Overview
- Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman reports that Apple is trialing a ChatGPT‑style app codenamed Veritas inside the company, with no consumer rollout planned.
- Employees can use Veritas for back‑and‑forth queries and certain tasks such as photo edits or retrieving personal data, according to the report.
- Veritas is described as a full standalone application rather than a web experiment, serving as a testbed for future Siri functions.
- Apple’s core effort is Project Linwood, a redesigned Siri that is reportedly targeting a debut as early as March 2026 with a hybrid of external models, possibly Google Gemini, and Apple’s Foundation Models.
- The shift follows a muted response to last year’s system‑level Apple Intelligence features and earlier reports of an AKI team and an AI‑driven web search tool with chat‑like capabilities; all details remain unconfirmed by Apple.