Engadget Podcast: Why did Apple select Gemini for next-gen Siri?

Apple’s next-gen Siri remains to be far off, however this week the corporate introduced that it will be utilizing 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 Actuality Lab layoffs, which is refocusing the corporate on AI {hardware} like its good glasses.

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Subjects

• 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 could revive the RTX 3060 and kill off 5070 Ti as a consequence of 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 also be going subscription solely, a 12 months prices $999 – 29:15

• Matthew McConaughey emblems himself to combat unauthorized AI likenesses – 33:27

• Apple publicizes that its lengthy delayed ’smarter Siri’ shall be powered by Google Gemini – 35:15

• X lastly responds to Grok’s CSAM and nudity technology with limits – 51:46

• Cursor claims their AI brokers wrote 1M+ strains of code to make an online browser from scratch, are builders cooked? – 57:52

Credit

Host: Devindra Hardawar
Visitor: Igor Bonafacic
Producer: Ben Ellman
Music: Dale North and Terrence O’Brien