{"id":177101,"date":"2026-01-12T14:45:00","date_gmt":"2026-01-12T19:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/01\/12\/apple-calls-on-google-to-help-smarten-up-siri-and-bring-other-ai-features-to-iphone\/"},"modified":"2026-01-12T16:40:24","modified_gmt":"2026-01-12T21:40:24","slug":"apple-calls-on-google-to-help-smarten-up-siri-and-bring-other-ai-features-to-iphone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/01\/12\/apple-calls-on-google-to-help-smarten-up-siri-and-bring-other-ai-features-to-iphone\/","title":{"rendered":"Apple calls on Google to help smarten up Siri and bring other AI features to iPhone"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Technology\/wireStory\/apple-calls-google-smarten-siri-bring-ai-features-129141852\">Apple calls on Google to help smarten up Siri and bring other AI features to iPhone<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Technology\/wireStory\/apple-calls-google-smarten-siri-bring-ai-features-129141852\">https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Technology\/wireStory\/apple-calls-google-smarten-siri-bring-ai-features-129141852<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-01-12 14:45:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"abcnews.go.com\">abcnews.go.com<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Apple has partnered with Google to enhance its AI capabilities and introduce new features, including leveraging Google&#8217;s Gemini technology for an AI suite called &#8220;Apple Intelligence.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>The agreement aims to address Apple&#8217;s lag behind competitors like Google and Samsung in AI integration, especially in improving the functionality of its virtual assistant, Siri.<\/li>\n<li>Apple acknowledged last year that its anticipated upgrade for Siri would be delayed until 2026 due to developmental issues.<\/li>\n<li>The partnership marks a significant recognition of Google&#8217;s AI advancements and its Gemini technology, positioning it as a strong competitor against companies like Microsoft&#8217;s GitHub-backed startup OpenAI and its popular chatbot, ChatGPT, which already operates on the iPhone.<\/li>\n<li>Alphabet, Google&#8217;s parent company, has gained market value, surpassing $4 trillion for the first time before settling just below this figure; its market value remains substantially above that of Apple.<\/li>\n<li>Alphabet&#8217;s stock price has surged over 36% since a favorable ruling in a government antitrust case, generating an additional $1.4 trillion in shareholder wealth.<\/li>\n<li>The partnership and the favorable ruling regarding Google&#8217;s search practices have reinforced the ongoing search alliance between Google and Apple, where Google pays Apple over $20 billion annually to be the default search engine on its devices.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Apple calls on Google to help smarten up Siri and bring other AI features to&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":177102,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/i.abcnewsfe.com\/a\/b6495cd0-9b40-4bc4-b557-bfefa5bf0ac5\/wirestory_865dfa575279c292bc729a2dfa4e1583_16x9.jpg?w=1600","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-177101","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177101"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=177101"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177101\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":177103,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177101\/revisions\/177103"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/177102"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=177101"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=177101"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=177101"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}