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Apple has Siri. Huawei has an army of agents in HarmonyOS 7

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Huawei’s intentions with HarmonyOS are clear: do not need absolutely nobody to achieve quality software in your product ecosystem. As part of its annual developer conference, Huawei has made official Harmony OS 7which will be the next update of your operating system. Richard Yu made it clear at the conference that this new version will be focused on AI agents, an intention in line with what Google and Apple are trying. The era of agents. The Agentic AI is the buzzword, but it is worth reviewing the term before understanding what Huawei wanted to do with the new version of HarmonyOS. An AI agent in a system developed to perceive its environment and make automatic decisions using AI models. Basically, the focus of use shifts: we are no longer the ones who have to actively search for the AI ​​solution so that it can perform tasks for us autonomously. Up to 2,000. Richard Yu has boasted that the next version of HarmonyOS will allow Celia (Huawei’s Siri) to connect with more than 2,000 specialized agents. The numbers are somewhat ambiguous, since this is the capacity of the system, not a translation of HarmonyOS being immediately connected to 2,000 agents. In other words, the system will allow Celia to perform dozens of tasks herself (with our permission). For example, during the presentation, Huawei showed how the system can generate personalized training plans using our information from the health app, all locally. It can also locate files on the mobile phone to send them to a third party with a voice command: the agent can connect to compatible apps so that Celia can execute the order. What else is new. For years, iOS has been the benchmark in security. Android redoubled efforts with its version 17the most secure to date, and HarmonyOS 7 wanted to take the baton. The new version will automatically block SMS suspected of fraud, monitor bank transfers made abroad (for now, in Chinese banking apps), and analyze deepfakes in real time using AI. Added to this is a 15% performance increase compared to the previous version, promising that energy consumption has been reduced, without daring to give percentages here. The roadmap. Huawei’s plan with HarmonyOS 7 is not to release just an update to its ROM. Huawei’s commercial objective is to give life to mobile phones, computers, tablets, and even adapt these iterations to cars. It is expected that the new version will begin to land on Chinese devices in the month of October, and that some of these functions (not all, since a good part of these integrations are designed for Chinese apps) will reach the rest of the world later. Image | Xataka In Xataka | Huawei FreeBuds Pro 5, analysis: its noise cancellation can only be defined with two words and they are “black magic”

The European Commission responds to Apple’s criticism and distances itself with its story about Siri AI

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Maybe the Apple Intelligence news convince us more or less, and maybe Siri AI still have a lot to prove when it hits devices. But there is a quite concrete reality for European users: if they have an iPhone or an iPad, they will not be able to try out one of Apple’s big bets to iOS 27 and iPadOS 27. The Cupertino company has placed the delay in the field of European regulation, but the story does not end there. What we have seen next is a direct clash between Apple and Brussels over control of AI assistants and the rules that should open them to competition. Brussels’ response. The European Commission has not accepted that reading. According to Reuterss, his spokesman Thomas Regnier said that “the decision not to launch Siri AI in the EU is Apple’s and Apple’s alone,” adding that there is nothing in the Digital Markets Law that prevents the company from introducing new products in the European Union. The message was even more direct when explaining what Apple had asked for during the conversations: to be exempt from its interoperability obligations for at least 18 months. “That is not an option,” Regnier concluded. What is DMA? It is likely that in recent years we have read these acronyms many times, but the DMA is better understood when a specific case appears on the table. The Digital Markets Law is a European competition law that seeks to prevent large platforms from closing access to services, applications and users. In the case of Siri AI, the debate focuses on interoperability: if Apple deploys its own artificial intelligence assistant, it must also allow third-party developers to offer alternative assistants within its ecosystem. Apple as gatekeeper. That framing helps to understand why Brussels does not present the case as a simple calendar decision. Thomas Regnier, quoted by The New York Timesrecalled that Apple is a “gatekeeper” and that “it cannot close the market.” The company itself explains in its documentation on the DMA that the European Commission designated it as such in relation to iOS, App Store and Safari on September 5, 2023, and with iPadOS on April 29, 2024. The bottom line, therefore, is not only when Siri AI arrives, but how the ecosystem opens up to services that compete with Siri AI. What changes for you if you are in Europe. The most visible consequence is simple: if you use an iPhone or iPad in the European Union, Siri AI will not be there when iOS 27 and iPadOS 27 arrive. Apple also leaves out watchOS 27, because the watch needs to be paired with an iPhone that has Siri AI. On Mac and Vision Pro, however, the company does plan to offer the new version of the assistant. What is left behind on mobile and tablet includes the app to review conversations, expanded Visual Intelligence, integrated writing tools and Siri mode in Camera. The proposal that Brussels did not accept. In his statementApple says it designed Trusted System Agent, an intermediary so that other virtual assistants could securely access the same features and capabilities as Siri AI on European devices. The company assures that it also proposed a gradual deployment of that solution over 18 months while it brought Siri AI to the European Union. The bottom of the pulse. Apple presents the delay as a consequence of the DMA and privacy and security risks that, according to the company, have not been recognized by European regulators. Brussels responds from another place: it maintains that the rule does not prevent launching new products in the European Union and that Apple has not found a solution compatible with its obligations. Images | Apple | Pascal Bullan In Xataka | The biggest sign that a foldable iPhone is coming went unnoticed at WWDC

