The 3 new MacOS 27 features I'm looking forward to most - starting with Siri AI

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  • MacOS 27 "Golden Gate" has very few new features, focusing on design optimizations and Siri AI.
  • Siri comes to MacOS 27 more conversational, with onscreen awareness and powered by Gemini.
  • MacOS 27 is also the end of the road for Intel-based Macs, requiring an Apple M1 processor or newer to run.

Today at Apple's Worldwide Developers' Conference, Apple announced a slim set of new features for MacOS 27, launching later this fall. This so-called "Snow Leopard" update (focused on performance improvements -- not new features) optimizes features released in MacOS Tahoe, particularly the Liquid Glass UI.

That said, there are some new features, the biggest being a complete rework of Siri to include agentic AI capabilities and on-screen awareness, allowing Mac users to ask questions about what's on their screen or invoke Siri to perform actions on...

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