Apple delays Siri’s AI upgrade to 2026, prioritizing privacy and smarter features to compete with Google and Microsoft.

The technologies, often referred to by their names - Siri, Alexa and, predictably, Google - are meant to help with everyday tasks. They connect to speakers and can play music, or set a timer or ...

Siri, in contrast, didn’t fare all that well, with researchers finding that Apple’s AI checked in with an IQ of 23.9.

In the Spring of 2025, Apple announced a delay in the AI-powered Siri. In an interview with TechRadar’s Editor-at-Large, ...

App Intents for Siri will make the upgraded digital assistant capable of handling considerably more tasks on a user's behalf, and will be essential to the success of Apple's future smart home hardware ...

But how well Google Now, Apple’s Siri and Microsoft’s Cortana can predict your needs depends on how much you want to share, how wedded to particular platforms you want to be and, in some cases ...

In navigation, I prefer asking Google Assistant to open Google Maps and give me directions rather than dealing with Siri. When I say, "Hey Google, take me home," it opens the map to get me on my way.

Siri does have one key advantage over Google, of course: She’s never more than a press-and-hold away from activation. This alone will keep many people using Siri.

With Siri and Google Now, however, you can just speak the relationship simply, like "Aidan is my brother-in-law," and then it is so. Microsoft should mimic this more convenient approach.

Google's queries answered with conversation, while Siri would say, "Here's what I found on the Web," and display a hyperlink to read the answer. Examples: —We asked both to say hello in Korean.