Why did Apple select Gemini for next-gen Siri?

Apple’s next-gen Siri continues to be far off, however this week the corporate introduced that it’ll be using Google’s Gemini AI for its new basis fashions. On this episode, Devindra and Engadget’s Igor Bonifacic focus on why Apple teamed up with Google once more, as an alternative of OpenAI or Anthropic. Additionally, they chat about Meta’s Reality Lab layoffs, which is refocusing the corporate on AI {hardware} like its good glasses.

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Meta publicizes 1000+ layoffs, closes 3 VR studios because it shifts focus to AI {hardware} – 2:12
Gemini can now pull context from the remainder of your Google apps together with pictures and Youtube historical past – 12:31
Framework raises the worth of its desktop by $460 due to the worldwide RAM scarcity – 18:36
NVIDIA might revive the RTX 3060 and kill off 5070 Ti resulting from its VRAM calls for – 21:57
Apple creates a subscription bundle for Professional inventive apps like Remaining Lower Professional, Logic, and others – 23:00
Tesla’s Full Self Driving can be going subscription solely, a yr prices $999 – 29:15
Matthew McConaughey logos himself to combat unauthorized AI likenesses – 33:27
Apple publicizes that its lengthy delayed ’smarter Siri’ might be powered by Google Gemini – 35:15
X lastly responds to Grok’s CSAM and nudity era with limits – 51:46
Cursor claims their AI brokers wrote 1M+ traces of code to make an internet browser from scratch, are builders cooked? – 57:52