Makes me think of this image (below), which someone posted referencing the AI "financing deals" (that are circular and sending money back and forth between the same entities)
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Apple's New Siri Will Be Powered By Google Gemini
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Makes me think of this image (below), which someone posted referencing the AI "financing deals" (that are circular and sending money back and forth between the same entities)
It’s called a Cartel. This is the way Big Corp skirts around monopoly laws. Think OPEC and Big Oil.
Too often I've found Gemini to incorrect and lost all trust its summaries. Really annoyed Siri will be powered by this crap. Annoyed at Apple too for being too scattered to focus on areas that would enhance the use of their core products like phones and Macs. I'm way too deep into the Apple ecosystem to have jump ship should a competitor come along that beats Apple at what it used to do best (and that's whole other separate debate).
I don’t think Steve is happy or unhappy about anything considering he’s dead.
This reeks of Apple scrambling to get something deliverable next year just to fulfill their promises while still figuring out what to really do with AI…
If Apple pulls off a competent Siri revamp on the back of what investors see as a $1 billion spend, and it pushes up their share price and maybe helps with hardware sales, there's going to be even more pressure on the big AI firms to justify those insane capex figures right now.
That's not the case with these big models. Gemini Pro 2.5 helped me figure out a bug in some of my R code that ChatGPT and Perplexity couldn't help me fix.
I mostly use ChatGPT but Gemini Pro 2.5 is really good and mostly indistinguishable from other models I try.
/This code was for a one time statistical analysis. The analysis was also run independently by another person in SAS. We ended up with the exact same result once I got the bug sorted out with help from Gemini.
It’s been widely reported on just the Open-AI / Oracle / Nvidia circle…(ahem) “club”. 100 billion dollar round robin of investment between these three on a regular basis.
Ignorance. I don't think people take the time to understand how the world around them actually works.
People may be surprised to learn just how much of iCloud data already sits on Google Cloud, alongside AWS. These companies store and process so much of our data already across so many things we do. Their entire business would collapse if they could just access their customers data on demand.
Private Cloud Compute is different (using Apple Hardware + Apple's own stack) inside Apple DCs or Colos.
Either way, this is good news for Siri.
In the article: "The AI model that Google is developing for Apple will run on Apple's Private Cloud Compute servers, so Google will not have access to Apple data."
I swear my grandmother brought that same hat back from an Alaskan cruise once!
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That’s an interesting point, about energy. Haven’t heard Apple talk about ‘environment’ in a while, maybe the data centers they utilize aren’t able to be run on as much renewable energy as they were expecting to use (prior to AI exploding in popularity)
Don't really need AI injected into Siri, just a better memory than Dory.
"Siri, set an urgent reminder called Test for 1pm tomorrow" *
Siri: I have set a reminder for 1pm tomorrow
"Siri, cancel that reminder"
Siri: Which reminder?
I was testing iOS 26.2 beta's new "urgent" reminder feature which sets an alarm. As an aside, the test failed.
Edit: Wow, someone actually read it to the end and realised what a mess I'd made of it 😁
"Siri, set an urgent reminder called Test for 1pm tomorrow" *
Siri: I have set a reminder for 1pm tomorrow
"Siri, cancel that reminder"
Siri: Which reminder?
I was testing iOS 26.2 beta's new "urgent" reminder feature which sets an alarm. As an aside, the test failed.
Edit: Wow, someone actually read it to the end and realised what a mess I'd made of it 😁
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The bar is literally at the floor for Siri right now. They'll pull something off by March that's better than what they have now and buy them enough time to introduce some newer AI features at WWDC26. It's clear the plan is to just keep chipping at this.