I turned off Siri on the Mac years ago and never looked back. Similarly, I found Apple Intelligence so fruitless I never engage with it. But the new Siri AI coming to macOS 27 Golden Gate has at least got me slightly rethinking things. I’m still early in testing Siri AI, as I’ve only had access to it in the macOS 27 developer beta for little more than 24 hours. It’s also in an early preview state on the dev beta, so there should be lots of runway for improvements before it releases later this year. I don’t even know if it’s done indexing my files and folders on our review unit M5 MacBook Air and M5 Max MacBook Pro . Unlike on the iOS 27 dev beta, there’s no “indexing in progress” box in the settings page. I asked Siri if it could tell me, but it told me to click a button in Settings that isn’t there. My colleagues got a headstart testing Siri AI on the iPhone and Apple Watch , and getting a read on its general vibe , and they’ve so far had some positive feedback from using it.…