Apple has designed Siri AI so that we can use the iPhone without touching it. I’ve been doing the same thing on my Android phone for months.

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A young Apple manager appears on the scene with a Profidén smile, very excited. “Siri is going to be much more conversational“he begins by saying. It refers, of course, to the new Siri AI that Apple has just presented. The hope—It has been difficult, we will see— is that finally Siri stop looking stupid. After talking about some of these options, the young man is encouraged to give a demonstration in real time. Press the side button and ask Siri about World Cup match planning for the first weekend. After a few seconds – the video is honest and reflects that Siri takes a few moments to respond, like any AI – the answer appears. The assistant suggests some dishes, but he thinks he remembers that someone mentioned a dessert from a friend. Siri, who has access to his messages and iPhone data, finds the answer and the young man asks him to plan the menu with that last dessert. You do so, and then ask Siri to set up a message to invite your chat group to the event. Soccer party set up. Everything seems to work, and it’s a relief, because this is just what one would have expected from Siri with AI. That’s the good news. The not so good thing is that this is actually latealthough as they say, better late than never: everything that the young man showed in that video we can do on Android phones thanks to Gemini for months and even years. I did the test on my mobile asking the same thing. It is true that it did not show me circular icons with the flags of the countries that face each other in each match (mini point for that Siri visual detail), but then I followed the same process. So, I asked him to recommend ideas for organizing a small party to watch one of the games with friends, and he suggested a menu similar to the one Siri proposed in the Apple demo. Then he suggested that I want to add the appointment to the calendar, and when I said yes, he told me to connect my calendar to Gemini, which I had not done yet, and the same thing if I wanted to invite friends to the event: he asked me for permission to access my contacts. Personally, I’m still not entirely comfortable with giving Gemini that access to those personal data on my phone, so the demo didn’t turn out as nice to me as it did to the Apple executive, but one thing is clear: the option is there if one wants to use it. The arrival of Siri AI, however, is great news, because it “normalizes” something that iPhone users inexplicably could not do when it had been available on Android phones for a long time. Copying Gemini is just what Siri needed Actually it doesn’t normalize it at all: European citizens will not have access to Siri AI on their iPhonesbecause Apple has indicated that the European DMA prevents it. Beyond the fact that this decision is motivated by much more delicate issues (such as the obsession with maintain full control of its platform), the reality for the moment will be that. But as we said, the arrival of Siri AI, although late, is very welcome because it confirms a paradigm shift that we are experiencing very little by little but that is infiltrating our lives: instead of touching our smartphone, we will talk to it. AI-powered conversational voice assistants, such as Gemini or Siri AI, will allow let’s do more and more things with our mobile without having to touch it. All you have to do is talk to it to ask for them, and AI models that are increasingly capable and have increasing access to the resources of our mobile phone—not only the data we store on it, but also its applications and services—execute those requests. Being able to customize Siri AI’s voice is a very strong point in this assistant. It is an evolution that is slowly and progressively creeping into our mobile usage routine. It also does so with continuous improvements both in the way of interacting with these AI-powered assistants and in the ability to personalize them. In fact, it was striking how Apple now offers a new voice for Siri AI, but above all it offers the possibility of modify that voice so that it has a different rhythm and expressiveness according to our preferences. The options shown by Apple are not at all new. We saw it when another Apple official asked, for example, that Siri AI search for information about an upcoming concert by a group in San Francisco or when it used the system’s “visual intelligence” to identify a place in a photo. All of this is basically a copy of what we already had on Android phones thanks to Gemini, and precisely that Google experience has been what Apple has taken advantage of to transfer all those capabilities to its devices. It’s good news. but maybe be more for Google than for Apple. In Xataka | Siri, help me commit suicide

