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                Apple's improved and AI-ified Siri is now rumored to arrive in iOS 26.4, scheduled for release this coming spring, following multiple delays. That's some good news for users of the company's devices, but a new report makes an interesting claim about what's going on behind the scenes.
Apple will allegedly use Google Gemini models for the new Siri, but won't tell anyone. Apple is basically paying Google to create a custom Gemini-based model that can run on Apple's private cloud servers to power Siri....            
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