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Apple Rebuilds Siri With Gemini-Powered Action Surface
At WWDC and on its product page, Apple unveiled Siri AI, a rebuilt assistant with on-screen awareness, broader access to on-device context, and the ability to take actions across apps; Apple presents these features as part of Apple Intelligence, with new capabilities arriving “coming this fall” and “Siri AI coming in English later this year” (Apple). Reporting by multiple outlets shows hands-on testers were able to ask Siri to extract calendar events from email, edit text across apps, and add reminders (The Verge; Wirecutter). Independent reporting claims Apple rebuilt Siri on Google’s Gemini, reportedly a custom 1.2-trillion-parameter model and that Apple pays Google on the order of $1 billion per year for access (Cringely; Wired reporting). Editorial analysis: granting an assistant the ability to act inside apps increases operational risk from hallucinations and bad actions, even if privacy protections are emphasized.