Hey Siri, why are you a year late?

**Brian Maucere** (0:00)
Hey, what's going on, everybody? Welcome to The Daily AI Show. It is Tuesday, what is it? June 9th, 2026, and I'm joined today by Anne, and Andy, and Brian, that's me. And appreciate y'all already being here. Lots of people already jumping into the live chat. Hey, if you want to join us in the live chat, like all our fine folks are doing, we always recommend doing that on YouTube. We're live at 10 a.m. every day. So even if you're listening to us at some other point, but you think you might have some free time around the 10 a.m. hour Eastern, then you could always come over to YouTube and join the live chat. Of course, if you can't, then we always appreciate you coming over and joining us in our community. It's up at the top of the screen, but if you're listening to us, it's the dailyaishowcommunity.com.
And that's another, it's a Slack community, it's free. It's another great way for you to join the conversation if you can't be here with Anne and Andy and myself live at the moment. So that's all that stuff. Now, Andy, I am going to kick it over to you first because yesterday I got on a tangent and then we got into some conversations and I was like, I bet you Andy has three or four more news stories that we just are not going to get to.
And I was determined to shut this show down within the hour. So I'm going to kick it to you first because I feel like if I had a guess, you have a couple of news stories you'd love to share.

**Andy Halliday** (1:19)
Yeah, I have a few things, but I think we have to lead off with just a quick recap of what was announced yesterday by Apple at the Worldwide Developer Conference. And Tim Cook's last WWDC, he's leaving and the new product guy is taking over as the CEO of one of the world's largest and most influential and most valuable companies.
They have seemed over the course of years to fumble with AI and not be really up to speed with what the latest and greatest is. But they've partnered now with Gemini, Google, Gemini to re-architect their entire AI platform underneath Siri. Now, Siri was one of the very first sort of voice recognition like AI systems, natural language interface. And it's, I don't know, 15 years old or something. It's been around for a long time. So they were definitely in the vanguard of AI. But the good news is that they have now announced that sometime later this year, you'll start to see Siri AI. Not Siri, but Siri AI. And so they're changing the name of it. It's been completely revamped. They say, there's actually the fellow who led the Siri overhaul.
Mike Rockwell did a short media presentation after the keynote at WWC yesterday. And he explained that Apple had achieved a smarter Siri a year ago. But they didn't release it and decided to go back to the drawing board to reinvent the technical infrastructure of Siri. As you can imagine, there's a lot going on behind the scenes to actually listen to what you're saying, translate that, you know, speech to text, and then text to inference, and then inference back to text, and then text to speech.
And they want the whole platform for Siri to be able to grow and be stable and adapt in the years ahead. So, what Rockwell said was that the architecture for Siri AI is completely modern, is totally ready for the future now, and now it's going to be released to us.

**Brian Maucere** (4:21)
Yeah, and Beth is screaming in the chat. Beth's internet's a little wonky, so she couldn't join us today, but she said, you had support in Siri and kept her hidden. And my answer to that is, that sounds like a nice...
Oh, hold on, let me bring Anne back in. Sorry, Anne, you were there, you were gone, you were there, you were gone. I forgot I had to bring you back there.

**Anne Murphy** (4:40)
Hi Anne.

**Brian Maucere** (4:41)
I'll be back now. But what I was going to say is, yeah, I hear what Beth is saying and I hear what you're saying in the end. I mean, look, do I believe all of this? No, because freaking Apple has caused me to put pause on all of this and truly not believe it. And yeah, I saw like highlights of the demo. Actually, just right before the show, I watched Markis Brownlee's review, quick review because he's out there at the event or whatever. And he's going to do something a little bit more of a deep dive when he's hands on. But his, and I trust him, I trust him. I don't trust Apple, but I trust him. And his result was like, yeah, I mean, they kind of pitched this one right down the middle. They didn't seem to go too crazy with any of their, what it can do. He had some questions that he wants to do hands on about how will interact with third party because he was pointing out correctly that what Apple does best when they release and get into a new area like they are with Siri AI, that what it's going to do best is work within the ecosystem of Apple, which, hey, I mean, that's a good thing that it works across devices into the Macs and hopeful Apple TV will get it and all these things, right? I wouldn't be able to speak intelligently to Siri AI directly to my Apple TV and have it understand more than a basic search. That would be great.