Episode 22
The two biggest frenemies in tech are officially collaborating
☕ Weekly AI Tea Time
Apple confirms it will use Google’s Gemini models to power Siri’s long-awaited AI overhaul
Apparently, most AI companies are going to fail?
Europe has stepped into AI coliseum with the European Council adopting measures to support large-scale AI hardware and quantum infrastructure
Meta’s AI leader quits to start his own AI startup focusse don the physical world
🌟 AI Power moves by Her
Amy Hood is the CFO of Microsoft and one of the most powerful people in AI without ever being labeled as such. She’s allocating the capital behind Microsoft’s massive AI buildout. From Azure data centers to OpenAI partnerships, she is quietly deciding how fast and how far AI gets embedded into enterprise software worldwide.
🧠 AI word of the Week:
Grounding is the process of anchoring an AI’s responses to verified sources, real-time data, or structured knowledge so it doesn’t make things up.
Why it matters:
Grounding is how AI moves from sounding confident to being correct. It’s critical for search, shopping, healthcare, and anything where accuracy actually matters.
In a sentence:
“Without grounding, AI answers are just vibes.”
🫣 The Cringe Files:
UK police blamed Microsoft Copilot for bogus intelligence that led to a fan ban
An eye-opening study showed that 40% of the supposed time saved by using AI is actually spent fixing its mistakes