The filing comes a little more than a week after its main rival, Anthropic, also filed to go public, ramping up the race between the two AI firms.

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Apple spent much of its WWDC keynote highlighting fixes, performance improvements, and long-requested features before unveiling its upgraded AI-powered Siri, signaling that the company wants users to see AI as just one part of a broader effort to improve its software.

Apple CEO Tim Cook at WWDC 2026, his last WWDC as the company's CEO. WWDC Apple detailed its long-delayed overhaul to Siri at WWDC 2026. The tech giant's AI assistant is set to finally get AI-powered capabilities, some of which were initially teased in 2024. Apple announced a deal with Google in January to have Gemini power Siri's AI. Siri's full-fledged AI moment is finally here. On Monday, Apple unveiled its long-awaited, much-delayed overhaul of Siri as it looks to catch up in the AI race. "Today, we are introducing an entirely new version of Siri, Siri unlocked by Apple Intelligence," said Mike Rockwell, VP of engineering, said during the company's 2026 Worldwide Developers Conference. "We call it Siri AI." The new Siri AI will exist within Apple's software ecosystem but also as a standalone app. Siri AI will launch in beta later this year, but it will not launch in the European Union or China initially. The new Siri standalone app. Apple/Business Insider The underlying architecture of the new Siri is the result of Apple's partnership earlier this year with Google. The new features will launch in English with other languages to come. Rockwell showed Siri using a variety of AI-powered capabilities, including the ability to find previously sent addresses, photos from particular locations, and more, "using your personal context." In one example, Rockwell showed how Siri could find specific photos he needed and share them with a group without ever opening the Photos app. Apple's Justin Titi shows off its new Siri AI during WWDC 2026 Apple Siri will have a brand new voice experience "that enables Siri to sound incredible and a lot more expressive." Rockwell said users can also customize how expressive they want Siri to be. Along with voice improvements, Rockwell said Siri is also getting a dictation improvement "with a major boost in accuracy." The Siri updates were just one part of the bevy of AI-enabled features Apple plans to roll out as part of its overhaul of Apple Intelligence, including the ability for iPhone to gather context during calls, reposition the framing of photos after they've been taken, and recognize faces with home cameras. Apple said some of the new AI features will have daily usage updates. After encountering product development delays, Apple reached a deal in January with Google to have Gemini power Siri's artificial intelligence capabilities. Federighi detailed the company's "deep collaboration" with Google. "Together, we created the next generation of Apple Intelligence models," Federighi said during the WWDC livestream. In a statement, Apple said the Siri AI launch delay in the EU was due to disputes with European regulators over how the landmark Digital Markets Act applies to Apple's AI capabilities. For everyone else, Apple said the latest Apple Intelligence features and Siri AI in iOS 27 will be available on iPhone Pro 15 and later models, and iPhone 16 and later models. (A full list of the other devices that will be capable of using the AI features is here.) The most advanced AI features, including Apple's most powerful on-device AI model, will only be available on the iPhone Air, iPhone 17 Pro, and later models. Among the most powerful features will be Siri's new voice update and enhanced dictation abilities. Siri troubles lead to embarrassing delays If some of this sounds familiar, that's because much of it is. In 2024, Apple announced a massive update to Siri, promising a more "natural" and "personal" assistant powered by Apple Intelligence. But then it ran into development issues. By March 2025, Apple made the exceedingly rare move to announce that the Siri revamp was delayed. That complicated Apple's marketing efforts. Apple also pulled down a September 2024 ad featuring "The Last of Us" star Bella Ramsey that featured Ramsey using Siri's AI to pull information from the calendar app to remember someone's name. Last month, Apple agreed to pay $250 million to settle a class-action lawsuit accusing the company of misleading customers about the availability of AI-enhanced features. Tim Cook reflects on his last WWDC as CEO Tim Cook addresses the audience at Apple's WWDC 2026. On September 1, Apple hardware boss John Ternus will take over as CEO, with Cook staying on as chairman of the board. Justin Sullivan/Getty Images This is Cook's final WWDC as CEO, marking one of his last opportunities to close the chapter on Apple's AI setbacks. Apple's hardware boss John Ternus will take the helm as CEO starting on September 1. Before the keynote presentation closed, Cook reflected on his time leading Apple. "On a personal note, some of the greatest highlights of my time as CEO have been events like this," Cook said. "Sharing powerful new tools with all of you and then seeing what you create with them has been a constant reminder that imagination has no limits," he said. "Over the years, you have helped people connect, create, learn, and experience the world in extraordinary new ways." Read the original article on Business Insider

