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How does the new Siri compare to ChatGPT and Gemini right now?

Early hands-on testing, including Engadget's, found real gains — on-screen awareness, personal-data search, app actions — but concluded Siri 'still has a lot to catch up to' against Gemini and ChatGPT. TechCrunch also documented misfires, including one query about Iran news that returned a contacts search instead of an answer.

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