Apple Preparing New 'Gen AI' Website Ahead of WWDC — and New AI Features?

Apple just registered a new subdomain record: genai.apple.com.

The domain was spotted by a MacRumors contributing researcher, and though it doesn't yet lead to a live web page, they believe it's tied to Apple's annual developers conference WWDC which starts June 8, "where the company has promised to announce 'AI advancements' across its software platforms."

The blog 9to5Mac speculates that "All signs point to WWDC 2026 being Apple's major AI renaissance, where the company will live up to the promises it made back at WWDC 2024, as well as a few additional new announcements." [I]it goes without saying that this is probably related to Apple's upcoming generative AI announcements at WWDC... Siri should finally be able to understand more personal context, have on screen awareness, and be able to take action in apps for you. This'll finally be made possible thanks to Apple's new partnership with Google, where Apple will be using Gemini-diffused models hosted on Private Cloud Compute to power Siri... Apple will also reportedly be introducing a new Siri app. This'll allow you to access your previous Siri conversations, as well as have text-based conversations with Siri.

Other Apple Intelligence upgrades coming at WWDC 2026 include the ability to generate wallet passes from physical tickets, new editing features in the Photos app, and additional functionality for Visual Intelligence...

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[drnb]

What Would Woz do.

Quietly focus on the things that work, that customers prefer, and pay the bills for Apple. Eventually fix the visionary products that the market is not embracing as expected, introducing to these new products the concepts he championed and the visionaries reject, and sitting back and watching these updated products go from unprofitable to profitable as a result.

Re:WWWD

[Misagon]

Laugh and say that we should use our Actual Intelligence.

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[NoMoreACs]

Laugh and say that we should use our Actual Intelligence.

Exactly!

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[drnb]

Better local on your phone than in a data center.

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[NoMoreACs]

Better local on your phone than in a data center.

Indeed!

And Apple said that even the Gemini Models that they do want to use for more advanced Models will actually be run on Apple’s “Deliberately Forgetful” AI Private Cloud Compute Servers.

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[drnb]

There is an app you don't download for that

Registered a subdomain?

[Sethra]

Since when did anyone have to register a subdomain?

Catch-up?

[larryjoe]

"Siri should finally be able to understand more personal context, have on screen awareness, and be able to take action in apps for you. This'll finally be made possible thanks to Apple's new partnership with Google, where Apple will be using Gemini-diffused models hosted on Private Cloud Compute to power Siri"

So, basically Apple is marketing existing tools as Apple and Siri? The good thing about selling AI is that most consumers don't understand what's happening underneath the chatbot interface, so Apple c

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[NoMoreACs]

"Siri should finally be able to understand more personal context, have on screen awareness, and be able to take action in apps for you. This'll finally be made possible thanks to Apple's new partnership with Google, where Apple will be using Gemini-diffused models hosted on Private Cloud Compute to power Siri"

So, basically Apple is marketing existing tools as Apple and Siri? The good thing about selling AI is that most consumers don't understand what's happening underneath the chatbot interface, so Apple can claim to be making AI innovations, and some people will believe it.

Apple has so far been quite forthcoming regarding their in-house vs. Collaborative AI Solutions.