Apple is pushing to make Siri work more like an agent as soon as next year, Bloomberg reports

Bloomberg's Mark Gurman reports that Apple wants to turn Siri into a more capable AI agent, possibly as soon as next year. The Verge and 9to5Mac both covered the report. According to Gurman, CEO John Ternus is pressing Craig Federighi, Apple's AI chief, to speed up the Siri roadmap and deliver an agent that can compete with OpenAI's Dots and Meta's Muse. The Verge writes that future versions of Siri are expected to control third-party apps and carry out more complex tasks. It adds that Federighi has already shipped a working version of Siri AI on a very short timeline. The report describes internal plans, not a product announcement, and Apple has not given a release date. It matters because Siri runs on Apple's devices worldwide, so a more autonomous assistant would affect both users and the developers whose apps it would operate. This would build on the developer preview that already lets apps expose their own content and actions to Siri AI.