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Today’s Recipes:
🍎 Siri Could Track Goals and Finish Tasks Alone...
🛒 You Can Now Text Alexa to Shop
💳 Galaxy AI Could Soon Come With a Price Tag
A New AI Spots PTSD Risk Early
Amazon Tries Robots Again
Grok Users Push Back on New Limits
AI Tutorial of the Day
And More….
LATEST DEVELOPMENTS
Apple’s new CEO John Ternus is pushing to turn Siri into a true AI agent that works on tasks without step-by-step prompts, possibly as early as next year, per Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman.
Details:
What’s reported: In his Power On newsletter on November 8, Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman said Apple CEO John Ternus is pressing software chief Craig Federighi to take a bolder approach to AI and turn Siri into an autonomous agent.
From assistant to agent: Today’s Siri does a task when you ask and then stops. Apple wants Siri to track goals and keep working without you starting every step, like OpenAI’s Dots, Meta’s Muse and Grok.
Timeline: Gurman says Apple ultimately wants to go in this direction and believes Siri could become more agent-like as early as next year. Apple hasn’t announced anything yet.
Where Siri is today: The personalized Siri AI launched with iOS 27 in September. The iOS 27.3 beta now lets Siri control Apple’s own apps and lets any developer plug their app’s actions into Siri.
Faster development: Apple is also changing how it builds iOS 28, giving more time to coding in each cycle, likely thanks to better AI coding tools.
Leadership questions: Federighi now leads Apple’s AI efforts but is still seen as an AI skeptic, and Siri AI lead Mike Rockwell is reportedly considering stepping down.
Takeaway: Apple finally caught up on a smarter Siri, but rivals have already moved on to agents. With iOS, App Intents and billions of devices, Apple has a big advantage if it can move fast enough to use it.
Amazon now lets select US customers text Alexa for Shopping to search, compare and buy products. It learns your preferences and can buy when prices drop. Wider US rollout in coming weeks.
Details:
What launched: On November 6, Amazon began letting a small group of invited US customers text Alexa for Shopping, its AI shopping agent. It will roll out to millions more customers in the coming weeks.
How to start: Invited users get a text, accept the terms and link their phone number. The agent then appears as a contact called “Alexa Shopping.” Others can sign up on Amazon’s landing page to get an invite.
What you can text: You can send a shopping list, a photo of a recipe or outfit, or a quick “I’m out of dog food.” It can also reorder past items, compare products, show a year of price history and track packages.
It acts for you: Alexa for Shopping can build your cart and complete purchases, or buy automatically when a price hits your target. It also finds products from other stores across the web through Shop Direct.
Learns your habits: It remembers preferences like “only show me organic options” or that you’re training for a marathon, and uses them in future suggestions.
One conversation everywhere: A chat started by text continues in the Amazon app, on Amazon.com and on Alexa devices. Order updates and deals will also show up in the same text thread over time.
Growing fast: More than 400 million customers used Alexa for Shopping in the last 12 months, and use of its agent features has grown more than 8x since the start of the year.
Takeaway: Amazon is making shopping as easy as texting a friend. By putting its agent in your messages app, it wants to be the first place you go to buy anything, before other AI agents get the chance.
Samsung is reportedly testing Galaxy AI Premium at $4.99/month, adding AI video, Bixby Action and 4x higher limits. Samsung promised 19 core Galaxy AI features would stay free.
Details:
What’s reported: SammyGuru found evidence of a “Galaxy AI Premium” subscription that Samsung appears ready to launch in early access soon. Samsung hasn’t officially announced it.
New paid features: Premium reportedly adds Gen Video (turn your photos into AI videos), Bixby Action (automate tasks across your apps) and Daily Briefing. It also gives 4x higher usage limits on existing AI tools.
Price: Code found in the app suggests $4.99 per month or $47.99 per year. It may be exclusive to the Galaxy S27 series at first.
Free features stay free: Samsung has promised that Galaxy AI features that come on your phone by default will always be free. That list of 19 includes Live Translate, Writing Assist, Note Assist, Audio Eraser, AI Select and Now Brief.
The catch: Free tools may get usage limits, and you’d pay to raise them, which could make the free experience feel worse.
User reaction: Early reactions on Reddit are mostly negative, with many saying none of the AI features are worth paying for.
Takeaway: Phone makers are starting to charge for AI. Samsung’s core features stay free for now, but usage limits are becoming the new way to push people toward paying.
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