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Apple might be dropping own AI, integrating Anthropic or OpenAI instead

Apple is considering partnering with Anthropic of OpenAI for it's LLM-based Siri in 2026.
Siri might be getting smarter, with a little outside help. (Picture: Apple)
Bloomberg reports that the iPhone company is considering opting out of using its homegrown LLM for future versions of the chatbot Siri.

They have instead asked Anthropic and OpenAI to train some of their models on their Private Cloud Compute servers.

The Samsung model
This mirrors Samsung’s approach to integrating Large Language Models in its Galaxy phones, where they have some in-house, lower level AI doing the legwork and passing the rest off to Google’s Gemini, writes Engadget.

According to Bloomberg, Apple has recently focused on Anthropic as the most promising LLM, being more compatible with Apple servers and offering the best experience.

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A facelift, and some actually useful AI features from Apple at WWDC

All Apple software is getting a facelift - and some useful features.
Some cosmetics for iOS 26, and some standout, actually useful features, too. (Picture: Apple)
Yes, Apple held its developer conference and traditional keynote to announce new software yesterday. It’s hard to miss.

It debuted a new user interface across its systems, and launched a whole suite of «Apple Intelligence» features.

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Jony Ive joins OpenAI on breakthrough hardware project

Jony Ive and Sam Altman are teaming up for a great hardware challenge.
The Apple design guru is teaming up with OpenAI to solve a great challenge. (Picture: OpenAI)
He has been working with the company for eighteen months on the frontier of modern hardware design; the standalone AI product.

Citing significant progress already done, Sam Altman says «I think it is the coolest piece of technology that the world will have ever seen,» according to The Washington Post.

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Apple reportedly has ChatGPT-level AI for Siri in the works

Apple might improve with its own LLM chatbot, says reports.
Apple is still playing catch-up in the LLM market, but that may change soon, according to recent reports. (Picture: Apple)
In an article mainly about how Apple got AI and LLMs so wrong, Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman, a noted Apple-watcher, also notes a few things it’s getting right.

One of those is the significant progress it is having during testing of an AI chatbot version of Apple’s personal Siri assistant, developed by a team in Zurich.

MacRumors reports that Apple is testing a completely new architecture — not the current patchwork Siri that punts to ChatGPT — but a standalone LLM designed to eventually replace Siri outright.

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Apple says considering AI search in Safari, but «not good enough yet»

Apple is considering revamping search in Safari to become more AI-focused.
Apple is considering revamping search in Safari to become more AI-focused. (Picture: Kārlis Dambrāns, CC BY 2.0)
In the Google antitrust remedies trial, Apple’s senior vice president of services, Eddy Cue, said they are «actively looking at» using AI search tools in Safari, writes Gizmodo.

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Clarifying Apple’s tariff exposure

Apple still faces hefty tariffs on its products, despite being exempted from the worst.
Apple still faces hefty tariffs on its products, despite being exempted from the worst. (Picture: Apple)
When Apple’s Tim Cook said tariffs would cost $900 million this quarter, it brought on some confusion. Weren’t Apple devices exempted, after all?

With the 145% tariffs imposed on goods imported from China, Apple was facing steep cost increases and would likely have had to drastically increase prices on its product offerings.

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iPhone prices set to skyrocket with new tariffs

Apple’s iPhone 16 Pro Max will cost $2,300 if we factor in the tariffs. (Picture: Apple)
Apple’s iPhone 16 Pro Max will cost $2,300 if we factor in the recent tariffs. (Picture: Apple)
Update: After significant uproar in the markets, Trump has said he would excempt tariffs for phones, computers and chip imports from China, CNBC reports, but Apple is still paying many other tariffs.

A brand new iPhone 16 Pro Max could set you back $2,300, Rosenblatt Securities analysts say to Reuters, who are factoring in a 43% price hike to offset the new tariffs on the countries that produce them.

The cheapest iPhone, the 16e, would go from $599 to just over $850, if Apple doesn’t decide to eat up the tariffs themselves, according to MacRumors.

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Iphone 15 Pro kan bli en spillkonsoll i toppskiktet

iPhone 15 Pro kan enklere kobles til TVen, og kan fungere som en meget habil spillkonsoll. (Bilde: Apple.)
Iphone 15 hade vært en superdatamskin hvis den kom på 90-tallet, og har vært 5 000 ganger raskere enn en Cray-maskin fra 80-tallet siden iPhone 12.

Pro-versjonen kan dessuten gjøre en mer enn hederlig innsats som spillkonsoll, takket være 20 prosent bedre grafikkytelse, støtte for strålesporing, spillkontrollere med bluetooth og den nye USB-C-tilkoblingen.

Sistnevnte gjør det mulig å koble til en PC- eller TV-skjerm for å speile iPhonen, opp til 4K i 60Hz.

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Den lysende MacBook-logoen kan være på vei tilbake

Baklyset kan være på vei tilbake til bærbare Macer.
Det ikoniske baklyset kan gjøre en retur til Apples MacBooker, i følge nytt patent (Bilde: Azamat Bohed, (CC BY 2.0))
En ny patentsøknad fra Apple kan tyde på at selskapet i hvert fall vurderer å slå på lyset igjen i logoen på baksiden av MacBooken.

Tydelig signal om at det var en Mac
Før i tiden kunne man se disse lysende bærbare maskinene over alt, fra kafeer til kaffesjapper til biblioteker og forelsesningssaler.
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Noen tanker om iPhone SE 2022

iPhone SE 2022 har prosessoren til en iPhone 13 Pro/iPhone 14 til under halve prisen, og er perfekt for deg som oppgraderer fra en eldre telefon, elller ønsker noe mer håndterbart etter å ha brukt megamobilene til Apple en stund.

Samtidig er det en telefon som er bygget for å vare; en egenskap mange ikke tenker på mens de jakter de siste toppmodellene.

Denne mobilen er minst like kjapp, eller kjappere enn en vanlig iPhone 14, har lynrask fingeravtrykkleser, tar ålreite bilder, og går runder rundt det meste på Android, om enn med en “gammeldags” design.
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Neste iPhone kan få aktiv låseskjerm

Låseskjermen på neste iPhone kan bli ny - men for Pro og Pro Max.
Låseskjermen på neste iPhone kan bli ny – men for Pro og Pro Max. (Bilde: Apple.)
Det er en uke igjen til Apples utviklerkonferanse, og med det kommer det nye rykter fra vanligvis pålitelige Mark Gurman.

Det mest oppsiktsvekkende han hevder i det siste nyhetsbrevet sitt, er at iOS 16 vil inkludere en “alltid på” låseskjerm – som skal debutere med iPhone 14.

Alltid på
Denne skjermen skal ha aktive bakgrunnsbilder med “widget”-aktige funksjoner, så det skal være mulig å interagere med skjermen også når den er låst.

Dette ble også hevdet om iPhone 13, i følge MacRumors, men låseskjermen kom ikke med i de siste konfigurasjonene.

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