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Apple Bets LLMs Can Be Like Search - DTNS 5236

Daily Tech News Show

Tom Merritt

News, Technology

4.81.5K Ratings

🗓️ 30 March 2026

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

Is it smart for Apple to let you choose your LLM? Plus, is it time to stop forgiving Windows?


Starring Tom Merritt and Robb Dunewood.


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0:00.0

This is the Daily Tech News for Monday, March 30th, 2026. We tell you what you need to know,

0:13.5

give you some context and try to help each other understand. Today, Bloomberg's Mark

0:17.8

German, shed some light on Apple's strategy to let you choose your

0:21.3

LLM for Siri.

0:22.7

Is that a good idea?

0:23.8

We're going to talk about that.

0:24.7

I'm Tom Merritt.

0:25.5

And I'm Rob Dunwood.

0:26.5

Let's start with what you need to know with the big story.

0:31.8

So Jason and I talked about this briefly on Friday.

0:35.0

Apple's expected decision to let you choose which LLM you want to use with

0:39.4

Siri, and Bloomberg's Mark German, who was the source of that Friday story, published some more

0:43.6

details on what sources are telling him will be the way this works. Put this in his power on

0:49.2

newsletter, which always goes out Sunday night. German describes a strategy similar to Apple's

0:54.0

strategy with apps.

0:56.0

So with apps, Apple gives you some core apps.

0:59.0

So when you pull a phone out of the box for the first time, you can still use it, but then

1:02.0

you go to the app store where you can buy apps from the best folks out there and pick

1:07.0

the apps that you want to use while Apple takes a cut of the proceeds.

1:11.7

Apple is going to continue to use Google models to power Apple intelligence to help you get

1:17.0

the most out of iOS and to power new devices like smart glasses and pendants so that out of the

1:22.9

box you will have some intelligence in there that you can use, but it will open Siri to third-party services.

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