Welcome to 9 to 5 Mac Daily for Tuesday, January 13th, 2026. I'm your host, Chance Miller. We are sponsored

this week by Stuff, the clean and powerful to-do list app. Leading off today, we talked yesterday about

Apple's confirmation of its new partnership with Google to power future AI features using Google's

Gemini models. Today, we have a couple of new details on this deal. Perhaps most importantly is

privacy. Apple has a strong reputation for protecting user privacy, and when Apple Intelligence

first rolled out, privacy was a core principle that it touted. But now that

the company has struck a deal with Google for Gemini-based models to be the foundation of future

Apple Intelligence features, there have been a lot of questions about how that will impact privacy.

In a joint statement from Apple and Google issued yesterday afternoon, the two companies say,

quote, Apple Intelligence will continue to run on Apple devices and private cloud compute

while maintaining Apple's industry-leading privacy standards.

This implies that the exact same privacy promises available in Apple Intelligence today will extend to the

Google deal as well. The Google models will run locally on your iPhone, iPad, or Mac, and features

that do need to go to the cloud, won't go to Google's servers, but rather it will go to Apple's

private cloud compute servers where nothing can be traced back to you.

It's also worth remembering that what Apple is doing here is using Google's developed models,

not just tapping into the Gemini API.

So it's not like when a third-party app integrates Google Gemini.

It's Apple using the models directly from Google, but running on

its own devices and its own servers. Next up the day, last March, Apple announced plans to

support end encryption for RCS messages following the standardization of the feature by the GSM

Association. It's been almost a year since that announcement,

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