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Apple's new Siri, which was just released in iOS 27 and other Apple operating systems, is finally good. My first impressions at least indicate that the LLM (a Google derivative) is now much better at understanding what I mean, and using it feels a bit more like GrokBot or ChatGPT on my phone without the hassle of "onboarding" service providers (Email, Calendar, etc.) because it uses the iPhone’s existing provisioned routes. That’s convenient. But it’s also that convenience that is not compatible with the DMA. If you live in the EU (the European Union), you will not get the new Siri or have access to it because Apple and the European Commission can't agree on terms for the rollout under the Digital Markets Act. Under the DMA, such functionality—accessing the iPhone’s functionality the way the new Siri can—should be made accessible to third parties. Apple's suggestion was to launch its new Siri and have a "Trusted System Agent" in place within 18 months. A...

  The News Google’s rebirth as the AI behemoth it was always meant to be has finally come to fruition. With the release of Gemini 3, Google has made it clear that it can compete with—and even surpass—OpenAI and Anthropic. And now it seems everyone and their mother is shipping AI-enhanced IDEs which, in almost all cases, are forks of VS Code. Google’s offering is no exception: Antigravity—a rather interesting choice of name. The Need I’ve been working on a Node.js–based orchestration framework for AI agents—yes, yet another one, even though there are already countless options out there. I looked, but none really did what I wanted, so I went ahead and built my own, thanks in part to the helping hands of Claude Code (Anthropic). Bottom line: it works fine. There’s still a lot of manual tweaking required, but I was able to achieve things I couldn’t do with plain ChatGPT or Claude alone. However, it lacks a UI. I didn’t even consider building or using one, because I figured I just neede...