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Apple Reintroduces The AI-Powered Siri It Announced At WWDC 2024

Say hello to Siri AI.

After going MIA for two years, Apple's redesigned Siri has finally resurfaced. At WWDC 2026, the company showed off a new version of the AI-powered Siri we first saw in 2024. Apple is calling the new assistant Siri AI. As announced at the start of the year, Apple has partnered with Google to rebuild Apple Intelligence and Siri on top of the company's Gemini models.

On the iPhone, the new Siri lives inside the device's Dynamic Island, which debuted on the iPhone 14 Pro in 2022 before Apple brought it over to the regular iPhone in 2023. As before, you can wake the assistant by saying "Siri" or holding down the power button. Apple has also added a new swipe gesture, which involves pulling down from the top center of your device. The actions brings up a new "Search or Ask" interface that...

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Quote of the day by former Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer: 'There's no chance that the iPhone is going to get any significant market share' — a staggering misread of the future of consumer devices

The iPhone will go down in history as one of the most iconic technologies that any business has introduced to the world. But not everybody, including Microsoft's former CEO Steve Ballmer, thought it would be a hit. Disrupting the market Steve Jobs' iconic presentation revealing the iPhone

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Om Malik, a longtime technology writer, founder of Gigaom, and a partner at True Ventures, died on Wednesday at 59

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Patronus AI, which builds simulated digital environments for evaluating AI agents, raised a $50M Series B led by Greenfield, bringing its total funding to $70M

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YouTube Shorts are getting even shorter with an update that lets you double the playback speed

3:02 PM PDT · June 25, 2026 YouTube is rolling out a series of changes to Shorts, including a new method that lets users shrink the duration of short form videos. The Google-owned platform announced Thursday that Shorts now comes with a setting that allows users to double their playback

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Quote of the day by former Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer: 'There's no chance that the iPhone is going to get any significant market share' &mdash; a staggering misread of the future of consumer devices

Om Malik, a longtime technology writer, founder of Gigaom, and a partner at True Ventures, died on Wednesday at 59

Patronus AI, which builds simulated digital environments for evaluating AI agents, raised a $50M Series B led by Greenfield, bringing its total funding to $70M

YouTube Shorts are getting even shorter with an update that lets you double the playback speed

Quote of the day by former Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer: 'There's no chance that the iPhone is going to get any significant market share' — a staggering misread of the future of consumer devices