Gemini to power Siri’s Comeback

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🤝 Apple Bets Big on Gemini to Supercharge Siri

🌀 Stream Ring Redefines the Future of Voice-AI Wearables

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🧠 Perplexity as your Free Personal Mentor

🤝 Apple Bets Big on Gemini to Supercharge Siri

Apple is taking a major leap in AI with a $1B-a-year deal with Google to power Siri using a custom Gemini model. This marks a rare external collaboration for Apple, designed to accelerate its delayed AI rollout while developing its own in-house models.

The Shift:

1. Strategic $1B Collaboration - Apple will reportedly pay Google $1B annually to access a custom Gemini model optimized for Siri. Hosted on Apple’s Private Cloud Compute servers, it balances privacy with performance. The AI will handle advanced planning, summarization, and real-time intelligence tasks.

2. Massive Leap in Model Scale - The custom Gemini model packs 1.2 trillion parameters, compared to Apple’s 150 billion. This upgrade enables deeper reasoning, improved context retention, and faster query responses. It positions Siri closer to competitors like ChatGPT and Gemini in capability.

3. Short-Term Deal, Long-Term Vision - After testing OpenAI and Anthropic, Apple chose Gemini as a temporary bridge. While this accelerates innovation, Apple continues developing its own AI stack. The goal remains full autonomy once Apple Intelligence is ready for scale.

Launching in spring 2026, Siri will debut across iOS and macOS with Gemini’s intelligence and Apple’s privacy-first design. Its hybrid system blends on-device processing with cloud-level reasoning for smarter, faster responses. This marks Apple’s bold return to the AI race, evolving Siri into a truly intelligent assistant.

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🌀 Stream Ring Redefines the Future of Voice-AI Wearables

Sandbar, founded by former Meta and Google engineers, has unveiled the Stream Ring, an AI-powered wearable designed to record whispered thoughts and convert them into organized notes. Shipping in summer 2026, the $249–$299 device aims to merge natural speech, privacy, and productivity into a single minimalist interface.

The Shift:

1. Thought Capture Reimagined - Stream Ring lets users whisper into a small mic to transcribe ideas instantly via its iOS app. With encryption and touch-based activation, it ensures privacy while enabling hands-free journaling, to-do creation, and note management on the go.

2. The Inner Voice Experience - Stream’s AI assistant interacts conversationally and mirrors the user’s own tone, forming an “Inner Voice” that feels human and personal. This makes reflection, planning, and thought capture feel intuitive instead of transactional.

3. Design Meets Functionality - Built with a water-resistant aluminum shell and resin band, the ring integrates haptics and gesture controls to play, pause, and adjust music or notes. Its whisper-sensitive mic and “not always listening” design emphasize ethical AI use.

4. From Neural Interfaces to Everyday AI - Backed by $13M from True Ventures and others, Sandbar’s founders bring deep neural-interface expertise to consumer wearables. Competing with devices like Friend and Bee, Stream stands out as a voice-first interface, not a companion, but an extension of human thought.

By blending personalization, privacy, and design minimalism, Stream Ring could pioneer the next generation of voice-AI wearables. As AI devices flood the market, Sandbar’s vision of “capturing thoughts the moment they emerge” positions it uniquely, turning everyday moments into seamless, intelligent interaction.

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🚀Quick Shifts

💘 Tinder is testing “Chemistry,” an AI feature that scans users’ camera rolls to understand interests and personalities, surfacing fewer but more compatible matches. It’s live in Australia and New Zealand, expanding soon.

🧠 Google Gemini’s Deep Research just got personal. It can now analyze your Gmail, Drive files, and Chat messages to build detailed research reports, from market analysis to competitor summaries, directly inside Workspace.

🤝 Snapchat is partnering with Perplexity for in-app AI search. Starting early 2026, Perplexity’s “answer engine” will power AI search inside Snapchat for $400M, complementing Snap’s existing My AI chatbot for personalized results.

⚖️ New bipartisan bill targets AI-related layoffs. The “AI-Related Job Impacts Clarity Act” would require companies and agencies to disclose how many workers they fire, hire, or retrain because of AI adoption.

🤝 SoftBank and OpenAI are launching SB OAI Japan. The new 50-50 venture will localize OpenAI’s enterprise tools as “Crystal Intelligence,” with SoftBank as its first customer using 2.5 million custom ChatGPT instances internally.

🚀Quick Shifts

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