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After a decade of being the punchline in every assistant comparison, Siri just got euthanized and resurrected. At WWDC 2026 today — Tim Cook’s final keynote as CEO — Apple didn’t tweak Siri. They torched it and rebuilt the whole thing from scratch under a new name: Siri AI. The twist? The engine under the hood belongs to Google. The Mea Culpa Rebrand Apple VP Mike Rockwell opened with what amounted to a corporate apology: “There are times when you expect more from Siri.” Understatement of the decade. ...

Your phone is about to stop waiting for instructions and start finishing your errands. Google dropped that bombshell at The Android Show 2026 on May 12, unveiling Gemini Intelligence — a new agentic AI layer baked directly into Android. This isn’t your grandmother’s voice assistant. Gemini Intelligence can read your screen, hop between apps, build a shopping cart from a grocery list in your Notes app, and pause only when it’s time to hit “pay.” ...

The company that introduced AI to mainstream consumers — remember when Siri debuted in 2011 and it felt like the future had arrived? — is now widely considered an AI laggard. And the man tasked with fixing that just landed the biggest promotion in tech. Apple announced that John Ternus, its longtime hardware engineering chief, will become CEO on September 1, replacing Tim Cook, who moves to executive chairman. It’s only the third CEO transition in Apple’s modern history, and it arrives at arguably the most consequential inflection point since Steve Jobs returned in 1997. ...

For years, Apple was the trillion-dollar company that couldn’t say “AI” out loud. While OpenAI, Google, and Anthropic sprinted toward frontier models, Apple clung to “machine learning” like a security blanket — a term that by 2025 felt about as current as “World Wide Web.” That era just ended. The Rebrand That Says Everything According to Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman, Apple will unveil Core AI at WWDC 2026 this June. It replaces Core ML, the machine learning framework that’s been powering on-device inference since 2017. Two letters change. The entire signal shifts. ...

Forget the Vision Pro. Apple’s next power move isn’t about strapping a screen to your face — it’s about putting AI eyes on everything else you’re already wearing. A wave of reports led by Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman has confirmed what the rumor mill has been grinding toward for months: Apple is aggressively developing three AI-powered wearable devices simultaneously. Smart glasses. An AI pendant. Camera-equipped AirPods. And over the weekend, Tim Cook signaled that Visual Intelligence — the ability for AI to see and interpret the real world around you — is the thread that stitches all three together. ...

Forget the chatbot wars. The biggest AI story developing right now isn’t about benchmark scores — it’s about where AI is going to live. Within five days, we learned that Apple is fast-tracking three AI wearables simultaneously, OpenAI has over 200 people building hardware with Jony Ive, and Meta is expanding its already-successful Ray-Ban smart glasses globally. Snap is even spinning its AR glasses into a standalone company. This isn’t coincidence. This is the starting gun of the AI hardware race. ...