In recent weeks, Apple has been unable to escape headlines about its slow progress with everything having to do with Siri and artificial intelligence. The company has officially delayed features first promised last June intended to modernize Siri and give Apple a much-needed boost in the AI race.

Apple says the highly-anticipated AI overhaul that would give Siri to more contextual awareness and get work done across different apps will arrive next year.

Apple will probably not be implementing three new Siri features this year. They will only be partially removed from the website.

Apple Inc.’s top executive overseeing its Siri virtual assistant told staff that delays to key features have been ugly and embarrassing, and a decision to publicly promote the technology before it was ready made matters worse.

Apple CEO Tim Cook said in the spring that his company had all kinds of big AI plans. Many of them have yet to materialize.

Apple is reassuring employees on the Siri team who may be feeling demotivated by the recent Siri delays and the bad press surrounding

OS 19's big redesign can only be good for Apple, but it needs to happen without compromising other updates. And that's especially true of Apple Intelligence.