Apple reintroduces the AI-powered Siri it announced at WWDC 2024

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We're getting a new look at the AI-powered Siri. More on that coming up, but first, there is no shortage of remakes and sequels at Summer Game Fest 2026, but Sega is tasking RGG Studio with reinvigorating the company's biggest fighting series. Instead of simply making Virtua Fighter 6, and appealing to its devoted but niche fanbase, the studio's ambitions are much bigger. With Virtua Fighter Crossroads, the studio is working on a completely new cinematic narrative fighting game, aimed at bridging the gap between fighting games and where previous VF games exist, and the story-driven experiences of series like Yakuza and Like a Dragon, not to mention the incoming Stranger Than Heaven, also being developed at the same time at RGG Studios. Set in the fictional city of Villa Separa in Southeast Asia, Crossroads isn't an outright reboot of Sega's biggest fighting series. Instead, several characters from the Virtua Fighter series will pop up within the game. Compared to the melodrama of Tekken or Street Fighter, the Virtua Fighter series arguably never pushed its storylines and narrative as hard as its rivals.
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After going MIA for two years, Apple's redesigned Siri has finally resurfaced. At WWDC 2026, the company showed off a new version of the AI-powered Siri we first saw in 2024 Apple is calling the new assistant Siri AI.
As announced at the start of the year, Apple has partnered with Google to rebuild Apple Intelligence and Siri on top of the company's Gemini models. On the iPhone, the new Siri lives inside the device's dynamic island, which debuted on the iPhone 14 Pro in 2022 before Apple brought it over to the regular iPhone in 2023 As before, you can wake the assistant by saying Siri or holding down the power button. Apple has also added a new swipe gesture, which involves pulling down from the top center of your device. The actions bring up a new search or ask interface that allows you to do things like open apps, start text messaging, add calendar appointments, and search through your notes. Over on Mac OS, users can wake Siri through Spotlight. Apple claims the search tool is intelligent enough to know when you're trying to ask a question of the assistant and will wrap the prompt accordingly. On returning a response, Siri will display an interactive card that will pop out of the dynamic island. Users can swipe down on the pop-up to open a larger window where they can ask further questions of the digital assistant. As part of the redesign, Apple says it has made the assistant's voice more natural.