These are all the new features from Apple Intelligence and Siri AI that come to your iPhone with iOS 27

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We are going to tell you all the Apple Intelligence and Siri AI news that will come to your iPhone when it updates to iOS 27. Because the main protagonist of the next version of Apple’s mobile operating system is artificial intelligence, driven by the Gemini models, and which will revolutionize Siri. So that you understand everything that is coming, we are going to give you a list of all the new features, briefly describing each of them. And then, we will also give you the bad news about its arrival in Europe. What’s new in Apple Intelligence in iOS 27 Let’s continue with the list of new features from Apple Intelligence and Siri AI that have been presented by Apple. We are going to tell you in summary so that you can see and understand them easily. Apple Intelligence Architecture Apple Founding Models: Apple’s new AI models have been created in collaboration with Google. They take advantage of the technology behind the Gemini family of models by adapting it for use in local processing and on servers. Hybrid processing: Apple’s new AI will be able to work both locally on your device and in the cloud, using servers with Private Cloud Compute architecture to guarantee that the data you store is not accessible by Apple or third parties. Advanced local model: There will be a more powerful secondary version optimized for use locally on systems with the most capable Apple Silicon processors. This version will understand and generate speech, text and images with high precision. Multimodal and understands the context: The new Apple Intelligence is multimodal, that is, it understands text, image and video. You can also securely coordinate system capabilities through personal context, actions in applications (App Actions) and awareness of what is on the screen (On-screen awareness). Semantic Indexing: Integration with Spotlight to instantly search for old or new content locally on the device. Siri AI New Siri: Siri is officially renamed Siri AI. The Apple assistant becomes an artificial intelligence assistant, and becomes powered by the new Apple Intelligence architecture. Coherent Conversational Experience: Allows you to have fluid conversations with Siri, speaking to her and receiving detailed responses. Interactions are saved privately and synchronized via iCloud in the new app. New dedicated Siri app: Siri has a new standalone app on iOS, iPadOS, and macOS to improve the way we interact with her. Visual Redesign: More fluid interface than on iOS allows you to swipe down from the Dynamic Island to write to you directly. In visionOS it is presented as a 3D visualization that can be placed anywhere in space and activated just by looking at it. On macOS you can also invoke it from context menus or Spotlight. Enhanced System Dictation: Great increase in keyboard precision, respecting spellings, punctuation and capitalization thanks to the integrated advanced model. Personality settings: Siri has a new, more natural and conversational voice. But you will also be able to customize it to adjust your personality, speed or type of voice. Integrated into the search engine: Siri is also integrated into the search engine. When you type a request, it will be detected as something for AI and Siri AI will respond. Visual Intelligence: There is a native Siri mode in the iOS camera app. It allows you to take a photo of what’s in front of you and get detailed information about whatever, ask for recipes, get nutritional information. You can even scan an account and split the payment. Writing and Creativity Tools Siri in writing: Siri has the ability to generate texts from scratch in any app on your mobile or Mac, describing what you need in natural language. In Mail and Messages, adapt your tone by mimicking how you usually communicate with a specific contact. Automatic System Correction– Apple Intelligence automatically reviews and corrects writing in the background in almost all apps, including third-party ones, without additional steps. An integrated concealer. Evolution of Image Playground: Image generation improves in quality, including styles such as photorealism. It does this with a model in Private Cloud Compute. It allows you to apply styles to photos in your library and edit them using natural language or touch gestures. Intelligence Applied to Native Apps Safari: AI can automatically classify and organize open tabs by theme or topic. Also the function of monitoring web pages using natural language and notifying if something changes. In addition, it allows you to create custom extensions describing in natural language what you want the tool to do on the web. Passwords: Allows you to automatically update eligible accounts to give them strong passwords with a single touch. The system autonomously navigates the website in question safely to apply the change. Only if they are compatible. Shortcuts: Creating shortcuts is made as simple as possible. Now you just have to describe the automation you want in natural language and Apple Intelligence brings together all the steps and applications required to build it. Photos: Advanced editing with distraction removal in complex scenes with more realistic backgrounds. You can also stretch the edges of an image to change the aspect ratio or straighten horizons using smart generation. Additionally, you can change the three-dimensional perspective of an already taken photo using local spatial models, recalculating the angles of the scene as if you had physically moved the camera sideways or down when shooting. Integration at Home: Siri AI will also work at Home, and will integrate with smart speakers. Siri AI will not arrive in Europe (for now) Siri AI and all the new artificial intelligence news will arrive with iOS 27. However, They will not reach Europe because Apple fails to comply with European legislation. EU law forces Apple to allow any third-party assistant to do the same as Siri AI, to don’t make users only have one optionand can choose from others available. Apple hides behind the fact that allowing other AI apps to access your apps, read your messages, modify files or make purchases for … Read more

