--- title: Siri AI could come with a paywall for power users description: Apple CEO Tim Cook, in his final earnings call, hinted that the upcoming Siri AI upgrade may include a paywall for heavy users, with additional compute... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/siri-ai-could-come-with-a-paywall-for-power-users-mbmd2zmrf twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Siri AI could come with a paywall for power users | daily.dev og:description: Apple CEO Tim Cook, in his final earnings call, hinted that the upcoming Siri AI upgrade may include a paywall for heavy users, with additional compute... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/siri-ai-could-come-with-a-paywall-for-power-users-mbmd2zmrf og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/mBMd2zMrF.png og:image:alt: Siri AI could come with a paywall for power users og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Siri AI could come with a paywall for power users **[TechCrunch](https://daily.dev/sources/tc)** · 2 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary Apple CEO Tim Cook, in his final earnings call, hinted that the upcoming Siri AI upgrade may include a paywall for heavy users, with additional compute purchasable through iCloud+ subscriptions. The revamped Siri AI is currently in iOS 27 beta and is expected to roll out broadly this fall. Apple has faced significant delays in its AI assistant efforts, including licensing a custom Gemini model from Google and paying $250 million to settle a lawsuit over marketed-but-undelivered AI features. The company also faces hardware supply constraints due to an industry-wide RAM shortage, having already raised prices on Macs and iPads. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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