Show Notes
Apple's next-gen Siri is still far off, but this week the company announced that it'll be using Google's Gemini AI for its new foundation models. In this episode, Devindra and Engadget's Igor Bonifacic discuss why Apple teamed up with Google again, instead of OpenAI or Anthropic. Also, they chat about Meta's Reality Lab layoffs, which is refocusing the company on AI hardware like its smart glasses.
Meta announces 1000+ layoffs, closes 3 VR studios as it shifts focus to AI hardware – 2:12 Gemini can now pull context from the rest of your Google apps including photos and Youtube history – 12:31 Framework raises the price of its desktop by $460 because of the global RAM shortage – 18:36 NVIDIA may revive the RTX 3060 and kill off 5070 Ti due to its VRAM demands – 21:57 Apple creates a subscription bundle for Pro creative apps like Final Cut Pro, Logic, and others – 23:00 Tesla’s Full Self Driving is also going subscription only, a year costs $999 – 29:15 Matthew McConaughey trademarks himself to fight unauthorized AI likenesses – 33:27 Apple announces that its long delayed ’smarter Siri’ will be powered by Google Gemini – 35:15 X finally responds to Grok’s CSAM and nudity generation with limits – 51:46 Cursor claims their AI agents wrote 1M+ lines of code to make a web browser from scratch, are developers cooked? – 57:52
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