Apple is thinking about handing series brain to Anthropic. Does meta have what it takes to build

superintelligence? And will you soon be using an AI browser? That's coming up right after this.

Welcome to Big Technology Podcast, where we're kicking off a new monthly segment, or really monthly episode,

with the great M.G. Siegler of Spyglass, who's a regular guest with us here. But I thought,

you know what, let's amp it up. We'll spend the first Monday of every month speaking with MG

about the latest in big tech and AI and spend a lot of time speaking about the great reporting

and writing that he does within Spyglass. So MG really happy to have you here. Very glad to kick this off.

Yeah, thanks for asking me to do it, Alex,

and I'm excited to chat with you on a regular basis.

Yes, and I've definitely stoked about this.

So to kick it off, let's pick up our Apple discussion.

And I think just having this regular cadence is great

because we can sort of check in on these companies and say, hey, how have they been doing since our last conversation?

Of course, the last time we spoke was the day after WWDC.

Basically, no AI. We said, okay, they're going to have to make some dramatic moves, maybe grasp for a perplexity, do some acquisition, or potentially even rewrite Siri itself.

And it looks like Apple is starting to consider this seriously with some news that came out over

the past week or so, where they are considering taking either Open AI or Anthropics Claudebot

and putting it in, basically, the lobomizing Siri

and changing the brain around. And Anthropics seems to be the one that is the leader, at least in

the clubhouse. So what do you think about this potential move from Apple and what's the significance

of it? I think it's long overdue. I've been writing about this for a while now. And at one point, I think it's long overdue. You know, I've been writing about this for a while now.

And at one point, I think it was around, you remember when several months ago, maybe around

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