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According to Bloomberg's Mark Gurman, Apple's new CEO John Ternus is privately urging software chief Craig Federighi to accelerate Siri's AI development, including giving it more agent-like capabilities. Gurman points to Siri's automatic weak-password fixing as an early example of agentic behavior, though he notes Apple still trails rivals in building fully autonomous AI assistants.
Apple's macOS 27.3 beta 1, released alongside new Safari and Siri features, lets Quick Look render .md files with proper formatting instead of showing raw Markdown syntax. The update follows Apple's broader push to support Markdown across its platforms, including import/export in Notes and Markdown-based SKILL.md files used by its new Siri AI developer framework.
Apple's iOS 27.3 beta 1 adds Siri AI support for Chinese (traditional), Norwegian, Turkish, and Vietnamese, bringing the total to 10 supported languages. This follows last week's iOS 27.2 release, which added French, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, and Spanish support. The beta also includes new app actions, a Siri Recap feature, and expanded developer tools.
Apple has released iOS 27.3 beta 1, which brings Apple Intelligence to users in China for the first time. The update includes features such as real-time translation, Writing Tools, visual intelligence, Clean Up and Genmoji in Photos, Mail summaries and priority messages, notification summaries, and Siri improvements like Type to Siri. Notably absent is Siri's AI-enhanced capabilities tied to iOS 27's newer additions.
Apple announced that developers can now build Siri AI integrations, called 'app skills,' for any app, moving beyond the limited schemas supported in earlier Siri versions. The feature lets apps teach Siri to handle multi-step, cross-app actions and will roll out with iOS 27.3, macOS 27.3, and related updates. Apple has also used these foundational changes to add new Siri capabilities across its own apps.
Apple has released iOS 27.3 as a beta, adding extensive new Siri capabilities across apps including Music, Messages, Notes, Photos, Calendar, Reminders, Safari, Journal and Files. New voice commands let users build playlists, schedule or unsend messages, edit photos, create calendar invites, manage browser tabs, and organize files, among other tasks. Apple is also opening this Siri integration framework to third-party developers, with public release expected later this year.
Apple has released the first release candidates for macOS Sequoia 15.8.3 (build 24H314) and macOS Tahoe 26.7.3 (build 25G416), alongside the first developer beta of macOS 27.3. The RC release notes cite only security fixes without specifying vulnerabilities, continuing a pattern seen last week when 15.8.2 and 26.7.2 patched over 150 security issues.
Apple has seeded the first developer beta of macOS 27.3 Golden Gate, build 26C5035r, just a week after macOS 27.2 shipped. The update is expected to add Siri AI support for Traditional Chinese, Norwegian, Turkish and Vietnamese, continuing a language rollout Apple has promised to complete by year's end.
Apple has begun rolling out iOS 27.3, letting third-party developers integrate Siri's AI features into their apps, enabling the assistant to use personal context, natural language processing, and on-screen awareness to complete tasks. The update also introduces an 'app skills' feature that lets developers chain multiple tasks into one action, and extends Siri's expanded abilities to Apple's own apps like Calendar, Mail, Notes, and Photos.
Apple reported 12% revenue growth for the September quarter, beating Wall Street estimates, driven largely by price increases. New CEO John Ternus, alongside CFO Kevan Parekh, warned that services growth will keep slowing and gross margins will keep shrinking due to rising memory costs, prompting shares to fall as much as 4%, per The Wall Street Journal. The $1,999 foldable iPhone Duo is selling well enough that shipments have slipped to January, even as Apple's Siri chatbot lags behind rivals like Instinct and Muse.
On Apple's quarterly earnings call, CEO John Ternus said the newly shipped Siri AI features are just a starting point, with 'so much more' planned. He noted Siri currently works on a 'request-based' model built on an orchestrator-driven architecture that leaves room to add agentic capabilities, provided Apple can ensure user awareness, security and privacy.
Apple reported record quarterly results, but new CEO John Ternus faced criticism for his handling of his first earnings call, with commentators from Bloomberg and Fortune describing his remarks as rehearsed and cautious. Ternus shared the call with CFO Kevan Parekh and COO Sabih Khan, a departure from Apple's recent practice of having the CEO field most questions. Apple shares slipped in pre-market trading after the company flagged rising memory costs and expenses tied to building Siri AI data centers.