TECH NEWS – The Cupertino giant seems to be pushing its employees toward heavier AI integration in their workflows.

In recent weeks, global procurement teams working in Apple’s business development division have received a daily token allowance worth $300 for using Claude AI. Approval of additional token requests is increasingly tied to a team’s overall AI usage, meaning Apple teams that significantly underuse their daily token budget are seeing their requests denied more often. To put that daily allowance into perspective, Anthropic says Claude Code generally costs around $100-$200 per developer per month on Sonnet 4.6. That suggests Apple is indeed doubling down on AI use across internal workflows in an effort to raise team productivity.

A friend at Apple told me that over the past couple weeks, their team got access to Claude with a $300/day token budget.

This is global sourcing on the business side, not engineering.

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Apple’s consumer-facing AI strategy also appears to be ramping up soon. The revamped Siri chatbot is expected to run on Google’s own TPUs and cloud infrastructure, though Apple will retain ownership. The company stresses that the arrangement will not change Apple’s strict privacy safeguards. Bloomberg editor Mark Gurman previously said the Siri chatbot will be integrated into Apple’s software, allowing it to use personal data, perform in-app actions, search the web, generate content, including images, assist with coding, summarize and analyze information, and upload files.

Apple is also reportedly developing a feature that would let the Siri chatbot see open windows and on-screen content, while also enabling it to modify device settings and functions and handle more complex prompts that combine multiple commands in one request. Siri is said to be using a much more advanced version of Google’s Gemini model, internally referred to as Apple Foundation Models version 11. According to Gurman, that model is expected to compete with Gemini 3 and be significantly more capable than the model powering the reworked Siri now.

Siri will no longer be accessible exclusively through voice commands. Instead, Apple is expected to debut a dedicated Siri app with iOS 27, acting as a central repository for all previous conversations with the AI assistant. The app will include an Extensions feature that connects seamlessly to third-party agents such as OpenAI ChatGPT and Anthropic Claude, allowing Siri to leverage their capabilities. The App Store is also expected to include a dedicated Extensions section where users can install supported third-party agents.

Although users will still be able to activate Siri with voice commands or the power button, Apple is currently testing a new interface housed within the Dynamic Island. Ultimately, Apple wants to replace Spotlight search with Siri, creating a unified search UI. That new search interface would still display Siri suggestions spanning apps, upcoming meetings, and AI-recommended setting changes.

Source: WCCFTech, Intuition Labs