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Artificial intelligence (AI) is fundamentally reshaping the contours of life as we know it. In agriculture, the world market for AI is expected to reach almost US$47 billion by 2034. AI enables higher farm yields with fewer inputs, an outcome that matters deeply in an era of climate uncertainty and resource scarcity. In Canada, agricultural policymakers and industry leaders are gradually waking up to the promise of AI. However, as Canada’s new AI for All strategy recognizes, technology alone will not deliver the much-desired transformation while there is an “adoption gap.” Canada lags behind other G7 countries in system-wide transformation of the agricultural sector. The problem is not a lack of sophisticated tools. It is a lack of systems that help farmers understand, integrate and trust these technologies. I led my research team at Brock University in a two-year study of agricultural automation and robotics in Ontario. We found that while many technologies were technically sound and commercially available, adoption was constrained by broader structural factors. Our findings apply to AI-enabled agricultural technologies Canada-wide. The promise for farmers In agriculture, tools such as Farmer Chat, AgPal and Root AI are transforming farmers’ lives globally with real-time, data-based advice. Smart sensors monitor soil moisture, nutrient levels and pH. Drones and satellites capture high-resolution field imagery. AI systems synthesize these data to identify where crops are under stress and, in milliseconds, determine which interventions are needed, sometimes at the precise scale of a few square metres. AI-based early detection of diseases and pests allows producers to intervene before problems become visible. Computer vision systems can identify conditions such as yellow rust or blight days or weeks earlier than manual scouting, reducing crop losses and pesticide use. Irrigation platforms such as CropX dynamically adjust water application based on soil and weather data, sometimes reducing water use by up to 50 per cent. We are seeing similar trends in livestock production. Farmers use sensors, cameras and machine learning models to monitor animal health, detect lameness and identify early signs of diseases such as mastitis before outbreaks spread across herds. Why adoption keeps stalling Our research reveals three barriers to AI adoption. First, many farmers remain unaware of which AI tools exist and which ones are relevant to their operations. I call this the information gap syndrome. Second, others struggle to integrate new systems with existing equipment, data platforms and workflows. I call this the mismatch syndrome. Third, innovation system networks are often unco-ordinated, with universities, technology firms, extension services and producers working in silos rather than collaboratively. This, I call the fragmentation syndrome. The combined effect of these challenges is that support structures are weak, limiting opportunities for shared learning and co-ordinated uptake of new technologies. Systems matter more than tools To unlock AI’s potential and curb its hazards, Canadian agricultural policy needs to be grounded in what my research team calls an agricultural innovation systems approach. This perspective treats innovation as a networked process involving researchers, farmers, agri-entrepreneurs, policymakers and intermediary organizations that connect them. A key tenet of this approach is the importance of regional context in a country as geographically vast as Canada. What works for intensive dairy systems in Quebéc may not for grain producers in Saskatchewan or horticultural operations in British Columbia and Ontario. Canada’s geographic scale and production diversity mean that well-intentioned national solutions often fall short. Rising geopolitical tensions show why Canada’s agri-food trade strategy needs to change In my book, I explained the key elements of innovation systems as governance architecture. Seen through this lens, AI can serve as a powerful, transformative tool for boosting productivity and ecological stewardship in Canadian agriculture. When properly governed within a calibrated, regionally grounded innovation ecosystem, AI can support shared learning, improve knowledge exchange and help bridge gaps between technology developers and end users. When poorly deployed, it can amplify misinformation and reproduce bias embedded in training data. It can narrow rather than expand farmers’ decision-making capacity, sabotage data privacy and ownership, and ultimately undermine trust in AI-enabled tools. Moving from promise to practice Turning AI’s promise into durable change requires nothing less than fundamental, system-level change toward more co-ordinated action. Given Canada’s vast geography, policy must also strengthen regional innovation systems rather than relying on one-size-fits-all programs. Intergovernmental efforts — an approach I refer to as multi-level governance — grounded in regional innovation support ecosystems, can close knowledge gaps through training programs for farmers that focus on integration and use, rather than simply promoting technology. AI will not transform Canadian agriculture on its own. However, when embedded within an effective innovation systems governance architecture, it can make a radical contribution to a more competitive, sustainable and resilient agrifood system. Charles Conteh receives funding from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council.

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