{"id":9483,"date":"2026-06-09T12:01:18","date_gmt":"2026-06-09T12:01:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.theck1.no\/?p=9483"},"modified":"2026-06-09T12:01:18","modified_gmt":"2026-06-09T12:01:18","slug":"say-hi-to-siri-ai-apple-announces-new-more-conversational-voice-assistant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.theck1.no\/?p=9483","title":{"rendered":"Say hi to &#8220;Siri AI&#8221;\u2014Apple announces new, more &#8220;conversational&#8221; voice assistant"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-bottom:1em; color:#666; font-size:0.9em;\">\n<strong><br \/>\n                    Kyle Orland<br \/>\n                <\/strong><br \/>\n &bull;<br \/>\nJune 8, 2026\n<\/div>\n<hr\/>\n<p>Today at its pre-filmed Worldwide Developers Conference keynote, Apple was finally prepared to fully introduce the <a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/apple\/2025\/03\/apple-reportedly-planning-executive-shake-up-to-address-siri-delays\/\">long-delayed &#8220;Apple Intelligence&#8221; update<\/a> for its Siri voice assistant. The new &#8220;Siri AI&#8221;\u2014now being promised for OS updates rolling out &#8220;this fall&#8221;\u2014will come alongside a new Google-powered update to Apple&#8217;s on-device Foundation Models, as well as tighter integration of all these AI capabilities across Apple&#8217;s many operating systems.<\/p>\n<p>Unlike other companies that &#8220;appear to be racing forward, seemingly pursuing AI for the sake of AI, with little regard for the people&#8230; it&#8217;s meant to serve,&#8221; Apple&#8217;s SVP of Software Engineering Craig Federighi said, &#8220;we believe that truly helpful AI must be centered around you and your needs.&#8221;<\/p>\n<h2>Just a friendly chat with your AI assistant<\/h2>\n<p>The company highlighted this kind of focus in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=hF8swzNR1-o\">a series of scripted conversational demos with Siri AI<\/a>, complete with seemingly unedited, multi-second pauses between each spoken prompt and Siri&#8217;s response. In these demos, Apple executives showed Siri AI bouncing between different usage modes and app-based tasks as needed in an effort to highlight how Apple Intelligence can now be used &#8220;well beyond one-shot tasks&#8221; for a &#8220;brand new conversational experience&#8221; with the virtual assistant.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/apple\/2026\/06\/say-hi-to-siri-ai-apple-announces-new-more-conversational-voice-assistant\/\">Read full article<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/apple\/2026\/06\/say-hi-to-siri-ai-apple-announces-new-more-conversational-voice-assistant\/#comments\">Comments<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top:1.5em;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/apple\/2026\/06\/say-hi-to-siri-ai-apple-announces-new-more-conversational-voice-assistant\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read the full article &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kyle Orland &bull; June 8, 2026 Today at its pre-filmed Worldwide Developers Conference keynote, Apple was finally prepared to fully introduce the long-delayed &#8220;Apple Intelligence&#8221; update for its Siri voice assistant. The new &#8220;Siri AI&#8221;\u2014now being promised for OS updates rolling out &#8220;this fall&#8221;\u2014will come alongside a new Google-powered update to Apple&#8217;s on-device Foundation Models,<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/news.theck1.no\/?p=9483\" class=\"themebutton2\">READ MORE<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9483","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.theck1.no\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9483","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.theck1.no\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.theck1.no\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.theck1.no\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.theck1.no\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9483"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news.theck1.no\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9483\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.theck1.no\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9483"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.theck1.no\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9483"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.theck1.no\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9483"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}