Apple Intelligence, Siri and Apple’s AI plans.
Any app can now plug into Siri AI. With the first iOS 27.3 betas on Tuesday, Apple opened a Developer Preview that lets every developer bring their app’s content and actions into its rebuilt assistant, and introduced “skills” that teach Siri AI how to string several of those actions together into one job. Apple says the features reach customers “in a few months”, with App Store submissions opening in the spring.
Any App Store app with an AI companion that “engages a user in sexual or romantic content” will get a minimum 18+ rating under new age-rating rules Apple announced to developers on November 2.
A pet portrait maker, a hair salon tool and a language tutor look harmless in Apple’s and Google’s app stores. According to a report published on Monday by the nonprofit AI Forensics, hundreds of apps like these were fronts for a single operation selling AI “nudify” tools, which turn photos of real people into explicit images and videos without their consent, promoted by tens of thousands of pornographic ads on Facebook and Instagram.
Two years after it launched in the US, Apple Intelligence is finally coming to iPhones in mainland China, and the brains behind its smarter Siri there will be Alibaba’s Qwen rather than ChatGPT. Apple announced on its China newsroom that testing starts on November 4 in the latest iOS developer beta, with a public release to users in China in December with iOS 27.3.
Vibe-coded apps are allowed on both the App Store and Google Play: neither Apple’s App Review Guidelines nor Google Play’s developer policies say anything about how an app’s code was written, so an app built with Claude Code, Codex, Cursor or Google AI Studio is judged exactly like one typed by hand. What gets vibe-coded apps rejected is what the stores have always rejected: apps that are only a website in a wrapper, copies of apps that already exist, apps that crash or need a login nobody gave the reviewer, and apps that download new features after review. Here is what each store’s rules say, what it costs and how to publish.
Apple is putting AI assistants built on its own models and OpenAI’s into Keynote, Pages and Numbers, and opening the three apps to outside AI agents, in a November update to its Apple Creator Studio subscription that it announced on Tuesday.
Apple’s new AI-powered Siri is no longer English-only. With the 27.2 updates for iPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple Watch and Apple Vision Pro released on Monday, Siri AI now works in French, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese and Spanish, opening it up to hundreds of millions of people who couldn’t use it at launch last month.
Perplexity’s AI agent can now do a whole job without your data leaving your Mac. The company launched Computer fully local on Mac on Tuesday, running the AI model, the agent harness that plans and uses tools, and the task itself entirely on the machine. Given permission, it works across local files and Mac apps such as Notes, Messages, Mail and Numbers without sending personal data to the cloud.
Apple has rewritten its App Review Guidelines so that AI image and content creation apps must actively stop people making nonconsensual intimate images, including AI fakes, or risk being thrown off the App Store. The update, published on October 16, also adds a new rule against “bait-and-switch” apps that hide what they can do until after Apple approves them, a tactic Apple says is used to slip “nudification” features past its reviewers.
Meta has released the weights of Muse Spark Open, an 816-billion-parameter AI model it calls the most capable US open-weight model to date, and it worked with long-time rival Apple so the whole thing runs on two Mac Studios on a desk. Anyone can download it free from Hugging Face from today, October 15, though running it at home means about 1TB of memory and a hardware bill well into five figures.
Apple’s new Siri has moved into the living room. The company unveiled HomeView, its first smart display, alongside a new Apple TV 4K and HomePod mini 2, all built around Siri AI, the rebuilt assistant powered by the next generation of Apple Intelligence that reached iPhones with iOS 27 last month.
Apple has signed a deal that lets it hire staff from Huxe, the AI audio startup founded by three former members of Google’s NotebookLM team, and license the startup’s technology. The arrangement, dated June 9, 2026, appears in a European Commission list of deals that big tech “gatekeepers” must report under the EU’s Digital Markets Act. The entry came to light on October 9, and Apple hasn’t announced or commented on the deal.
Apple is going to make it much harder for Mac apps to see everything on your computer, and it is blaming AI agents. In a post for developers on Friday, the company said it will add new controls to Full Disk Access, the macOS setting that lets an app read almost anything on the machine, because some developers are using it “in ways that could put users at risk”.
Apple recently weighed laying off about 5,000 of its AppleCare customer support staff and handing some of their work to AI, Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman reported on Tuesday. The plan has now been put on hold indefinitely.
The Siri AI waitlist on iOS 27 can take anything from a few minutes to several days, and once you’re through, Siri AI still has to download before you can use it. Apple doesn’t give a waitlist time, but most people report getting in within a few hours to two days. Here’s how the Siri AI waitlist works, how to join it, and what to do if you’re stuck on “Joined waitlist.”
Apple finally has a smart Siri. After more than two years of promises, delays and a $250 million lawsuit settlement, “Siri AI” arrived on iPhones on September 14, and the reviews are genuinely good. There’s just one problem: while Apple spent those two years trying to make Siri read your emails, the rest of the tech industry built AI that does your job. Here’s how far behind Apple really is, why it happened, and whether it matters.
When Apple built ChatGPT into Siri, it looked like one of the biggest distribution deals in AI history. OpenAI now says it barely moved the needle. In a court filing in Elon Musk’s antitrust lawsuit, OpenAI says the integration was “dramatically underperforming” within months of launch, and reveals it had asked Apple for exclusivity, which Apple refused, as MacRumors and others have reported after the details were first picked up by the Financial Times.
If you bought a recent iPhone expecting Apple’s smarter, AI-powered Siri, you may be owed some money. The claims website for Apple’s $250 million Siri settlement is now live, and eligible U.S. iPhone owners can file for up to $95 per device. Here’s whether you qualify and how to claim.
