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News articleYahoo Finance· January 21, 2026

Apple to Revamp Siri as a Built-In iPhone, Mac Chatbot to Fend Off OpenAI

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Apple to Revamp Siri as a Built-In iPhone, Mac Chatbot to Fend Off OpenAI (Bloomberg) -- Apple Inc. plans to revamp Siri later this year by turning the digital assistant into the company’s first artificial intelligence chatbot, thrusting the iPhone maker into a generative AI race dominated by OpenAI and Google…
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  • The feature is a central piece of Apple's turnaround plan for the AI market, where it has lagged behind Silicon Valley peers

    80% confidence
  • Apple risked falling further behind rivals without its own chatbot

    80% confidence
  • ChatGPT surpassed 800 million weekly active users in October

    80% confidence
  • OpenAI is poised to become more of an Apple competitor

    80% confidence
  • Apple didn't want to send users off into some chat experience in order to get things done

    80% confidence
  • Releasing a chatbot was never the company's goal

    80% confidence

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