Apple AI chief John Giannandrea is retiring in spring 2026

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I know one feature Siri has added in the past fifteen years, because I always complained that Siri couldn't "text this photo to my wife." I would demonstrate to people that this doesn't work, complain about the lack of discoverability, and mention how with each new release of iOS I would try it again to confirm it still didn't work.

Then one time, in a job interview of all things, (I'm a PM and was asked for an example of a product I liked or didn't like) I went into this spiel, and what do you know, Siri texted the photo to my wife. :-)

So somewhere along the way they did add that feature, and apparently I didn't realize I had missed checking for it.

Siri is doomed by Apple global strategy. Even if they really make it to work, it would work only in a few selected languages which is a parody of AI these days. They are living in 90s when only a few languages were important

Rather have dumb Siri than bullshit machine Siri. Glad they scrapped most of it but they shouldn't have ever even launched notification summaries.

TIL Apple has an AI Chief

Source: https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2025/12/john-giannandrea-to-r... (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46114122)

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