Gurman says Apple could make Siri more like an agent as early as next year

Mark Gurman wrote in his Bloomberg Power On newsletter on 8 November 2026 that Apple could make Siri more like an agent as early as next year, according to 9to5Mac and MacRumors. The Bloomberg page did not load for this desk, so every quotation below is text those two articles print. Neither article includes a comment from Apple. Both outlets are relaying the same Gurman newsletter, not independently corroborating the underlying events.

What Gurman reported about Siri

9to5Mac’s Michael Burkhardt and MacRumors’ Joe Rossignol quote the same Gurman passage. He describes Dots, Muse and Grok as pursuing goals across steps without a new user instruction each time. Through those relays, he says he has been told Apple wants Siri to head in that direction; next year’s timing is his own belief, not an announced Apple schedule.

MacRumors adds that if this plan moves forward, the exact implementation remains to be seen.

Ternus and Federighi

In their accounts of Gurman’s newsletter, both relays describe a closed-door meeting in recent weeks between John Ternus and Craig Federighi. 9to5Mac and MacRumors each identify Ternus as Apple’s CEO. 9to5Mac calls Federighi Apple’s software chief. MacRumors calls him Apple’s software engineering chief.

9to5Mac’s account of the meeting, quoting Gurman, says Ternus pressed Federighi for a faster software road map and more ambitious Siri work. It also relays Gurman’s account of Ternus’s frustration with the pace of AI adoption compared with rivals. MacRumors repeats the demand from the same newsletter; neither relay independently establishes the private conversation.

The iOS 28 milestone, via 9to5Mac

According to the Gurman passage printed by 9to5Mac, Apple’s M1 development milestone changed from two equal four-week phases to six weeks for building and exploring features followed by two weeks of convergence. The passage also says employees welcome the extra time to explore ideas before settling them.

In its own sentences, 9to5Mac identifies that cycle as the first cycle of iOS 28 development, and it describes the second stage as integration. The Gurman passage it prints calls that second stage convergence. MacRumors’ article does not mention this milestone.

Why this matters

Gurman’s quoted view is that Siri could move toward the goal-following behavior he attributes to Dots, Muse and Grok. Developers who already expose actions to Siri AI do that through App Intents, which Apple opened to any app in the 27.3 betas, as covered in Apple’s App Intents preview. Dots, one of the agents Gurman named, are the always-on agents with their own cloud computers introduced in OpenAI’s Dots post. Where an Apple Intelligence request runs is the separate question in where an Apple Intelligence request goes, and the Gurman lines quoted here do not say where those agent steps would run.