😺 Apple finally rebuilt Siri
The Neuron · Grant Harvey · 2026-06-09
Apple's WWDC26 unveils a rebuilt Siri as an AI operating layer across all apps, co-developed with Google's Gemini technologies and backed by on-device Private Cloud Compute, while The Neuron flags developer adoption as the critical execution risk.
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Topics: apple-siriwwdcon-device-aiai-assistantsagentic-ai
Claims
- Apple rebuilt Siri as an AI operating layer that can understand screen content, files, and applications to take actions across all installed apps on a device.
- Apple's next-generation Foundation Models were co-developed with Google using Gemini technologies, then adapted for on-device use and Private Cloud Compute.
- Anthropic's Mythos model can exploit newly disclosed software vulnerabilities in hours, accelerating known-vulnerability attacks beyond human speed.
- Microsoft shut down more than 70 GitHub repositories after the Miasma worm targeted Claude and Gemini coding-agent users.
- Siri AI's practical intelligence outside Apple's own apps depends entirely on third-party developers wiring their apps into Apple's new AI plumbing.
Key quotes
Apple is trying to make AI useful by putting it where the friction lives: the camera, keyboard, browser, calendar, photos, files, calls, apps, and screen.
The best AI application is the AI app that can use all your other apps for you.
If they can do this, then we're finally in the 'value-accrues to the app' era of the AI transition.