Siri Goes With Gemini

Siri Goes With Gemini

Author: Morning Brew January 12, 2026 Duration: 20:41
Apple announces that its going with Google’s Gemini to power Siri later this year, and Google joins the $4T club on the news. Governments around the world are still mad at Grok. AI has essentially killed Stack Overflow but its making more money than it ever has. And how you get get AI to give you the full text of books. Apple picks Google’s Gemini to run AI-powered Siri coming this year (CNBC) UK’s Ofcom investigates X over Grok’s sexualised AI images of women and children (FT) Anthropic expands into healthcare a week after OpenAI launched a similar product (Business Insider) Stack Overflow’s forum is dead thanks to AI, but the company’s still kicking... thanks to AI (Sherwood News) AI’s Memorization Crisis (The Atlantic) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Is Jensen Worried About OpenAI? [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 21:17
Is Nvidia going through with their massive OpenAI investment or not? Does Apple have what it takes to win in the AI era or not? Is Elon the only one who can make datacenters in space happen or not? And a roundup of the c…
Elon Might Just Merge All His Companies Into One [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 21:09
Apple does a big acquisition. OpenAI is racing to IPO. Elon might just merge all his companies into one. Google’s Project Genie is the latest thing that will make you say, gee, AI can do that?! And, of course, the Weeken…
Clawdbot Is Now Moltbot [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 22:04
Meta earnings good. The street like the AI spending. Microsoft earnings bad. Why is growth in their cloud business not as robust all of the sudden? Elon is following through on taking Tesla all in on robots and AI. The A…
The Amazon Layoffs [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 20:56
The Amazon layoffs showed up on schedule. Is Tether behind the rise in the price of gold? A new type of privacy screen tech from Samsung. Elon wants to IPO on his birthday. Anthropic raises more ahead of its IPO. And AI…
Is TikTok’s Algo Changing? [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 20:57
I think we have to gird ourselves for a slew of Chinese AI releases in the coming weeks. Are AI inspired layoffs poised to sweep the tech industry? Meta goes with subscriptions. Uber wants to train AI for others. And Dar…
Now We Have The Clawdbot [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 21:02
Did you even notice that new TikTok privacy policy over the weekend? AirTags finally have a second generation. Microsoft confirms it will give out your BitLocker recovery keys if you’re silly enough to store them with th…
MAYBE TikTok Is A Done Deal (This Time?) [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 20:59
Ok, ok, maybe the whole TikTok thing is a done deal at long last? Amazon is planning another major round of layoffs. Are Epic Games and Google doing an end-run around the judge? Capital One acquires Brex. And, of course,…
Apple’s Wearable AI Pin [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 20:57
Apple is developing their own AI wearable, the size of an AirTag. Anthropic overhauls Claude’s constitution. South Korea is the latest place to ride the AI rocket ship. And I think I know why your boss thinks AI is the s…
Elon Says: IPO NOW! [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 20:40
Anthropic continues to project strength in the AI race. How OpenAI is rolling out ads on ChatGPT. Netflix wants to become TikTok faster than TikTok can become them. YouTube wants to have it both ways when it comes to AI.…
The “Assistant Axis” [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 20:58
Netflix ups its bid with all cash. Sony is spinning off its legendary TV business with TCL. One of the biggest seed rounds I’ve ever heard of. Reels continues to win for Zuck. And let me introduce you to the “Assistant A…