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Exposed: Apple sells privacy, but Gemini AI-powered Siri prefers Google Cloud

Apple told you for years that what happens on your iPhone stays on your iPhone, yet today that promise bends as Siri will begin calling Gemini to think for answers, and Google just confirmed its Cloud partnership with Apple.

Mark Gurman confirms Apple is paying Google, probably Cloud too, roughly 1 billion dollars a year so Gemini can power Siri. That is not a side project; that is rent, paid to a company Apple loves to frame as the opposite of its values.

You might think this is just a smart business move by Apple. iPhone fans are told Apple tried to build its own models, massive ones, roughly 150 billion parameters strong, and they still came up short when reality arrived.

Google showed up with a 1.2 trillion parameter machine, and the doors opened. We have been covering Siri long enough to remember the glow-up promise. Twenty months have passed since Apple first teased a smarter assistant.

Now the upgrade arrives, not from Apple alone, but Google infrastructure humming in the background. This is not about whether Gemini is good; it is about honesty.

If Apple’s future intelligence depends on rented brains, then the privacy story will keep shrinking, quietly, until it fits whatever deal comes next.

As reported by Mark Gurman of Bloomberg:

Google says Apple will be using Google Cloud as part of the Gemini deal. This doesn’t square at all with Apple’s claims about using its own servers/Private Cloud Compute. Apple is using Google Cloud for the chatbot Siri in the fall.

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Google Creates A Privacy Conundrum By Declaring It Has Become Apple’s “Preferred Cloud Provider”

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Apple launched its Private Cloud Compute framework with much fanfare back in 2024, placing privacy front and center in its overarching AI strategy. However, this critical differentiating factor - one that clinched plaudits from consumers - is now seemingly under existential threat, as per the latest comments emerging from Google's earnings call today. The scope of Apple's Private Cloud Compute framework appears to be shrinking as Google becomes the iPhone maker's "preferred cloud provider" We already know that Apple is gearing up to launch a revamped version of Siri, likely with the upcoming iOS 26.4 update, bringing the much-delayed in-app actions, […]

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Apple Researchers Figure Out A Way To Unlock Faster, More Natural-Sounding Conversations With Siri

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Apple might have adopted a Google Gemini crutch to compensate for its own AI-related shortcomings, but that has not stopped the researchers at the Cupertino giant from trying to explore novel ways to make Siri noticeably better. Now, a new research paper from Apple researchers aims to unlock faster, more natural-sounding responses from Siri. Apple researchers figure out a viable path to elicit faster responses from Siri AI models typically generate speech based on tokens or short snippets of phonetic sounds, often spanning just milliseconds. The model then selects which phonetic sound (speech token) to use in its responses by […]

Read full article at https://wccftech.com/apple-researchers-figure-out-a-way-to-unlock-faster-more-natural-sounding-conversations-with-siri/

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