Overview

• Bloomberg reports Apple built a ChatGPT‑style app for engineers to prototype the new Siri, which will not be released publicly.
• Testing covers persistent context, longer conversations, memory of past chats, and more actions within and between apps.
• Apple has held talks with Anthropic, OpenAI, and Google and may source models from a partner rather than rely solely on in‑house AI.
• The LLM‑powered Siri is reported for early 2026, likely in iOS 26.4, after plans tied to iOS 18 were delayed.
• Separately, a bug blocks some iPhone 17 owners from downloading Apple Intelligence; Apple support is aware, users cite temporary workarounds, and iOS 26.0.1 and the 26.1 beta are in testing.