Apple confirms decision that will radically change your iPhone forever

Read the full story | By Rik Henderson — January 13, 2026

Apple and Google issued a joint statement confirming Gemini models and Google cloud tech will bolster Apple’s own Foundation Models, paving the way for a long-delayed, AI-powered Siri to arrive later this year. Apple says Apple Intelligence will still run on-device and via Private Cloud Compute with its privacy standards intact—a move that should help it match rivals on features across iPhone, Mac, and more heading into WWDC.

This consultant advised Big Law at McKinsey. Now Sequoia is backing his AI startup for in-house lawyers.

Read the full story | By Melia Russell — January 13, 2026

Sequoia led a $10 million seed round for Sandstone, a system of record for corporate legal teams that uses AI to draft and review contracts based on a company’s prior deals; CEO Nick Fleisher previously advised elite firms at McKinsey. With dozens of paying mid-market customers, Sandstone aims to centralize workflows across tools like email and Salesforce as legal AI adoption accelerates—betting that in-house teams, not billable-hour firms, will move fastest.

How simple semantics increased our AI citations by 642% [New results]

Read the full story | By Curt del Principe — January 13, 2026

HubSpot reports a 642% surge in AI citations after adding concise “semantic triples” (subject–predicate–object) to key pages as part of a broader answer engine optimization strategy. The team recommends sparing use, answer-first phrasing, and placing triples early in paragraphs—especially in mid- and bottom-funnel content—to boost AI visibility without hurting readability.

LLMs im Unternehmen: Online-Konferenz zu Agentic AI, Self-Hosting und mehr

Read the full story | By Rainald Menge-Sonnentag — January 13, 2026

Heise/iX will host “LLMs im Unternehmen,” an online conference on March 19 covering agentic AI, multimodal extraction, self-hosting, and data protection for enterprise LLMs. Early-bird tickets are available until February 25, with a separate fine-tuning workshop scheduled for October 30.

When shopping stops being a place

Read the full story | By Ana-Maria Stanciuc — January 13, 2026

JD Sports now lets U.S. shoppers search and buy sneakers directly inside ChatGPT, Copilot, and Gemini using commercetools’ Agentic Jumpstart and Stripe’s Agentic Commerce Suite for one-click payments. It signals a shift from browsing to intent-based conversational commerce, raising new challenges for brand control, attribution, and trust as shopping migrates into AI assistants.

Closing thoughts

From Apple’s Gemini-powered Siri to JD Sports’ conversational checkout, AI is moving from experiments to everyday infrastructure. Enterprises are racing to operationalize it—from legal teams adopting system-of-record tools to marketers optimizing content for answer engines—while the ecosystem matures through conferences and best practices. The throughline: winning with AI now depends on trust, data quality, and thoughtful design that meets users where they already are.