Ternus pushes Federighi to speed up Apple’s AI
Apple eyes an autonomous, agentic Siri as early as next year
Partly confirmed
The takeaway
Siri chief Mike Rockwell is reported to be considering leaving.
Status
- Claim
Partly confirmed
- Our reporting
- Medium confidence
- Importance
- 3 of 5
- Last verified
- 9 November 2026
Your AI and this story
- GPT-6 Astra192 days after its cutoff
- Claude Opus 5.5131 days after its cutoff
- Gemini 4 Argon222 days after its cutoff
- Grok 4.7161 days after its cutoff
None of these four assistants can know about it. The closest, Claude Opus 5.5, stops 131 days before it.
Key facts
- Ternus held a closed-door meeting with Federighi ‘in the last few weeks’, ‘amid concerns about falling behind rivals’ (Gurman on X, 555k views)
- Goal: ‘move beyond responding to commands to an assistant that can proactively manage tasks and get things done on your behalf’, as early as next year
- Gurman: Apple ‘still lacks’ a computer-use capability comparable to OpenAI’s and Anthropic’s agents
- Mike Rockwell ‘continues to seriously consider leaving his role as Siri chief — or Apple altogether — next year’
- iOS 28 / macOS 28 development is changing: engineers get more time to explore features before locking them in
Sources
4 sources from 3 sites. Numbers match the chips in the text.
4 sources: 4 press
Press
- Bloomberg Power On: Apple explores turning Siri into a ChatGPT Dots-like agent (paywalled)bloomberg.com, press
- Mark Gurman on X: Ternus–Federighi meetingx.com, press
- Mark Gurman on X: agentic Siri as early as next yearx.com, press
- The Verge: Apple is racing to make Siri more agentictheverge.com, press
Changes
- Filed from Gurman’s X posts (news agent)