Siri is a Gemini

Jan 16, 2026 09:21 PM - 4 months ago 118219

David Pierce

is editor-at-large and Vergecast co-host pinch complete a decade of acquisition covering user tech. Previously, astatine Protocol, The Wall Street Journal, and Wired.

We cognize really the next-generation Siri is supposed to work. Apple showed it disconnected successful 2024, made commercials astir it, and mostly promised that AI would alteration the measurement we utilized our gadgets forever. And then, well, nary of that came to pass. So Apple made a deal: It tapped Google’s Gemini exertion to thief it move Siri into the adjunct we were promised. This deal’s a large one, and it could change the scenery of the AI race going forward.

On this section of The Vergecast, David and Nilay talk astir the news that publishers are suing Google en masse connected the heels of its adtech antitrust trial, including The Verge’s genitor company, Vox Media. Then they talk done what we cognize astir the Siri-Gemini deal, and why immoderate of the specifications we don’t yet cognize will extremity up being hugely important. Either way, though, this each raises the mobility of whether Apple mislaid the AI wars successful a measurement it will travel to regret, aliases it simply realized the conflict wasn’t worthy fighting. There’s a Cook Doctrine instruction successful present somewhere.

After that, the hosts move to immoderate different large news successful tech. First, there’s the horror show that is Grok and X, successful which everyone is to blame and nary 1 seems consenting to do thing astir it. After that, we talk Meta’s latest layoffs successful the Reality Labs section and why it feels for illustration this might beryllium the extremity of the metaverse. For astir a decade, Mark Zuckerberg and his squad made each effort to area the market connected what Meta was convinced was the adjacent large thing. Then they mislaid interest. And now it mightiness beryllium over.

Finally, successful the lightning round, it’s clip for different information of Brendan Carr is simply a Dummy, the latest connected the Paramount / Warner / Netflix battle, the Trump Phone, and the caller Digg.

If you want to cognize much astir everything we talk successful this episode, present are immoderate links to get you started, first successful Google news:

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