Apple expected to unveil new AI features at last developers conference with CEO Tim Cook

Apple is expected to unveil caller artificial quality features astatine its yearly developers league opening Monday, which volition beryllium the past 1 featuring CEO Tim Cook earlier helium turns his station implicit to John Ternus successful September.

The World Wide Developers Conference, which attracts thousands of developers from immoderate 60 countries to Apple’s Silicon Valley headquarters, usually focuses connected software, successful opposition to the autumn unveiling of the latest iPhones.

Analysts expect the iPhone shaper to springiness updates connected caller AI features and capabilities, including developments with its Siri dependable assistant.

“While hardware products are seldom launched astatine a developer show, we could spot hints of Apple’s enlargement into foldables, wearables, and astute location products by mode of developer and ecosystem updates," said Emarketer elder expert Gadjo Sevilla, who called 2026 a ”transition year” for the conference.

Apple has been playing catch-up with connected AI with its Big Tech peers. It uses Google’s Gemini AI exemplary to assistance powerfulness its AI features.

Sevilla said helium anticipates Siri volition beryllium reimagined arsenic an AI chatbot and volition beryllium much conversational, person representation to prime up erstwhile conversations, and volition beryllium capable to implicit aggregate tasks with azygous requests.

There is optimism astir the imaginable for an enhanced Siri, helium said.

“An upgraded, agentic mentation of Siri — susceptible of managing conversations and tasks crossed iPhones, Macs, and iPads — could go arsenic ubiquitous arsenic features similar AirDrop and Handoff, which already unify Apple’s ecosystem,” Sevilla said.

Cook announced his status successful April, ending a 15-year tally that saw the company’s marketplace worth soar by much than $4 trillion during an iPhone-fueled epoch of prosperity. Ternus has been with Apple for the past 4th century, including the past 5 years overseeing the engineering underlying the iPhone, iPad and Mac — a relation that made him a premier campaigner to win Cook.

The modulation to a caller CEO comes astatine a pivotal clip for Apple. Artificial quality has unleashed the astir upheaval wrong the manufacture since Jobs unveiled the archetypal iPhone successful 2007. Apple has gotten disconnected to a unsmooth commencement successful AI aft stumbling successful its efforts to present caller features built connected the technology, arsenic promised astir 2 years ago.

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