Bloomberg: Apple CEO Ternus pushes Federighi to accelerate Siri's agentic AI roadmap
Bloomberg reports that Apple's incoming CEO John Ternus is pressing software chief Craig Federighi to accelerate Apple's AI efforts, moving beyond Siri tweaks toward agentic and other advanced capabilities. The company aims to turn Siri into a true AI agent, with near-term improvements expected to give the assistant fine-grained control over first-party apps, such as rotating and cropping images in Photos and organizing Safari tabs.
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Mark Gurman / Bloomberg : Sources: John Ternus wants more urgency in Apple's AI efforts, pushing Craig Federighi to move beyond Siri AI tweaks to agentic and other advanced capabilities — The company wants to turn Siri into a true AI agent. … Apple's new CEO is pressing software chief Craig Federighi …
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Bloomberg's Mark Gurman says CEO John Ternus is pressuring AI czar Craig Federighi to accelerate the Siri roadmap and deliver a powerful AI agent that can compete with OpenAI's Dots or Meta's Muse. While Federighi has delivered a functional version of Siri AI on an incredibly short timeline, the company has no illusions that it's keeping pace with its rivals. Two significant improvements are expected to be made to Siri in the coming months. One will give the assistant fine-grained control over Apple's first-party apps, allowing it to do things like rotate and crop images in Photos and organize Safari tabs. Those capabilities are expected to … Read the full story at The Verge.
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