We dive into our initial thoughts on Siri AI and Tim Cook's legacy. Executive editor Cherlynn Low is joined by tech editor Daniel Howley, senior staff writer Brenda Stolyar and Judner Aura (also known as uravgconsumer) on this special episode of the Engadget Podcast. The four talk about what really mattered at WWDC 2026, the delayed gratification of Siri AI as well as what it all means for Tim Cook's legacy.

It's an interim measure while the European Commission investigates the ban. The European Union has ordered Meta to open WhatsApp to AI chatbots from rival companies again, for free, as it investigates the messaging app's owner over potential antitrust violations. Meta introduced a new policy in October 2025 that banned third-party AI chatbots from the WhatsApp for Business API, making Meta AI the only chatbot that can access the service. Before the ban, companies could send notifications through WhatsApp, such as order alerts, using other AI assistants. EU officials opened an antitrust investigation into the new policy in December and then warned the company earlier this year that it can take interim measures against it. In its announcement, the commission explained that Meta has held a dominant position in the European messaging app market since at least 2023.

Anthropic's Fable AI brings the capabilities of its unreleased Mythos model to regular users Anthropic's Fable AI brings the capabilities of its unreleased Mythos model to regular users Claude subscribers can try the model until June 22 without spending usage credits. Anthropic has just announced Fable, the start of a new family of models that brings many of the capabilities of its Mythos system to the public. As a refresher, Mythos is the state-of-the-art model Anthropic debuted at the start of April through Project Glasswing . The project saw Anthropic share access to the model with select partners, including Apple and NVIDIA, with the aim of helping those organizations harden their software against AI cyberattacks. Glasswing also prompted the White House to rethink its policy on AI regulation .

Siri AI first look: How Apple's rebuilt AI-powered assistant behaves across iPhone, iPad and Mac Siri AI first look: How Apple's rebuilt AI-powered assistant behaves across iPhone, iPad and Mac A quick preview of what's to come this fall. The biggest news out of WWDC 2026 was, as widely rumored, the next generation of Siri. Called Siri AI, the AI-boosted assistant will be infused into lots of Apple products like the iPhone, iPad and Mac. You can sign up to get early access to the new Siri AI to get a feel for how it behaves. But since I've already had the opportunity to check out some demos here at Apple Park after the keynote ended, I figured I'd preview it for those of you who don't want to go through the hassle of beta software.

It's called and it was revealed at the latest Nintendo Direct livestream . We even got a juicy trailer with plenty of gameplay and a detailed look at the world. To that end, it looks like a brand new story in a brand new world. We don't know too much about this story, other than that the protagonist is enrolled in some type of magic school (which reminds me of .) Nintendo promises more details on as we get closer to 2027.

We got a short trailer with no real gameplay at the latest Nintendo Direct. Nintendo just officially announced a remake of, ending months of rumors and speculation . The company dropped a short trailer at today's Nintendo Direct livestream and this looks like a top-to-bottom remake with a massive graphical facelift. The game launches later this year for Switch 2, with more details to come. There's still a lot we don't know, including price and if there will be any new content.

And we answer some listener questions. Siri AI was the star of the show, of course, and we chat about how it differs from all of the other AI tools out there. Also, we dive into Apple's progress around child safety, as well as speed improvements coming to all of its platforms.

The'disappearing into the bushes like Homer Simpson' strategy is a bold choice. Only a day after a dormant bit of code that seemed to be a facial recognition algorithm was discovered in a companion app for its smart glasses, Meta released an update which removed that code, Wired reported. The publication had first uncovered the suspicious code, internally dubbed Name Tag within Meta, while reviewing code for a Meta AI app which handles some core features of the glasses. In other words, the same app necessary for pairing Meta smart glasses to a user's phone over Bluetooth was also ready to start harvesting every face a user passed by while wearing them. It contained algorithms which would have converted photos of faces into biometric identifiers stored on-device and cross referenced with each new facial scan.

We expect it to leak so we're just announcing it. Exactly a week after Anthropic announced its plan to go public, OpenAI has followed suit. The company said on Monday that it confidentially submitted a S-1 form with the Securities and Exchange Commission. No date or offer price has been set by OpenAI yet for the initial public offering. We recently submitted a confidential S-1. We expect it to leak so we're just announcing it.

The subscription now starts at $5 per month. Google is lowering the cost of its cheapest AI subscription to make Gemini models even easier to access. The Google AI Plus plan will now cost $5 per month, according to a post from Vikas Kansal, the company's Product Lead focused on Gemini AI subscriptions, down from its original $8 per month price. It now also comes with double the storage, 400GB instead of 200GB. The subscription plan became available in January 2026 as a cheaper way to access Google's Gemini 3 Pro model, Nano Banana Pro and Deep Research.