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Key App Developers Have Yet to Embrace Apple’s New Siri A.I.

New York Times — Tech · · International · AI Governance

Apple's new AI-powered Siri features have not yet gained broad adoption among major third-party app developers, whose participation is considered essential for the system to function as Apple intends.

Why this matters: Apple built its AI pitch around Siri reaching into your apps and doing things for you. That only works if the apps cooperate. Right now, many of the developers whose apps people actually use have not signed on. So the features Apple marketed to sell phones may not work in practice for most users. That gap between the pitch and the reality is worth watching, especially as Apple collects more data to power these features.

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