the new Siri at the forefront of a bigger update than it seems

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iOS 27 has a clear protagonist: Siri. After years of falling behind what many expected from an assistant built into the iPhone, Apple has shown in the WWDC26 a much more ambitious version, designed to better understand what we do, help us within the apps and respond with more context. Artificial intelligence takes a good part of the focus, but this update also touches many pieces of everyday life: from the camera and photos to Liquid Glass and performance. Siri: Apple’s great pending promise Assistant is by far the most ambitious change to the iPhone operating system. Those from Cupertino have not limited themselves to giving longer answers or a more natural voice: they have updated Siri with Apple Intelligence at the center so that it better understands personal context, takes into account what appears on the screen, recognizes images and can act within applications. It also gains access to updated knowledge of the web and becomes more conversational, with richer responses and the possibility of maintaining a back-and-forth with the user. The idea is that Siri stops serving only to set an alarm or send a message and starts solving more complex tasks simply by asking it. Apple has shown simple but very illustrative examples: “when is the Suki Waterhouse concert in San Francisco?”, “how can I buy tickets?”, or more personal requests supported by information distributed by the device. It will also be able to help with writing and editing practically anywhere we can enter text. Everything seems to indicate that Siri wants to stop being a function that we use to get by and become a layer of help that is much more present on the iPhone. Liquid Glass: Apple adjusts its big redesign after listening to feedback Liquid Glass It also receives adjustments in iOS 27. Apple introduced this visual language last year as its most ambitious cross-platform design update, but now it recognizes something quite natural in a change of this size: after the first leap come the refinements. The company has explained that it has listened to comments from users and developers. This translates to a new slider in Settings to adapt its look, from a lighter, sharper version to a more tinted one. Added to this is a more uniform top toolbar in applications, designed to keep labels, text and headers more readable. Search: Spotlight, Photos and Mail better find what’s already there Apple has also rebuilt one of those parts of the system that we only miss when it fails: search. We’ve all had that moment of looking for something we know is on the iPhone and for some reason it doesn’t appear. With iOS 27, the company has redesigned the base that powers Spotlight, Photos and Mail, with a more stable, efficient and complete index to better understand what content we have and where to find it. After updating, the system will re-index the device to have a more accurate image of what was already there. In Mail there is also a new ranking system so that the email we are looking for has more options to appear at the top. Child safety: more controls for families and adolescents The apple firm has also dedicated a part of iOS 27 to child safety. Apple expands the tools so that parents can better decide who their children communicate with, manage access to apps and adapt device use to different times of the day. Communication Safety will continue to warn and blur images or videos that may contain nudity, and also adds new protections against shared violent content. In Time of Use, there are recommendations for daily limits by categories such as entertainment, games and social networks, as well as times to choose which apps are available during school, on the weekend or during leisure time. In development. Images | Apple In Xataka | AI has meant that so many apps have never been launched in such a short time. The problem is that almost no one is using them.

