Apple Pressured to Accelerate Agentic Siri With Fine-Grained First-Party App Control
The Verge AI · rss · 2026-11-09
Per Bloomberg's Mark Gurman, Apple's CEO is pressuring AI chief Craig Federighi to speed up the Siri roadmap and deliver a powerful AI agent competing with OpenAI and Meta offerings. In the coming months Siri is expected to gain fine-grained control over Apple's first-party apps, like rotating and cropping photos in Photos and organizing Safari tabs, though the company acknowledges it isn't keeping pace with rivals.
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