Apple closed the largest AI deal in mass-market consumer hardware: Gemini, Google’s model, will rebuild Siri from scratch in iOS 27. The announcement came at WWDC 2026, Tim Cook’s last keynote as Apple’s CEO, with striking numbers: a custom model with 1.2 trillion parameters at a cost of approximately $1 billion a year.
The decision does not close off the ecosystem. At the same time, Apple presented an Extensions system that, for the first time in iOS history, lets any user choose between Claude, ChatGPT or Gemini for Apple Intelligence features. The three big frontier AI labs on the same device: a shift that moves the field of competition. It is no longer just about being “the model,” but about being the extension the user turns on by default. For Latin America, where the iPhone holds between 30% and 40% of the premium segment in the five largest markets, the concrete effect is that Gemini will arrive as a preinstalled option on millions of devices in fall 2026, while Claude and ChatGPT will be available but will require explicit activation. None of the three models incorporated a regional perspective into its design: the region was not consulted.
Also today
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Pentagon confirms active tests of OpenAI and Google as replacements for Claude in classified systems — 25 Department of Defense users have been testing alternative models since March; talks with Anthropic are suspended due to active litigation and the estimated transition period is six months.
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Colombia: fake AI image of Espriella with Arias circulates 13 days before the runoff — It is the third documented AI deepfake of a candidate in this campaign; the Foreign Ministry rejects foreign interference, but Law 2502 has no active enforcement until July, after the vote.
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EU AI Act: 55 days left until the deadline for high-risk systems — Some 24 providers signed the GPAI Code of Practice; Meta did not sign; xAI signed only the safety chapter. Starting August 2 the European Commission will be able to impose fines.
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Grok 4 postponed until after July 4 — The 1.5-trillion-parameter V9-Medium model “needs one more run” of training on coding tasks; the delay clears June for the announcement of Gemini 3.5 Pro and possibly Claude Sonnet 4.8.
In the region
Colombia is 13 days away from its presidential runoff (June 21) with the third documented AI deepfake of a candidate in the same campaign. The fake image of Espriella alongside Arias (designed to erode his image among center-right voters) adds to an earlier poll bearing the Gemini logo and to emotional AI-generated campaign videos. The Foreign Ministry rejected foreign interference, but without technical and legal instruments to act quickly. The contrast with Brazil is the sharpest in the region: that country approved PL 2338 on May 27 and its Superior Electoral Court has five active measures for the October elections. Colombia votes without that scaffolding. In Europe, meanwhile, the AI Act clock shows 55 days until the obligations for high-risk systems take effect with real power to fine.
Launches
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iOS 27 Developer Beta 1 — Siri with Gemini and multi-model Extensions — The first mainstream mobile operating system with native AI model selection. Available starting today for registered developers; the public version is expected in the fall.
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grok-imagine-video-1.5-preview — A new image-to-video model from xAI, up to 720p, with motion control described in natural language. Accessible directly via API and without a premium subscription, which makes it a low-cost option for experimenting with video generation.
Threads we’re following
The story of Colombia and electoral deepfakes has been on this blog for weeks. Since late May we have documented that Law 2502 was approved without operational enforcement mechanisms for the electoral period: a clock that keeps ticking. Today that scenario is confirmed with a third documented deepfake, 13 days before the vote. The next chapter is the June 21 runoff, which will be one of the most concrete cases the region has on whether it is possible to defend a presidential election from generative AI without effective regulation in place.
If Apple decided to pay $1 billion a year to put Gemini at the core of Siri and still opened the door to Claude and ChatGPT, are we seeing the end of the race to be “the model” and the start of the race to be “the preferred extension”? And what does that mean for the 400 million users in Latin America who are unlikely to pay for a premium subscription to any of the three?
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Doble Click is written with Anthropic models.