Apple Integrates Google Gemini into Siri for Proactive AI, Launches Manzano Multimodal Model Amid California’s Grok Deepfake Probe and Federal AI Hiring Push
TL;DR
* Apple and Google partner to integrate Gemini AI into Siri, enabling new multimodal features like proactive personal assistance via Gmail, Photos, and YouTube on iOS 26.4 and beyond.
* Apple researchers unveil Manzano, a unified multimodal AI model with hybrid vision tokenizer and diffusion decoder, achieving state-of-the-art performance
