Apple May Ship Agentic Siri 'As Early as Next Year': Gurman

Apple could make Siri "more like an agent as early as next year," Bloomberg's Mark Gurman wrote in his Power On newsletter, 9to5Mac reports. The piece, by Michael Burkhardt, opens by noting Apple "finally shipped its long awaited personalized Siri with iOS 27," delivering on promises first set out in 2024.

Gurman's framing in Power On, quoted in the article: "Dots, Muse and Grok can keep track of goals, determine what needs to happen next and continue pursuing objectives without the user initiating every individual step. Apple ultimately wants to go in this direction, I'm told, and I believe the company could make Siri more like an agent as early as next year — not that it has much of a choice, given current consumer and market demands."

9to5Mac also surfaces a process change for iOS 28's M1 milestone. "Instead of the normal split between two four-week efforts, Apple engineers were tasked with six weeks of coding, exploration and feature development, and then only two weeks of convergence." Employees, per Gurman, "like the change, indicating that it creates more time for coming up with ideas and exploring them before needing to lock things in."

The article names no Apple executives. It lands amid a busy run of Apple coverage on our tracker over the past 90 days.