AI’s new phase: Siri, agents, and regulation

AI just took a sharp turn: Apple rebuilt Siri with Gemini, Microsoft is shipping its own MAI models, and regulators are days away from real enforcement. Here are the must-know moves from the last few days.^[18]

Apple's big reveal: a Gemini-powered Siri now lets users pick ChatGPT, Gemini, or Claude in Apple Intelligence, with Gemini set as the default. That turns iPhone into a multi-model AI front door.^[18]

Microsoft doubled down too: Build 2026 added MAI-Voice-2, MAI-Image-2.5, and MAI-Transcribe-1.5, while Foundry now spans 11,000+ models. The message is clear: enterprise AI is becoming a platform war.^[19][18]

Google’s latest push is even more agentic: Gemini 3.5 Flash, Gemini Spark, and Antigravity 2.0 are rolling out, with Flash said to be 4x faster than other frontier models. Faster AI is now also the helper that acts for you.^[24]

Meanwhile, the policy clock is ticking: Colorado’s AI Act takes effect June 30, and the bulk of the EU AI Act follows on August 2. AI teams shipping into the real world can’t treat compliance as a later problem anymore.^[18][27]