🍦 Siri Gets a $1B Upgrade: Apple Turns to Google's Gemini
When Apple pays Google $1B to borrow an AI brain, you know the rest of the week's tech news is going to be unhinged, and oh boy, it was.
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November 8, 2025
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Apple Gives Up, Pays Google $1B for Gemini: With Google’s tech, Siri could be upgraded from “useless” to “maybe occasionally helpful”
OpenAI’s Revenue Exceeds $20B Annually: They also plan for another $1.4 trillion in data centers. They’re either building the future or inflating the world’s most expensive, bubble. Probably both.
Moonshot AI Releases Kimi K2: A new AI model that’s totally better than all the others in all benchmarks. At least until next Tuesday, when the true best model will be released.
💰 Market Moves
[MARKET MOVES] Apple Gives Up, Pays Google $1B for Gemini
With Google’s tech, Siri could be upgraded from “useless” to “maybe occasionally helpful”
[MARKET MOVES] OpenAI’s Revenue Exceeds $20B Annually
They also plan for another $1.4 trillion in data centers. They’re either building the future or inflating the world’s most expensive, bubble. Probably both.
[MARKET MOVES] Snapchat to Integrate Perplexity
In app - Your Snapchat AI can now give teens answers to vital questions like “what’s the best filter for a duck face?” It only cost them $400 million.
[MARKET MOVES] OpenAI and AWS to enter a $38 billion partnership
OpenAI is now in a very expensive polyamorous relationship, adding AWS for $38 billion while still keeping Azure around. Awkward.
🛠️ Tech & Product
[LAUNCHES] Moonshot AI Releases Kimi K2
A new AI model that’s totally better than all the others in all benchmarks. At least until next Tuesday, when the true best model will be released.
[LAUNCHES] Google Gemini Integrates with Your Workspace
Great news! Google will now read all your privavte emails, private files, and private chats, just to help you write reports for work. What could possibly go wrong?
[LAUNCHES] ChatGPT Now Lets You Interrupt Queries
In a world-changing innovation, you can now interrupt the robot mid way, just like you do with your human friends. The future is here you guys.
[LAUNCHES] Google Maps Gets a Gemini Upgrade
Get ready for your GPS to say, “Here are the top 5 reasons you should turn left right now. 👈👆👉👇”
[LAUNCHES] Canva Launches Creative Operating System
Canva now calls itself an “Operating System” because a “design tool” wasn’t as trendy. Its AI will help you generate the exact designs as everyone else.
[LAUNCHES] Slack Launches ‘Slackbot’ Personal Assistant
A fancy name for “we know we created too many channels, so pay us extra to summarize all that noise we created with our business model”
[LAUNCHES] “Sandbar” Unveils ‘Stream’ Smart Ring
From the people who brought you the Metaverse, here’s a ring that listens to everything you say and gives you real-time commentary. Because everyone wants a tiny critic on their finger.
[LAUNCHES] NotebookLM Gets Learning Superpowers
Google’s app can now make flashcards and quizzes from your notes. It’s the perfect tool for learning things without actually having to, you know, learn them.
[LAUNCHES] Sora App Launches on Android
Yay. More AI-slop! Get ready for your social media to be flooded with even weirder, AI-generated videos of cats flying through space.
[LAUNCHES] XPENG Unveils Its new Female Humanoid Robot
I saw it, it has a digital face for “expressions” and touch-sensitive skin, which is not creepy at all thanks guys.
[LAUNCHES] Amazon Launches AI Kindle Translate for Authors
Indie authors can now use Kindle’s AI to translate their work. All nuance and literary merit can now be automatically lost in any language.
[LAUNCHES] Google Deploys New Axion CPUs & Ironwood TPUs
Google made some new computer chips that are really really, REALLY, REALLY fast so new AI models can hallucinate answers at record-breaking speeds.
[LAUNCHES] Perplexity Upgrades Comet Assistant
The AI assistant is now 23% faster at browsing the web for you. Weird flex, but okay.
[LAUNCHES] Tinder Tests ‘Chemistry’ AI Matchmaker
An AI will now analyze your photos and questionable life choices to find someone equally disappointing.
[LAUNCHES] Manus 1.5 General Agent
Manus 1.5 now claims it can build entire apps with an UNLIMITED context window. Sure buddy... sure... What’s the business model? donations from Qatar?
[LAUNCHES] Windsurf Codemaps by Cognition
Cognition has released a new feature that generates AI-annotated, structured maps your codebase, so vibe coding agents can ruin it more quickly.
[LAUNCHES] Google Gemini API Adds File Search
The API now includes a built-in RAG system, managed vector search and citation features for developers who were tool lazy to hook another API call to their workflow.
[LAUNCHES] Litter Robot 5 Pro Launches with AI Health Monitoring
The Litter Robot 5 Pro uses dual AI cameras to analyze your cat’s waste, because we’ve officially run out of problems to solve.
🗣️ Industry Chatter
[CHATTER] Kim Kardashian Blames ChatGPT for Failed Law Exam
In the ultimate “dog ate my homework,” she claims the AI gave her wrong answers. Maybe don’t use a chatbot for legal advice? but hey that’s just me.
[CHATTER] LLMs Struggle with Robot Vacuums
The world’s most powerful AIs fail at telling a robot vacuum to clean a room 60% of the time, which is apparently a metric we measure now.
[CHATTER] Cooking Robot Fails at... COOKING
In a stunning demo, a cooking robot successfully yeeted a pan of food across the kitchen and fell over it. 🤣
[CHATTER] Google Explores AI Data Centers in Space
To solve AI’s massive energy problem on earth, Google’s plans to create a massive AI energy problem in Space.
[CHATTER] Amazon Sues Perplexity Over Shopping Agent
An AI shopping bot got in trouble for not telling Amazon it was a robot. The first shots of the human-robot war will be fought over Terms of Service agreements.
[CHATTER] EU Realizes Regulating AI Is Hard
After tech giants tantrumed like 2-ear olds, the EU is thinking about pausing its own AI rules, proving that lobbying is more powerful than legislation 👍.
[CHATTER] OpenAI Faces Multiple Wrongful Death Lawsuits
The company that created the helpful AI assistant is being sued for allegedly being the opposite of helpful. Moving fast and breaking things has consequences, it seems.
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