We know what next-gen Siri is like supposed work. Apple showed it off in 2024, shot ads, and generally promised that AI would forever change the way we operate our gadgets. And then, well, nothing like that happened. So Apple made a deal: it used Google’s Gemini technology to turn Siri into its promised assistant. This deal is earnest and could change the landscape of the AI race in the future.
ON this episode Vergecast, David and Nilay discuss the news that publishers are suing Google en masse following its ad tech antitrust lawsuit, including Edgeparent company, Vox Media. They then discuss what we know about the Siri-Gemini deal and why some of the details we don’t know yet will prove to be extremely significant. Either way, all of this raises the question of whether Apple has lost the AI wars in a way it will regret, or whether it has simply realized that this battle wasn’t worth fighting. Is Cook Doctrine lesson somewhere here.
If you want to learn more about everything we cover in this episode, here are some links to get you started, first in Google News:
And in the lightning round: