Why is there a waitlist for Siri AI in iOS 27?

Siri AI brings a lot of improvements, but you might not be able to use it for a while, even with iOS 27 and a compatible device. Why is there a waitlist for Siri AI in iOS 27. Siri AI is the headline feature of iOS 27, but you can’t use it right away.

On iPhone and iPad, the latest updates bring a litany of performance improvements, such as faster app launching and AirDrop transfers, but the headlining feature is undeniably the new Siri AI. Siri AI is a comprehensive overhaul of Apple’s virtual assistant that’s capable of conversational input, similar to modern chatbots like ChatGPT and Gemini. In fact, the new Siri shares many of Gemini’s underpinnings as Apple partnered with Google to build its own semi-custom AI models.

Apple has gone a few steps further to integrate Siri into the OS, giving it access to your emails, messages and other on-device content. With Siri AI getting such a drastic overhaul, you might expect it to be available as soon as you update to iOS 27. That’s not the case — you need to manually enable the feature and join a waitlist for now.

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Here are the 8 most important things to know. Computing I spent two hours with Googlebooks.

Here are the 8 most important things to know Googlebooks have arrived, and there’s quite a lot to like. But Google’s giving it a shot anyway with its Googlebook family.

This is both a new line of products and a fresh operating system, or, as Google would prefer you think of it, an “intelligence system,” in one. And the goals are noble ones — to offer a premium laptop that works with the devices of billions of Android users worldwide and delivers AI features in ways other PCs have yet to offer.

I got to spend a couple of hours trying out the five different Googlebook models that Google is starting out with. These all offer the same software features, which we’ll look at first, but later we’ll check out the different form factors you’ll be able to buy come the start of October.