🗣️ Siri’s AI Overhaul Slated for 2026: A Turning Point for Apple

Apple scraps its original Siri AI update and starts fresh — with help from OpenAI or Anthropic on the horizon.

Apple has confirmed a major delay to the smarter Siri experience it promised back in 2024. The much-hyped upgrade won’t arrive until 2026, as the in-house AI architecture didn’t meet Apple’s high reliability standards.

🛠️ Why the delay?

Apple’s software chief Craig Federighi admitted the earlier version “just doesn’t work reliably enough to be an Apple product.” The company was juggling two different AI architectures — one legacy, one new — and together, they proved unstable.

Despite demos at WWDC 2024 that showcased personalized Siri capable of reading flight times from emails and calendars, the features were never shipped. They didn’t make it into iPhone 16 or iOS 18 updates, frustrating both insiders and users.

🧠 OpenAI and Anthropic on the table

Apple is now exploring a new approach: outsourcing part of Siri’s intelligence to external models like OpenAI’s ChatGPT or Anthropic’s Claude. These partnerships could power the next-gen Siri from Apple’s own cloud, while maintaining privacy …