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has one heck of a mulligan coming ahead of its 50th anniversary in 2026.

After failing on its promise to launch an artificial intelligence-supercharged version of Siri in March, Apple said it’s on track to make it happen in the new year.

The stakes are enormous.

Apple’s AI failure this year put even more pressure on it to deliver a breakthrough AI experience on the iPhone. Another whiff like that will only cement the idea that Apple is woefully behind its peers in AI and risk losing control over the next major computing platform to a rival like Google