Follow the Apple keynote and the news of iOS 27, Siri and more live

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June 8 is coming and that means two things: that it’s starting to get hot and that we have an Apple event. As is tradition, the apple company has summoned us today in Cupertino for the WWDC 2026, the event for developers where it presents its latest software developments (and, for some time now, artificial intelligence). Of course, from Xataka we will be at the foot of the canyon covering it live both in our live page as on our YouTube channel. The event will begin at 7:00 p.m. Spanish peninsular time. We leave you the schedules by region here: Spain: 19:00 (18:00 in the Canary Islands). Mexico: 11:00 AM Colombia: 12:00 AM. Venezuela and Chile: 1:00 PM. Argentina: 2:00 PM. WWDC 2026, live What we hope to see In all of WWDC there have been, for a couple of years, two things: new versions of operating systems, of all; and some artificial intelligence. Surely today we will see iOS 27 and its brothers for iPad, Mac and Watch and other devices, although no big news is expected in terms of functions. What’s more, this year’s systems are expected to be “a bit Snow Leopard,” that is, transitional versions focused on polishing and purification of what already exists. After all, it was in iOS 26 when Apple made its big leap in terms of design, so it wouldn’t make sense to do it again this time. On the other hand, it is expected that artificial intelligence will be the main protagonist. Not because there is going to be a groundbreaking announcement, which maybe, but because Apple has had a pending task for two years: deliver the new Siri and, therefore, vitaminize Apple Intelligence. Let us remember that at the beginning of the year Apple joined forces with Google to be able to use the Gemini models and their cloud technology. Today, possibly, we will see the materialization of that agreement. In short, everything indicates that it will be a WWDC 2026 focused on fulfilling promises rather than teaching new things. As far as hardware goes, it would be strange as long as there were no major leaks or rumors. Now, it is worth keeping an eye on iOS 27 for one simple reason: what it can (or cannot) tell us about the much-rumored foldable iPhone What we expect for this year. We will clear up doubts in a while. Image | Apple edited by Xataka In Xataka | Follow WWDC 2026 live

The new Siri will arrive soon in beta phase. It doesn’t matter when you read this

