Rumor is that Apple will use an underlying, custom model from Google for the brains of the assistant, and Apple has been looking at it for quite a while.
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Friday roundup: A good week for coding, speech models
The agentic Realtime model is a native speech-to-speech model that can be used to make customer service agents, phone reps and voice navigation features. It doesn’t go through speech-to-text and text-to-speech loops and generates audio «directly through a single model and API.» OpenAI is marketing this to developers who want more natural flowing speech, and it’s not available as distinct model in ChatGPT – yet. You can hear it and see it in use at places like Zillow, T-mobile, StubHub and Oscar Health, though. With general availability, it will surely show up in a lot more places soon.
More at: OpenAI’s launch page, discussion on r/OpenAI.
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Apple boss says AI is «as big or bigger» than internet, smartphones
— Apple must do this. Apple will do this. This is sort of ours to grab, the Apple chief said.
He also said during the Q2 earnings call on Thursday that Apple would «invest significantly» in AI projects next quarter.
— We’ve rarely been first, he added, telling employees that — There was a PC before the Mac, there was a smartphone before the iPhone, there were many tablets before the iPad, there was an MP3 player before iPod.
Together, these statements might signal a new era for Apple — attacking the AI market with some sense of renewed urgency, and investing aggressively in the process.
Go read the full scoop from Bloomberg.
ChatGPT removes sharing with Google feature, and other Friday news in short
ChatGPT was just two clicks away from spilling your secrets to Google, an investigation found yesterday. The «Make this chat discoverable» button on the share feature would register the whole chat on search engines. Plenty of people made that mistake, sharing «deeply personal details, including struggles with addiction, experiences of physical abuse, or serious mental health issues.» OpenAI removed the feature shortly after, saying it «introduced too many opportunities for folks to accidentally share things they didn’t intend to.» They are now scrambling to remove «indexed content from the relevant search engines.»
Apple open to mergers and acquisitions in AI space
— We’re very open to M&A that accelerates our roadmap, Apple’s Tim Cook said on yesterday’s earnings call. — We are not stuck on a certain size company, although the ones that we have acquired thus far this year are small in nature. He also said Apple was going to «significantly» grow it’s AI investments, after the company reported a 10% increase in revenue — the largest jump since 2021. They are also «making good progress» on personalizing Siri, he said.
Zuckerberg throws shade on open source projects
Mark Zuckerberg of Meta recently posted a manifesto of sorts, mapping out what he sees as a benevolent «personal superintelligence» «for everyone.» In it, he quietly states that superintelligence will pose new safety concerns, and «We’ll need to be rigorous about mitigating these risks and careful about what we choose to open source.» He repeated this in his later earnings call, saying «we kind of wrestle with whether it’s productive or helpful to share that.» See also his original post.
Developers are slightly souring on AI coding
A new survey from Stack Overflow shows a significant drop in developer trust in AI coding, with trust in its accuracy dropping from 40% in previous years to 29% in 2025. «Favorability» has also dropped from 72% to 60% on a yearly basis. 52% of developers say they use AI agents in their work, while 72% reject «vibe coding.» The survey was taken with 49,000 worldwide developers. Stack Overflow is no stranger to AI effects, having dropped sharply after the AI coding boom.
Meta hires Ruoming Pang, Apple’s lead on foundational models
Pang was in charge of roughly 100 developers making Apple’s Foundational models, powering features the company calls «Apple Intelligence,» and is found in every corner of iOS 26, such as email summaries, notifications and Genmoji — that was all over the latest WWDC 2025.
Bad vibes at Apple
Bloomberg (paywalled) writes that news of Apple considering other models than its in-house ones to power a smarter Siri has impacted the morale at the foundational model team, and MacRumors says that other engineers are also entertaining offers from outside companies.
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Apple might be dropping own AI, integrating Anthropic or OpenAI instead
They have instead asked Anthropic and OpenAI to train some of their models on their Private Cloud Compute servers.
The Samsung model
This mirrors Samsung’s approach to integrating Large Language Models in its Galaxy phones, where they have some in-house, lower level AI doing the legwork and passing the rest off to Google’s Gemini, writes Engadget.
According to Bloomberg, Apple has recently focused on Anthropic as the most promising LLM, being more compatible with Apple servers and offering the best experience.
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A facelift, and some actually useful AI features from Apple at WWDC
It debuted a new user interface across its systems, and launched a whole suite of «Apple Intelligence» features.
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Jony Ive joins OpenAI on breakthrough hardware project
Citing significant progress already done, Sam Altman says «I think it is the coolest piece of technology that the world will have ever seen,» according to The Washington Post.
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Apple reportedly has ChatGPT-level AI for Siri in the works
One of those is the significant progress it is having during testing of an AI chatbot version of Apple’s personal Siri assistant, developed by a team in Zurich.
MacRumors reports that Apple is testing a completely new architecture — not the current patchwork Siri that punts to ChatGPT — but a standalone LLM designed to eventually replace Siri outright.
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Apple says considering AI search in Safari, but «not good enough yet»
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Clarifying Apple’s tariff exposure
With the 145% tariffs imposed on goods imported from China, Apple was facing steep cost increases and would likely have had to drastically increase prices on its product offerings.
iPhone prices set to skyrocket with new tariffs
A brand new iPhone 16 Pro Max could set you back $2,300, Rosenblatt Securities analysts say to Reuters, who are factoring in a 43% price hike to offset the new tariffs on the countries that produce them.
The cheapest iPhone, the 16e, would go from $599 to just over $850, if Apple doesn’t decide to eat up the tariffs themselves, according to MacRumors.
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Den lysende MacBook-logoen kan være på vei tilbake
Tydelig signal om at det var en Mac
Før i tiden kunne man se disse lysende bærbare maskinene over alt, fra kafeer til kaffesjapper til biblioteker og forelsesningssaler.
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Noen tanker om iPhone SE 2022
iPhone SE 2022 har prosessoren til en iPhone 13 Pro/iPhone 14 til under halve prisen, og er perfekt for deg som oppgraderer fra en eldre telefon, elller ønsker noe mer håndterbart etter å ha brukt megamobilene til Apple en stund.
Samtidig er det en telefon som er bygget for å vare; en egenskap mange ikke tenker på mens de jakter de siste toppmodellene.
Denne mobilen er minst like kjapp, eller kjappere enn en vanlig iPhone 14, har lynrask fingeravtrykkleser, tar ålreite bilder, og går runder rundt det meste på Android, om enn med en “gammeldags” design.
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Neste iPhone kan få aktiv låseskjerm
Det mest oppsiktsvekkende han hevder i det siste nyhetsbrevet sitt, er at iOS 16 vil inkludere en “alltid på” låseskjerm – som skal debutere med iPhone 14.
Alltid på
Denne skjermen skal ha aktive bakgrunnsbilder med “widget”-aktige funksjoner, så det skal være mulig å interagere med skjermen også når den er låst.
Dette ble også hevdet om iPhone 13, i følge MacRumors, men låseskjermen kom ikke med i de siste konfigurasjonene.