Apple finally introduced the long awaited Siri AI assistant powered by Apple Intelligence

Apple has announced the next major versions of its operating systems at WWDC 2026, including iOS 27, iPadOS 27, macOS 27 Golden Gate, watchOS 27, visionOS 27, updates for CarPlay, and new AirPods features. But the keynote was clearly led by the long awaited Siri AI overhaul, the major AI upgrade to Apple’s smart assistant that the company has been promising since 2024 and is now finally almost here, positioning Siri as a more capable AI product powered by Apple Intelligence and Google’s Gemini models. The new version of the assistant, now called "Siri AI", will feature much deeper integration not only with iOS, but across Apple’s entire ecosystem, with system level features such as screen awareness, allowing users to ask the assistant about whatever they are seeing in any app, along with photo and camera based queries, improved AI dictation, Spotlight integration on macOS 27 "Golden Gate" for searching files, conversations, or events, and the ability to act on visual context, such as a...