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The new Siri will arrive in beta phase with iOS 27. And yes, you have already read this news… two years ago. Gurman himself failed in his predictions, as he expected the beta version of Siri to land early this year, in one of the iOS 26 betas. With Gemini Intelligence presented and the advanced state of third-party alternatives such as ChatGPT either Claudeit may seem that Apple’s delays are getting more serious. The truth is that it matters little. The new. Gurman has revealed important details about the iOS 27 news and, among them, it seems inevitable that the new Siri will finally arrive. Although it will be an independent application (like any of its rivals), it will be fully integrated into the system and can be invoked as before. To reinforce privacy, Apple will allow you to schedule automatic deletion of conversations. A function that casts certain doubts since, whether we like it or not, the proper functioning of an AI depends on how much it knows us. And if you are going to forget what we talked about for privacy, you will have a difficult time in new conversations. If you can’t beat the enemy… Siri as a direct rival to Gemini, GPT or Claude doesn’t make much sense, so the leak suggests that iOS will not depend exclusively on its model. When she is not able to respond for herself, will continue to use third partiesas it currently does in its integration with OpenAI. After the agreement between Google and AppleGemini will be at the base of much of Siri’s behavior. The question is how much and in what way, since privacy is Apple’s main concern compared to other models. what’s happening. The internal delays in the new Siri are causing chaos that is taking a media toll on Apple, and there is no firm explanation beyond the fact that they will only release it to the public when they are ready. The shipwreck of the new Siri It is a mixture of competing visions, technical errors and an internal war between the Artificial Intelligence and software teams themselves. The obsession with privacy has led to two years of delays in a territory where progress is counted weekly. For years Apple set the pace of the industry. For two years now, for the first time in a long time, he seems to be running after her. In Xataka | Welcome to the AI ​​duopoly: the sector already has a turnover of 80 billion a year, but OpenAI and Anthropic take 89% of the revenue

The new Siri will not be Gemini with another face. Apple has helped Google to build what it could not do alone

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The new Siri, according to rumors, was going to land with iOS 26.4. This version arrived on compatible iPhones yesterday and, to no one’s surprise, there is no trace of Gurman’s prediction. What we have woken up with is new details about the agreement between Google and Apple related to access to Gemini. And there are interesting details. The agreement. Quick context: Apple and Google have teamed up to give Apple access to Gemini. The company has been promising for years that Siri, integrated into Apple Intelligence, will be an assistant that lives up to expectations. But after delays and more delays, it became clear that Apple needed help. The multi-year collaboration allowed Apple Foundation Models to rely on Gemini models, running on the platform Private Cloud Computing from Apple. Beyond this, no details about the agreement were revealed. The new. According to The Informationthe collaboration between Apple and Google will be somewhat deeper than expected. So much so that Apple would have full access to the Gemini model within its facilities. One of the company’s main purposes would be to produce smaller models designed to run locally and oriented to specific tasks within Apple devices. Distillation. Apple would not have agreed with Google to access Gemini with an integrated Siri interface. The objective is to use the main model to “distill” more efficient models, with lower requirements and fast operation. In other words and based on this information, Apple has made clear Google’s superiority in its AI models. So much so that he has needed to access them directly to be able to create the solutions that he has been promising for two years. What’s coming. According to Gurman, Apple is finalizing the changes to Siri to present it on June 8 at its WWDC, the developer conference it holds annually. In it, we will supposedly see Siri as a chatbot integrated into iPhone and Mac, as a real alternative to ChatGPT, Claude and Gemini. Late, very late. Apple’s problem is not being late with AI. It is coming at a time when giants like Claude iterate practically daily and when it is more than difficult to surprise the world. All the promises of Apple Intelligence, that contextual Siri, and that deep integration with the phone are already achieved by some of its rivals, since Apple has been waiting for two years. The big question is whether or not it will be worth the wait. In Xataka | Apple confirms the date of WWDC26 and hints at something important: AI will not be the only focus

Gemini and Siri were monopolizing modern cars. So Musk has brought Grok to European Teslas

