APPLE SURRENDERS SIRI TO GOOGLE — WWDC KICKS OFF MONDAY WITH A REBUILT AI ASSISTANT RUNNING ON GEMINI Tim Cook will take the stage Monday morning for his final WWDC keynote, and the most consequential thing he will announce has nothing to do with hardware. Apple is rebuilding Siri from scratch, and the engine running underneath it will not be Apple’s. It will be Google’s. The company has quietly paid Google roughly a billion dollars a year for a custom 1.2 trillion parameter Gemini model to handle Siri’s cloud features. The partnership marks one of the most stunning reversals in Silicon Valley history. Apple spent years insisting it could build its own intelligence stack. It could not, at least not fast enough. The new Siri will arrive as part of iOS 27 alongside a standalone app designed to go head to head with ChatGPT and Claude. Apple is also introducing a system called Extensions that lets users route queries to third party AI services, meaning your iPhone could answer questions through OpenAI, Anthropic, or Google depending on your preferences. This is Tim Cook’s final WWDC as CEO before John Ternus takes over in September. He is leaving the company more dependent on its supposed competitors than it has ever been. The question now is whether users will care, or whether they will simply be glad that Siri finally works. Keywords: Apple WWDC 2026, Siri Google Gemini, iOS 27 AI, Apple Intelligence Extensions