Tests of the New AI Siri
125 Tests of the New AI SiriSpoiler: It’s a phone-changer.David PogueSep 17, 2026742515ShareApple may be the last company to embrace AI. But wow, was it worth the wait.The new AI Siri came out this week as part of OS 27 for iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch, and Mac, and it’s a life changer. Nobody, not even Apple, has access to it.)As a result, you can ChatGPT your own life.
- ▪125 Tests of the New AI SiriSpoiler: It’s a phone-changer.David PogueSep 17, 2026742515ShareApple may be the last company to embrace AI.
- ▪But wow, was it worth the wait.The new AI Siri came out this week as part of OS 27 for iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch, and Mac, and it’s a life changer.
- ▪Nobody, not even Apple, has access to it.)As a result, you can ChatGPT your own life.
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125 Tests of the New AI SiriSpoiler: It’s a phone-changer.David PogueSep 17, 2026742515ShareApple may be the last company to embrace AI. But wow, was it worth the wait.The new AI Siri came out this week as part of OS 27 for iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch, and Mac, and it’s a life changer. A phone changer. It replaces most Google searches, most ChatGPT or Claude interactions, and cumulative hours of fumbling and searching and dragging and copying and finding and tapping and pasting.Also, this is ethical AI: It deceives nobody, puts nobody out of work, and draws 100% of its power from renewable sources.This Siri can see into your Apple apps: Mail, Messages, Notes, Files, Calendar, Contacts, Reminders, Photos, Music, and so on. (Of course, all of this data is locked on the phone.
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