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Apple HomePod 3: Apple’s Next Smart Speaker Might Finally Put Siri on Display 🚀

Apple HomePod 3: Apple’s Next Smart Speaker Might Finally Put Siri on Display 🚀

A Big Comeback: HomePod’s Evolution and the Road to HomePod 3 Apple’s HomePod journey has been bumpy. The original HomePod (2018) wowed with its audio quality but lagged in smarts, as Siri was notably less intelligent than Amazon’s Alexa or Google Assistant macrumors.com. Apple even discontinued the full-size HomePod in 2021 amid slow sales macrumors.com, focusing on the smaller HomePod mini (2020). Then, somewhat surprisingly, Apple revived the big HomePod in 2023 with a second-gen model that tweaked the design and internals but remained screen-less macrumors.com. Now, over two years later, Apple appears poised to reinvent the HomePod concept with a third generation that’s much more than a speaker. According
4 September 2025
AI Assistant Showdown: ChatGPT vs Siri vs Alexa – Inside the 2025 Personal AI Revolution

AI Assistant Showdown: ChatGPT vs Siri vs Alexa – Inside the 2025 Personal AI Revolution

Siri debuted in 2011 on the iPhone 4S as the first widely used voice assistant. Alexa launched in 2014 with the Echo, popularizing voice-controlled smart home devices. ChatGPT, built on GPT-4, launched in late 2022 and reached 100 million users by January 2023. Google introduced Gemini in 2024 as a major overhaul of its AI assistant, with multi-turn reasoning and deep Android integration, and by July 2025 Gemini could proactively interface with apps like Gmail and WhatsApp. Microsoft rolled out 365 Copilot and Windows Copilot in 2023, embedding GPT-powered copilots in Word, Excel, Outlook, PowerPoint, and Windows, with 365 Copilot
27 July 2025
Apple Eyes Anthropic Claude and OpenAI GPT to Reinvent Siri: Inside the Negotiations, Delays, and High-Stakes AI Gamble

Apple Eyes Anthropic Claude and OpenAI GPT to Reinvent Siri: Inside the Negotiations, Delays, and High-Stakes AI Gamble

Apple is negotiating with Anthropic and OpenAI to license their large-language models to power a major Siri upgrade, signaling a shift away from Apple’s traditional in-house AI development. The talks include training versions of these models to run on Apple-owned private cloud infrastructure for internal testing. If finalized, the plan would replace Apple’s own Foundation Models, marking a significant strategic pivot. Siri’s generative makeover was delayed from an early-2025 debut to the 2026 iOS 19 cycle, with Tim Cook reportedly losing confidence in AI chief John Giannandrea as Mike Rockwell took over leadership. Anthropic’s Claude 3+ emerged as the best
30 June 2025
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