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Apple Overpromised on AI Siri and Its Staff Is Not Happy About it | Siri chief reportedly called the delay in features "ugly."


Siri chief reportedly called the delay in features "ugly."

Last week, in a classic Friday news dump, Apple made the deeply embarrassing announcement that it would be delaying plans to infuse its voice assistant Siri with artificial intelligence-powered capabilities. Those features were supposed to be part of the broader suite of Apple Intelligence offerings—one of the primary selling points of the iPhone 16, which otherwise didn’t offer a whole lot of upgrades. It took until last month for Amazon to announce AI-powered features for its Alexa voice assistant, and even those are getting slow-rolled as the company introduces them to a limited selection of devices for the time being.

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