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Tesla is starting to roll out Grok in Europe for free. The electricians of Elon Musk’s company have been betting on their own software from the beginning, leaving hardly any room for third parties. No trace of Android Auto, CarPlayor the best-known assistants, Grok arrives as that intelligent “co-pilot” aboard the Tesla. The problem is that… still very Musk. the arrival. Grok arrives as a free update on European Teslas. We can choose their voice and personality, like in the smartphone application. To start it, all you have to do is activate it from the application launcher itself or press the voice button on the steering wheel. If we have logged in to Grok, from that moment on, it will become the device’s default voice assistant. What can you do. Grok’s list of possibilities is extensive, from guiding us to a destination to locating a nearby supercharger or simply maintaining an informal dialogue with us and recommending options from our Tesla’s digital manual. In addition to this, it has quite curious functions. You can be our language teacher Has special modes for kids, like “Story Time” and trivia games It has a mode for adults (+18), controversial, “sexy”, “extravagant”. In which Teslas it will be available. Currently, this is the list of Tesla cars compatible with Grok. The requirement is that our car has an AMD processor, that the software is updated to version 2025.26 or later, and that we have a WiFi connection or the premium connectivity pack. To find out if your Tesla has an AMD processor, you must go to ‘Controls’ > ‘Software’ > ‘Additional vehicle information’. Careful. Grok, despite its potential as an AI modelis involved in recent controversies. The app has become a focus of misuse, an infinite well of content related to the naked women. Countries like France and India have already denounced itand the Government of Spain has asked the prosecutor’s office to investigate X for the possible dissemination of child pornography through the app. In this context, perhaps it is worth debating whether bringing Grok with an “adult mode” to Tesla vehicles is the most appropriate. In Xataka | Elon Musk thought that Tesla would live outside politics. Germany has shown him the hard way that he was wrong

Apple announced with great fanfare that the new Siri would be different from the rest of the AIs. It turned out that without Google there was no Siri

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I’m not going to hide, I’m one of those who believed Apple when announced with great fanfare that Apple Intelligence It would be different from the rest. He had reasons to do so: his financial muscle, his obsession with taking care of the software and his philosophy of arriving late to the game to score the goals at the last minute. But here I was wrong. The only way Google has had to play in this game has been using someone else’s deck. From waiting almost two years to having it now. Apple announced Apple Intelligence in its 2024 keynote. One in which it did not give too many details but showed us a different approach to AI than that of Google and OpenAI. An AI with real interaction with the operating system, integration with both native and third-party apps… a real “co-pilot” completely integrated into iOS, and not a super-vitamined app, but isolated from the whole. From that keynote until then the only thing we have is Siri being able to open ChatGPT when the question gets a little complicated. And, just a few weeks after announcement of the agreement between Apple and GoogleGurman affirms that we will see the new Siri in a matter of weeks. If the prediction came true, it was not a matter of time. It was a matter of not having the resources. What’s coming in February. Gurman tells Power On that the Siri 2.0 that we have been waiting for since 2024 can become a reality in the second half of February. In fact, he points out that one of the reasons why Apple made the announcement of the collaboration with Google official was because it was close to obtaining sufficient demonstrations of its functionality. Although there are no details about how their disembarkation will be, the modus operandi from Apple is easy to predict: we will have to update our iPhone to the corresponding version of iOS 26 that includes these new features, since Apple introduces improvements to its native apps through system updates. Not so fast. Although there are no details on how long Apple and Google have actually been working, what we do know is that the new Siri is not ready yet. Gurman points out that it will arrive in beta phase starting in February, and that the objective is not to delay the final version until beyond April. Again, evidence that Apple did not have the Siri that it boasted so much about ready, accelerating and putting two extra gears now that it has the support of Google. It can turn out well. My colleague Javier Pastor told, very correctly, how Apple can the parasite’s strategy works for him. The company is not going to enter the investment battle for new models: it is going to spend millions of dollars to take advantage of an existing infrastructure and use an already proven pillar. The new Siri will be a premium wrapper for Gemini and, landing in the real world, few beyond those of you reading these lines will even be aware that Google’s AI is what is powering your iPhone’s AI. Image | Xataka In Xataka | The Apple Intelligence and Siri disaster has caused something unusual: Apple gives the keys to its kingdom to Google

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