By Webb Wright
Publication Date: 2026-06-08 19:55:00
Apple just wrapped up the opening keynote of its annual Worldwide Developer Conference (WWDC), and as expected, AI was a major focus.
At the heart of Apple’s AI news was what it described as “a big step forward” for Apple Intelligence, the company’s suite of on-device AI features first unveiled in 2024. Speaking via a livestream of the keynote, Apple senior vice president of software engineering Craig Federighi said Apple Intelligence had been upgraded with a “bold new architecture,” making apps “smarter and more useful,” including a revamped Safari and a long-awaited Siri upgrade called Siri AI.
Federighi said that the new architecture is powered by foundation models codeveloped by Apple and Google, via the company’s strategic partnership, which kicked off in January. Those models can run directly from Apple devices as well as from private cloud servers, Federighi noted, and unlock “a huge upgrade for Apple intelligence, with state-of-the-art…
