I got beta access to the new Siri AI and the first thing I asked was, “Can you check the weather for where I’ll be this weekend?”. I’m going on vacation. I never told Siri that. It read my calendar, figured out I’d be…
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Apple’s Hardware Is Waiting on Siri
It used to mean something specific when an Apple product went out of stock. The old machine sold out right before the new one showed up. Now things go out of stock because Apple can’t get the chips, or because they’re holding back for…
Continue reading →Good Grief!, Siri.
Bloomberg reports that the new Gemini-powered Siri features planned for iOS 26.4 are being pushed back. Some to iOS 26.5 in May. Some to iOS 27 in September. Have you ever felt like Charlie Brown running to kick the football, only to notice, at the…
Continue reading →This Is the Year Apple Has to Deliver on Siri
Mark Gurman delivered more Siri news this week, and I’m left with the same feeling I’ve had for over a year now: equal parts hope and frustration. Here’s the picture as it currently stands. Apple is planning two separate Siri overhauls, releasing months apart.…
Continue reading →Gemini and Siri
We’ve now got official confirmation that Apple and Google are working together on what I’ve been calling the “Siri brain transplant.” Instead of an Apple LLM technology, it appears they’ll be using some version of Gemini. There are many unanswered questions here. For instance,…
Continue reading →The Hypothetical Siri Brain Transplant
We’ve been hearing for a few weeks now that Apple is considering using a third party LLM for Siri, particularly Claude. I understand this is not usually the Apple way of solving a problem like this, but at least for the short term, it seems…
Continue reading →Perplexity Moves into Mobile
News broke this week that Perplexity AI is in talks to integrate its assistant directly into Samsung and Motorola phones. What’s especially interesting here is how this upends the usual Android assistant narrative. Google has been baking Gemini into Android with increasing urgency, and…
Continue reading →Apple’s AI Woes
For years now I’ve been writing and talking about the trouble with Siri. This problem became even more acute for Apple with the rise of large language models (LLMs) and the world’s collective realization at just how useful a smart artificial intelligence can be.…
Continue reading →Will Siri Ever Get Smart?
It is worth noting that in January 2025, 13 years after it was first released, Siri continues to be a joke. Every time I try to use Siri in front of a member of my family, there’s a 50–50 chance of success. When it…
Continue reading →Another Siri?
Mark Gurman’s got another AI/Siri report and it’s a doozy. According to the latest rumors, Apple is cooking up an LLM-powered Siri for iOS 19 and macOS 16. The idea is that this would be yet another Siri reboot, but this time built on…
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