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Apple sends nearly 200 Siri engineers for computer refresher training, eight weeks before the WWDC 2026. The company is no longer holding back with its AI team.
The scoop comes from The Information. Most of the Siri team is undergoing internal training to learn coding with AI tools.
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Less than 200 engineers for a several-weeks AI bootcamp
According to information from the American media, approximately 60 members of the Siri core team remain in charge of current development. Another sixty are focused on evaluating performance and ensuring compliance with Apple's security standards. All the others, the majority of the workforce, are going through training for several weeks.
The goal is clear. It is to master the code assistance tools that caught Apple off guard. The main target remains Claude Code, the product from Anthropic that has already won over other internal teams at the company, as well as a large part of the Silicon Valley. Codex, the competing tool from OpenAI, completes the set. These assistants allow an experienced developer to produce significantly more code than with a traditional editor.
The schedule is tight. The WWDC 2026 opens on June 8 and closes four days later. Apple must present the new Siri, long delayed, now built on Google's Gemini models. The function had been announced with great fanfare for iOS 18 in 2024. It never arrived.
While other Apple teams were using Claude Code at full capacity
The internal assessment is severe. Several software divisions of the California-based company have already allocated significant budgets to Claude Code and Codex. The Siri team, on the other hand, carries a reputation for delays, burdened by organizational heaviness that sticks to its skin. The bootcamp resembles an urgent catch-up operation.
John Giannandrea, former head of AI at Apple, completes the acquisition of his shares on April 15 and officially retires this week. He had already left his position at the end of 2025. The duo Craig Federighi and Mike Rockwell now inherits the task of reorganizing the teams.
The contentious issue remains. An team sent to bootcamp two months before the key event can deliver a finished product? Apple is counting on the hundred people still employed to meet the deadlines. No one internally is publicly betting on the schedule's success. And that's because the roadmap now mandates relying on a direct competitor's AI to function. The company led by Tim Cook had positioned its voice assistant as a showcase for its AI shift. It now finds itself subcontracting the most strategic part. The new Siri will indeed arrive on iPhone. The question remains whether he will keep his promises this time.
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