Apple's claimed stance towards user privacy is admirable. Unfortunately, it is riddled with compromises and beholden to expediency, which substantially undermines the moral high road that Apple wants to appear to be a champion of. The European Commission spokesperson: "The decision not to allow Siri AI in the EU is Apple's and Apple's only" For the benefit of those who might not be aware, Apple lobbed a surprise at the end of its WWDC 2026 keynote presentation on Monday, when it disclosed that the all-new Siri AI won't launch in the EU and China on iOS and iPadOS, but would […]

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Can Apple's new AI glow-up put to bed accusations that it's losing an all-important industry race?

Apple has established a sprawling and intricate compute architecture, one that ropes in Google and NVIDIA to paper over its embarrassing AI-related shortcomings. Even so, Apple's WWDC 2026 keynote answered as many questions as raised new ones. Thankfully, the Cupertino-based tech giant is now issuing clarifications at the speed of lightning, resolving lingering uncertainties on a war footing of sorts. Apple craftily obfuscates Google's contributions to its new Apple Intelligence architecture, taking pains to point out its own technologies at the core of this new paradigm We already know that Apple Intelligence consists of a combo of on-device and cloud-based […]

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The undisputed star of the show is finally here. Apple has just unveiled the all-new Siri AI, which is powered by the much-improved Apple Foundation Models. Siri AI has world knowledge as well as your personal information on its fingertips, and is fundamentally on-screen aware Apple is now debuting a fundamentally improved Apple Intelligence architecture, which consists of new Apple Foundation Models that have been distilled from the very capable Google Gemini models, all coordinated by an orchestrator. Critically, Apple is NOT using Gemini models on your devices. Of course, depending on the capability of your existing Apple device, you […]

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The idea behind the new "Siri AI" is to turn the assistant from a voice controlled assistant into an AI companion that can do a lot more.