Overview

• Apple is developing an AI-powered web answer feature for Siri called World Knowledge Answers that could later expand to Safari and Spotlight, according to Bloomberg.
• The initial rollout is targeted for as early as March 2026 in iOS 26.4 after delays tied to a ground-up rebuild of Siri on a new large-language-model architecture.
• Under the reported setup, Google’s Gemini could power summarization and possibly planning, while Apple Foundation Models handle on-device searches involving personal data.
• A recent U.S. court ruling that preserved Apple’s default-search arrangement with Google removes a key obstacle to deeper technical testing between the companies.
• Apple has evaluated Anthropic and OpenAI models and is no longer pursuing an acquisition of Perplexity, reflecting a hybrid strategy that mixes in-house and third-party AI.