Apple wants Siri to behave more like an always-on AI agent next year, according to reporter Mark Gurman.
Gurman named two products Apple has in its sights: Dots and Muse. Both are described as always-on agents, and the stated goal is for Siri to take them on directly. Two terms need unpacking. "Agentic" software carries out multi-step tasks on your behalf instead of answering one question at a time. "Always-on" means it runs continuously in the background rather than waiting to be summoned.
That is the extent of what is public. The reporting does not say which features Apple has in mind, which devices would get them, or how the agents would work.
One reading, and it is only a reading: Siri has long worked as a request-and-response assistant, so naming agent products as rivals suggests Apple expects to be compared with them, not just with other voice assistants.
An assistant that is always running also raises a question Apple will have to answer. How much of that work happens on the device, and how much leaves it, matters for a company that sells privacy as a feature.