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Apple and Google Agree to Test Gemini Model for Siri
“The company's reached a formal agreement this week for Apple to evaluate and test a Google developed AI model to help power the voice assistant.”
Alex Kantrowitz Sep 8, 2025 ▶ 2:41 Google’s Best Week Ever, AI’s Rising Costs, Putin and Xi’s Immortality Quest
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Kantrowitz: Apple reassigned Vision Pro lead Mike Rockwell to fix Siri
“They put the person on Vision Pro on Siri and he fixed it. Wait, Mike Rockwell.”
Alex Kantrowitz Jun 26, 2026 ▶ 1:32:28 Big Technology AI Summit (full): Greg Brockman, Mike Krieger, Aaron Levie & Friends of The Podcast
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Apple grew iPhone sales 21 percent to $111 billion without AI
“They, let me just say they had iPhone sales grow 21.7%. They don't have AI on the iPhone. Siri sucks. It's just the counterpoint to what we've been saying. They had quarterly sales of a 101 hundred and eleven billion.”
Alex Kantrowitz May 4, 2026 ▶ 47:53 OpenAI’s User Growth Miss, Musk vs. Altman In Court, Prediction Market Ban
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Roy: Siri's Apple Intelligence fails to find flight information in emails
“Apple intelligence cannot find our flight information in our email when you ask Siri, which they pitched us as agentic, and that's my momentary Apple intelligence bashing”
Ranjan Roy Feb 7, 2025 ▶ 42:52 Boom Times For ChatGPT, OpenAI’s Deep Research, AI Super Bowl
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Winarski: Apple repurposed Siri in 2010 to serve Apple Calendar and Mail
“Apple purchased Siri Steve Jobs, and they, in 2010, they took Siri as it was and reinvented it for the Apple purposes, so that would access Apple Calendar, Apple Mail, All of those things.”
Norman Winarski Jan 13, 2025 ▶ 13:23 The Future of AI and Entrepreneurship, According Two Leading Innovators
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