Core Advanced, a 20-billion-parameter on-device model that keeps most parameters in flash storage and loads only 1-4 billion at a time into memory. The models were custom-built with Google and trained on Google's TPUs.

Apple announced a redesigned Siri AI at WWDC 2026, powered by a custom Gemini-derived model from Google that runs on Apple's Private Cloud Compute infrastructure. The company also introduced Core AI, a new library that integrates with PyTorch to enable developers to deploy models on Apple hardware.

Apple announced it will waive cloud API fees for developers with fewer than 2 million first-time App Store downloads who use its Foundation Models running in Private Cloud Compute. The company also expanded its Foundation Models framework to include image input and support for server models from third-party cloud providers.

Apple announced Siri AI at WWDC 2026, revealing a "deep collaboration with Google" that leverages Gemini models for its next-generation Apple Intelligence features. The new Siri includes personal context understanding, app actions, on-screen awareness, and conversational capabilities previously absent from the original Siri.

Apple unveiled Siri AI at WWDC 2026, a rebuilt version of its assistant powered by Apple Intelligence and enhanced with Google Gemini. The company confirmed daily usage limits for features like image generation, with increased access requiring iCloud+ subscriptions. Siri AI won't launch in China and faces EU restrictions.

Apple announced a suite of Apple Intelligence updates across iOS apps, including cross-app context awareness that surfaces email details during phone calls, one-tap AI-powered password updates, and natural language Shortcuts creation. Safari gains AI-generated extensions, while Photos gets spatial reframing and improved object removal.

Apple announced three AI-powered photo editing tools for iOS 27: an upgraded Clean Up feature for object removal, Extend for generating content around image borders, and Reframe for changing photo angles. The features use a combination of on-device and cloud AI models, marking a shift from Apple's previous on-device-only approach.

Apple plans to significantly improve the visual quality of its on-device image generation models for Genmoji and Image Playground in iOS 27, according to Bloomberg's Mark Gurman. The update will also add support for third-party AI image generation models beyond OpenAI's ChatGPT.

Replit released its first iPhone app update in four months after resolving App Store review issues with Apple. The update brings Agent 4, the company's latest AI coding assistant, along with parallel agent support and cross-workspace project viewing.

Security researchers at Calif used Anthropic's Mythos Preview model to develop a working macOS kernel memory corruption exploit on M5 silicon in five days, bypassing Apple's Memory Integrity Enforcement (MIE) system. The exploit chain targets macOS 26.4.1 and escalates from unprivileged local user to root shell using two vulnerabilities and several techniques.

Google is rolling out Gemini-powered features across Android that enable the AI to understand screen context and complete multi-step tasks across apps, marking a shift from traditional assistant interactions to agentic capabilities. The updates will launch on Samsung Galaxy and Google Pixel phones this summer before expanding to watches, cars, and laptops.

Apple confirmed in January 2026 that Google's Gemini AI models will power new Siri features, ending speculation about the company's AI assistant strategy. The integration will bring personal intelligence features that pull information from Apple apps like Mail, Calendar, Photos, and Notes, along with task automation and improved voice input.

Apple released Xcode 26.5 with two new Coding Intelligence features: the ability to queue multiple messages to AI coding assistants without waiting for responses, and agent support for asking clarifying questions before executing tasks. The update builds on agentic coding capabilities introduced in Xcode 26.3, which allowed developers to integrate tools like OpenAI Codex and Anthropic's Claude directly into the IDE.

Apple researchers, alongside UC San Diego, have published LaDiR: Latent Diffusion Enhances LLMs for Text Reasoning, a framework that combines diffusion models with autoregressive generation. The system runs multiple reasoning paths in parallel during inference, each exploring different possibilities before generating a final answer.

Google Cloud CEO Thomas Kurian confirmed during the Cloud Next '26 keynote that Google is building Apple Foundation Models based on Gemini technology to power the next generation of Siri. Apple is expected to unveil the first features at WWDC 2026 on June 8, with release planned for iOS 27 in September 2026.

Apple will present nearly 60 research studies and technical demonstrations at the International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR) running April 23-27 in Rio de Janeiro. Demos include the SHARP model that reconstructs photorealistic 3D scenes from a single image in under one second, running on iPad Pro with M5 chip.

Apple has secured full access to Google's Gemini models within its data centers and is using knowledge distillation to generate training data for smaller, on-device AI models. The approach allows Apple to create lightweight versions that replicate Gemini's reasoning patterns while running directly on Apple devices, requiring significantly less processing power.

Apple researchers developed RubiCap, a framework for training dense image captioning models that achieve state-of-the-art results at 2B, 3B, and 7B parameter scales. The 7B model outperforms models up to 72 billion parameters on multiple benchmarks including CapArena and CaptionQA, while the 3B variant matches larger 32B models, suggesting efficient dense captioning doesn't require massive scale.

Perplexity announced Personal Computer today, a cloud-based AI agent that runs on a continuously operating Mac mini to merge local applications with Perplexity's AI capabilities. The system operates 24/7, accessible from any device, and maintains integration with users' files and applications through a secure local connection.

Apple has asked Google to set up servers specifically for hosting a new Gemini-powered version of Siri that meets Apple's privacy requirements, according to The Information. This represents a deeper infrastructure partnership beyond the January announcement that Google's Gemini models would power upgraded Siri features.

Apple Intelligence, which automatically summarizes notifications and messages on hundreds of millions of devices, systematically generates stereotyped and hallucinated content according to an independent AI Forensics investigation. The analysis of over 10,000 AI-generated summaries reveals bias baked into the feature that pushes problematic assumptions to users unprompted.