Siri Shows Up (In Google's Clothes)
Apple spent two years promising its AI was almost ready. At WWDC 2026, "almost" finally arrived — fashionably late, and apparently built by its biggest rival.
The new Siri can hold real conversations, dig through your emails and photos, search the web, and actually do things across apps. Impressive! So who built it? Google did. Mostly. Apple quietly confirmed it collaborated with the Gemini model family to power the whole thing. After years of "our silicon will close the gap," the answer was: call the search giant you've been fighting in court and ask nicely.
Every government official drafting a "sovereign AI" strategy should read that twice.
As for who actually gets Siri AI: English speakers only. China is out entirely. EU iPhone users get left out at launch too. Mandarin, Japanese, Hindi, Korean — the languages of the world's fastest-growing smartphone markets — get the old Siri for an unspecified "later."
Apple, famous for shipping the same thing to everyone on the same day, shipped its most important software in years to roughly the New England area of the global population.
Tim Cook closed his final WWDC with "I truly believe the best is still ahead." His successor John Ternus inherits an assistant powered by Google, available in one language, to half the planet.
The catching up has only just started.
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