Overview

• Bloomberg reports Apple and Google signed a formal agreement this week for Apple to evaluate a Google‑developed Gemini model to power parts of the revamped Siri.
• The feature, internally called World Knowledge Answers, is designed as an answer engine that combines web crawling, search technology, and a language model to produce summaries from the web.
• Apple intends to run any partner models on its Private Cloud Compute while using Apple Foundation Models for searches involving personal data to preserve privacy.
• The initial release is targeted for spring 2026 within Siri as part of iOS 26.4, with possible expansion to Safari and Spotlight considered for later.
• Apple is still testing models from Anthropic and OpenAI and has moved away from pursuing a Perplexity acquisition, as a recent U.S. court ruling kept its default‑search relationship with Google largely unchanged.