APPLE'S SIRI AI HANDLES COMPLEX TASKS WITH STRONG SAFEGUARDS
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Apple's updated Siri successfully executes multistep prompts and understands context well, according to hands-on testing by The Verge. The assistant features robust guardrails but operates with less personality than Google's Gemini.
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