
Apple Siri Reborn With Google Gemini: The $1B/Year Deal Behind Apple's AI Agent Comeback
Apple is paying Google roughly $1 billion per year to rebuild Siri on top of Gemini’s foundation models. iOS 26.4 brings on-screen context awareness, multi-step task chains, and conversational memory. This post breaks down what the deal actually includes, what Siri can do now, what got delayed to iOS 26.5 and iOS 27, and why Apple’s privacy architecture matters more than the model powering it.








