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In Brief Posted: 1:58 PM PDT · August 21, 2026 Lucas Ropek Apple is reportedly cutting hundreds of jobs from Siri, Vision Pro teams Apple is chopping down the team behind the Vision Pro, its long-suffering VR headset , while eliminating positions across a number of other teams, Bloomberg reported . …
… But they looked far more like proof of working features than what Apple showed at WWDC 2024, when the company unveiled Apple Intelligence and a new Siri to the world through slickly produced videos that turned out to be more promise than product. …
… However, because Siri is so deeply integrated throughout the iPhone, accessing it via an app seems somewhat unnecessary. In addition to iOS 27 on iPhone, the upgraded Siri is available across all other Apple products, including iPad, Mac, Apple Watch, CarPlay, AirPods, Apple TV, and Vision Pro. …
Two years and a $250 million lawsuit later, Apple’s AI Siri revamp is on its way to your phones and laptops and even your mixed reality headset , if you happen to be one of like three people who actually uses the Apple Vision Pro. …
… The company’s Vision Pro headset is now priced at $3,699, from its already costly tag of $3,499. “The consumer electronics industry is facing an unprecedented challenge. …
… A new “search within show” feature allows users to search directly through episodes of a specific podcast across iPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple Vision Pro, and the web. …
… The company’s Worldwide Developers conference held earlier this month showed progress on fulfilling those previous AI promises , including an overhaul of Siri. …
… Anthropic warned that systems are advancing so rapidly that they may soon achieve recursive self-improvement RSI , autonomously improving themselves without human intervention. …
… Anthropic, on the other hand, has provided investors a much rosier picture of its financials, saying that it is close to achieving its first quarterly profit. …