Apple, Google go official for Siri revamp

Good morning, AI enthusiasts. The Siri AI saga finally has a solution — and it’s Google.

Apple just officially confirmed a multi-year deal, making Gemini the backbone of its AI strategy and handing a significant win to 1 rival while suddenly making its high-profile ChatGPT partnership feel like an afterthought.

In today’s AI rundown:

• Apple, Google go official for Siri’s revamp

• Anthropic’s ‘Cowork’ for non-coding tasks

• Exploring Perplexity’s Comet browser

• Microsoft details growing AI adoption gap

• 4 latest AI tools, community workflows, and more

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GOOGLE & APPLE

📱 Apple, Google go official for Siri’s revamp

The Rundown: Apple and Google just officially announced a multi-year partnership that can use Gemini to power each Apple’s foundational AI models and the long-awaited Siri upgrade expected later this 12 months.

The small print:

• The 2 tech giants published a joint statement confirming the deal, with Apple saying Gemini “provides essentially the most capable foundation” for its AI.

• Bloomberg first reported the potential deal in November, saying Apple was committing roughly $1B annually to license Google’s technology.

• Apple told CNBC that its ChatGPT deal remains to be intact, while also confirming that its AI features will proceed to run on-device and via Private Cloud Compute.

• The announcement briefly pushed Google’s market cap above $4T for the primary time, now trailing only Nvidia, Microsoft, and Apple itself.

Why it matters: After a 12 months of rumblings over Siri’s direction, Apple is finally (officially) picking a lane — and one which is outsourcing Siri’s AI struggles to a significant competitor. The deal is validation for Google’s massive Gemini rise, and in addition makes the arrangements with OpenAI a bit awkward, with its biggest rival powering Siri’s brain.

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ANTHROPIC

🚀 Anthropic’s ‘Cowork’ for non-coding tasks

The Rundown: Anthropic just released Cowork, a brand new macOS tool that brings Claude Code’s agentic capabilities to on a regular basis tasks like organizing files, constructing reports, and managing expenses.

The small print:

• The tool operates inside a delegated folder in your Mac, where Claude can autonomously organize, modify, and generate documents on a user’s behalf.

• Third-party integrations with services like Asana and Notion are inbuilt, together with optional browser control through the Chrome extension.

• Users can assign several jobs directly and check back later — a workflow Anthropic compares to delegating to a colleague quite than a bot.

• Cowork launches in research preview, available initially to Max tier users and exclusive to the platform’s macOS app for now.

Why it matters: Claude Code has turn out to be one among Anthropic’s breakout products, with users pushing it far beyond just coding — however the name/interface still is perhaps intimidating to non-developers. Cowork brings the identical approach to everyone, allowing a more general user base to leverage Claude’s strong agentic capabilities.

AI TRAINING

🌐 Exploring Perplexity’s Comet browser

The Rundown: On this tutorial, you’ll learn the fundamentals of Comet, Perplexity’s latest AI browser — covering what you’ll be able to do with free vs. paid plans and previewing useful workflows like trip planning and AI-assisted shopping.

Step-by-step:

1. Install the Comet desktop app here, then explore the sidebar for predominant browsing options — click Spaces → Templates → Trip Planner Pro

2. Enter a prompt like “Plan me a visit from [starting city] to [destination city] on [dates]” — Perplexity will ask follow-ups or start researching/planning the trip

3. Open a brand new tab, navigate to Amazon.com, then open Assistant with ⌥ + a or clicking the highest right corner

4. Prompt: “Discover a computer mouse with 5k+ reviews averaging above 4.5 stars for under $60 and add it to my cart” — Perplexity then takes over your tab

Pro tip: To get essentially the most out of Comet, arrange Assistant, Connectors, and Purchases.

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AI RESEARCH

📊 Microsoft details growing AI adoption gap

The Rundown: Microsoft’s AI Economy Institute released a brand new report showing global AI adoption reached 16.3% in late 2025, while also revealing a widening gap between wealthy and developing economies and quiet growth of DeepSeek model use.

The small print:

• The UAE leads at 64% adoption for the working-age population, while the U.S. dropped to twenty fourth despite topping each global AI models and infrastructure.

• The “Global North” developed nations adopted AI at nearly double the speed of developing economies, expanding to a ten.6% higher adoption rate.

• DeepSeek gained major traction in underserved markets, with 2-4x higher usage in Africa, aided by Huawei partnerships and its free, open-source model.

Why it matters: It’s pretty wild to see the U.S. at twenty fourth despite its standing in each model development and AI infra buildout, but innovation and country-wide adoption are two very different challenges. The quiet rise of DeepSeek across underserved areas can be notable, with accessibility just as big an element as capability for global adoption.

QUICK HITS

🛠️ Trending AI Tools

• 🤝 Claude Cowork – Bring Claude’s agentic capabilities to on a regular basis tasks

• 🩺 ChatGPT Health – OpenAI’s latest experience for personal health convos

• 📝 Manus Minutes – Turn in-person discussions into structured notes

• 🏷️ Copilot Checkout – Complete purchases directly inside Microsoft Copilot

📰 All the pieces else in AI today

OpenAI announced the acquisition of health data startup Torch, paying $100M in equity and acquiring the corporate’s 4 employees.

Anthropic launched Claude for Healthcare, expanding its AI assistant’s medical capabilities with HIPAA-compliant tools for orgs and connectors for medical platforms.

Nvidia and Eli Lilly are committing $1B for a joint co-innovation AI lab based in San Francisco, aiming to speed up drug discovery and medical breakthroughs.

Manus rolled out Meeting Minutes, a brand new recording feature that captures in-person conversations and generates actionable summaries for creating follow-up work.

Axiom announced that its AxiomProver model hit an ideal rating on the 2025 Putnam exam, hailed because the “world’s hardest college-level math test”.

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 Van R. in Eunice, LA:

“As a Parish Administrator, I oversee infrastructure projects starting from airports to drainage to mess removal. These projects require us to review Request for Qualifications from engineering firms, and a few packets run a whole lot of pages long.

I exploit Claude to pre-screen these proposals, scanning each submission against our criteria… The report scores each proposal, IDs areas of strength and concern, and lists references — giving us a solid foundation for our manual review when choosing a firm.”

How do you employ AI? Tell us here.

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• Read our last Tech newsletter: Lego’s iconic brick just got a brain

• Read our last Robotics newsletter: Hyundai to mass-produce Atlas robots

• Today’s AI tool guide: Exploring Perplexity’s Comet browser

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