Apple in talks to make use of Google’s AI for brand new Siri

Good morning, AI enthusiasts. Apple is reportedly weeks away from a crossroads decision that might define Siri’s future: Follow their in-house AI models or swallow their pride and tap a rival for help.

With Google’s Gemini now emerging as a candidate and custom models already in testing, the iPhone maker might soon depend on considered one of their biggest smartphone competitors to dig them out of an increasingly deep AI hole.

In today’s AI rundown:

• Apple explores Google’s Gemini to repair Siri

• Meta partners with Midjourney for ‘aesthetic’ AI

• Construct an AI email agent that auto-schedules meetings

• OpenAI, Retro Biosciences make old cells young again

• 4 latest AI tools, community workflows, and more

LATEST DEVELOPMENTS

APPLE & GOOGLE

 📱Apple explores Google’s Gemini to repair Siri

The Rundown: Apple is reportedly in early talks with Google about using Gemini to power a totally rebuilt Siri, in keeping with Bloomberg — following setbacks that pushed the voice assistant’s major upgrade to 2026.

The small print:

• Apple had Google construct a custom Gemini model that might run on Apple’s private servers, with Google already training a version for testing.

• The corporate is concurrently developing two Siri versions internally: Linwood using Apple’s own models and Glenwood running on external tech.

• Apple has also explored similar partnerships with Anthropic and OpenAI (with ChatGPT already helping power Siri’s answering capabilities).

• Bloomberg reported that Apple continues to be “several weeks away” from a choice on each using internal vs. external models and who the partner can be.

Why it matters: For all of the negativity surrounding Apple’s AI issues, moving externally to bring on considered one of the frontier labs could possibly be one of the best possible end result for iPhone users. The choice is hoping Apple can develop its own — but with talent fleeing to rivals and already facing setbacks, it looks as if an extended and arduous path.

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META & MIDJOURNEY

🎨 Meta partners with Midjourney for ‘aesthetic’ AI

The Rundown: Meta just announced a brand new partnership with Midjourney to integrate the startup’s ‘aesthetic technology’ into future AI models and products, a significant shift from the corporate’s in-house creative model development.

The small print:

• Meta’s Chief AI Officer Alexandr Wang said the ‘technical collaboration’ will mix teams to upgrade visual capabilities across Meta’s product lineup.

• Meta currently has a series of visual generation tools, including Imagine, Movie Gen, and research-focused models like Dino V3.

• Founder David Holz emphasized that Midjourney continues to be an “independent, community-backed research lab with no investors” despite the partnership.

• Midjourney launched its first video generation capabilities in June with its V1 model, giving users the power to show images into five-second extendable clips.

Why it matters: Meta bringing Midjourney aesthetics to its billions of users can be a giant change from the standard seen in its previous in-house models, with MJ having a special vibe that’s just hard to match. Meta can be showing a brand new willingness to look externally (not only poach talent) to assist push its own AI development forward.

AI TRAINING

🤖 Construct an AI email agent that auto-schedules meetings

The Rundown: On this tutorial, you’ll learn how you can construct an AI agent to your inbox which you can CC into any email to robotically find meeting times and book directly in your Google Calendar.

Step-by-step:

1. Join for Lindy AI (Rundown University members get a reduction perk) and duplicate our pre-built template

2. Configure triggers: set your AI’s email address (e.g., [email protected]) and whitelist your personal email because the filtered sender

3. The agent works in two modes: Direct Booking (you specify “Tuesday 2PM”) or Time Finding (agent checks calendar and suggests options)

4. Adjust availability blocks in “Find Available Times” – set your workday start/end hours and available days

5. Test each modes, then simply CC your AI assistant on any scheduling email

Pro tip: Add team members’ emails as “from” conditions and connect their calendars — this lets anyone CC the agent to coordinate meetings across everyone’s availability.

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AI RESEARCH

🧬 OpenAI, Retro Biosciences make old cells young again

The Rundown: OpenAI just published a case study with Retro Biosciences, using a custom AI model to revamp proteins that turn cells into stem cells, achieving 50x higher efficiency than the unique Nobel-Prize winning versions discovered in 2012.

The small print:

• Researchers built GPT-4b micro, an AI trained on biological data moderately than web text, to revamp ‘Yamanaka’ proteins that reprogram aging cells.

• The AI-designed proteins converted the cells into stem cells 50x more efficiently, showing dramatically higher DNA repair abilities.

• The outcomes essentially reversed considered one of the important thing signatures of aging on the cellular level, with multiple labs validating the outcomes across testing methods.

Why it matters: While public models are leveling up users in their very own work, custom models trained by domain experts could unlock discoveries that general-purpose AI would never find — turning biology, chemistry, and materials science into computational playgrounds where a long time of lab work compresses into weeks.

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📰 All the pieces else in AI today

Latest court filings revealed that Elon Musk asked Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg to assist finance a $97.4B takeover of OpenAI in February, though Meta didn’t conform to the letter of intent.

xAI open-sourced its older Grok 2.5 model, with Elon Musk saying Grok 3 may also be made open source in “about 6 months.”

OpenAI announced the opening of a brand new office in Latest Delhi, coming on the heels of its latest $5/mo ChatGPT GO plan specifically for the region.

Elon Musk and xAI introduced MacroHard, a ‘purely AI software company’ aimed toward replicating competitors like Microsoft using simulations and AI agents.

Meta FAIR researchers released DeepConf, a way of deep pondering that achieved 99.9% on the AIME benchmark using open-source models.

Baidu launched MuseStreamer 2.0, a family of image-to-video models, with upgrades in multi-character coordination, synced audio outputs, and lower pricing.

COMMUNITY

🤝 Community AI workflows

Every newsletter, we showcase how a reader is using AI to work smarter, save time, or make life easier.

Today’s workflow comes from reader Mark H. in Detroit, MI:

“I take advantage of AI to make artsy things in my brain a reality. I’ll start with a crude drawing, then put that into chat gpt to create a prompt from that drawing then put thata prompt into Krea AI to generate a realist AI image to my liking then use an image-to-3d model to create a 3D file which I then 3D print. Pretty neat to take an idea in my brain to a physical product in a couple of steps — I really like this future.”

How do you employ AI? Tell us here.

🎓 Highlights: News, Guides & Events

• Read our last AI newsletter: Meta’s major AI restructure

• Read our last Tech newsletter: Musk brings Zuck into OpenAI drama

• Read our last Robotics newsletter: Humanoid Games: Glory meets glitches

• Today’s AI tool guide: Construct an AI email agent to auto-schedule meetings

• RSVP to our next workshop @ 4 PM EST Friday: Essential ChatGPT Suggestions

See you soon,

Rowan, Joey, Zach, Shubham, and Jennifer—the humans behind The Rundown