Apple CEO Ternus presses Federighi to "speed up AI road map"; agentic Siri targeted as soon as next year
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Apple CEO John Ternus held a closed-door meeting in recent weeks with software chief Craig Federighi and pushed him to accelerate Apple's AI road map, Bloomberg's Mark Gurman reported.
In his Nov. 8 Power On newsletter, Gurman said the push was to move beyond Siri improvements (about 2,300 likes). In another post he said Apple is eyeing a proactive, agentic Siri as soon as next year to rival ChatGPT Dots, Meta Muse and Grok, and that OpenAI and Anthropic already have agents that operate software, a gap Apple has yet to close.
The same newsletter said Siri chief Mike Rockwell continues to seriously consider leaving his role next year, and that Apple is changing how it develops iOS 28 to give engineers more time to explore features.
Apple has not commented on the report.
“NEW in Power On: Apple CEO John Ternus held a closed-door meeting with Craig Federighi in the last few weeks, pushing his software chief to accelerate Apple’s AI road ma…”
