Android·
Gemini Intelligence turns Android 17 into an agent that drives your apps
Google's Android Show pitched Gemini Intelligence and AppFunctions, an MCP-style way for the assistant to call inside your apps. Here's how it works and what to watch.
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First covered Apr 16, 2026, latest Jun 13, 2026
Apple·
Apple rebuilt Siri on Google's Gemini and is paying $1 billion a year for it
At WWDC 2026 Apple shipped Siri AI, rebuilt on a custom Google Gemini model running on its own servers. Here are the catches behind the demo.
AI·
DeepSeek locked in the 75% V4-Pro cut. The API now undercuts every Western frontier model.
On May 23 DeepSeek told customers the V4-Pro discount becomes its standard price after May 31. Output drops from $3.48 to $0.87 per million tokens.
AI·
Google's Magic Pointer turns the cursor into a Gemini prompt. The first Googlebooks ship this fall.
Google announced Googlebook on May 12: a premium laptop tier above Chromebook, with a Gemini-aware cursor called Magic Pointer. Acer, ASUS, Dell, HP, and Lenovo are in.
AI·
Cactus Compute distilled Gemini into a 26M tool-calling model. The trick: no feed-forward layers.
Needle is a 26M-parameter function caller distilled from Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite. The Simple Attention Network drops MLPs and runs at 6,000 tok/s prefill on edge silicon.
Apple·
Apple is turning iOS 27 into an AI model marketplace. ChatGPT loses its exclusive slot.
Bloomberg reports Apple will let users choose Gemini, Claude, or ChatGPT across Siri, Writing Tools, and Image Playground via a new Extensions framework this fall.
AI·
Alphabet hit $109.9B in Q1 and is starting to sell TPUs to outside data centers
Alphabet posted $109.9B Q1 2026 revenue with Cloud up 63% and a $460B backlog. Sundar Pichai said Google will sell TPUs to select customers running them in their own data centers.
Apple·
Google's Cloud chief just confirmed the deal: Gemini will power the new Siri this year
At Cloud Next 2026, Thomas Kurian named Apple as a customer and Gemini as the engine behind 'a more personalized Siri coming later this year.' Apple has stayed silent.
AI·
OpenAI shipped GPT-5.5 seven weeks after 5.4. API tokens now cost twice as much.
OpenAI released GPT-5.5 (codename Spud) on April 23. The API runs at $5/$30 per million tokens, double GPT-5.4, with Pro at $30/$180.
Apple·
Apple is sending 200 Siri engineers to an AI coding bootcamp. That tells you everything.
A report from The Information reveals Apple is retraining Siri staff on AI tools like Claude Code. With WWDC two months away, Apple's AI gap has never been more visible.
AI·
Google Gemini finally has a Mac app, and it's gunning for ChatGPT's desktop lead
Google shipped a native Swift Gemini app for macOS with screen sharing, voice, and Deep Research. Here's what it does, what it doesn't, and how it stacks up.