After rounds of delays, Siri AI arrived in the consumer beta build of iOS 27, launched in July. The AI assistant now does what Apple promised: It understands your personal context, taps into broad world knowledge to answer your questions, and surfaces relevant information stored on your iPhone. And yet, the arrival feels somewhat anticlimactic. Apple finally has a functional ' actually, a fairly impressive ' AI assistant, but it's arrived past the time where such a launch feels novel and exciting. If anything, the AI race has surged ahead in the months and years Apple has dawdled on AI. Today, AI tools are coding and building software, AI agents are completing multistep tasks, and AI is working alongside you, using your computer, reasoning, thinking, remembering, creating media, and more. Being a functional chatbot or AI helper isn't the breakthrough that it once would have been. You can now have natural, back-and-forth conversations with Siri, which has settings that let you tweak...
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