Overview

• Apple built an employee‑only iPhone app called Veritas to trial multi‑turn chats, saved conversation history, personal‑data search, and in‑app actions such as photo edits.
• Reporting says Veritas feeds Project Linwood, a Siri overhaul that blends Apple’s Foundation Models with an external large language model, with Google’s Gemini frequently cited.
• Apple has no current plan to release Veritas to consumers, using it instead as a controlled sandbox to gauge features and protect privacy.
• The revamped Siri is now targeted for early 2026, with some reports pointing to March, after delays and a backend rework to improve reliability.
• Apple formed the AKI team for knowledge retrieval, is exploring ties with OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google, and emphasizes on‑device processing with Private Cloud Compute when cloud use is required.