SAY HI TO “SIRI AI"—APPLE ANNOUNCES NEW, MORE “CONVERSATIONAL” VOICE ASSISTANT

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Siri AI reframes Apple's voice assistant as a persistent conversational layer across apps and device data rather than a task-by-task utility, capable of chaining requests across messages, maps, calendar, and email in a single exchange. The update introduces a two-tier model structure that reserves the most capable features for newer hardware meeting specific chip and memory requirements, leaving older supported devices on a reduced version. Google's Gemini powers the underlying foundation model following a deal struck earlier this year, and some features rely on private cloud compute with daily usage limits for off-device processing.