F1, Apple Intelligence, an Apple AI Pin, and iPhone 18 rumors on the AppleInsider Podcast
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🗓️ 23 January 2026
⏱️ 75 minutes
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Summary
Apple is up for another Oscar, Apple is trying another AI Pin, and while Craig Federighi now leads the team having another go at Siri, there are new iPhone 18 Pro rumors being debated.
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Links from the Show:
- 'F1' driving Apple's Oscar awards ambitions in 2026
- Apple & Google's AI deal clears biggest hurdle blocking smart home accessory release
- Apple Intelligence will see sweeping changes as Craig Federighi takes control
- Despite Apple having said otherwise, Siri said to become a chatbot in iOS 27
- Apple Park employees are testing two new AI chatbots
- This time it'll work: Apple rumored to be developing a wearable AI pin
- Japan finally gets Apple FItness+, lazily using AI-generated dubs
- ChatGPT will soon start showing ads, but they won't affect its responses
- No top left camera for iPhone 18 Pro, but a smaller Dynamic Island
- After years of rumors, Face ID without Dynamic Island may come to iPhone 18
- Dynamic Island will move & get really tiny, if a leaker who's being sued by Apple is right
- Analyst claims to know full Apple's iPhone 18 Pro & iPhone Fold specs
- Have US senators told Apple and Google to remove X/Grok?
- Apple is afraid doing anything about child porn on X
- Grok now bans illegal porn generation, after monetizing it
- W Emerges as X Alternative Aimed at Combating 'Systemic Disinformation' | PCMag
- Bad Bunny dances his way to the Super Bowl halftime show
- Red Bull's 2026 Formula 1 launch puts Apple hardware front and center
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- (00:00) - Intro and Oscars
- (03:36) - So much Apple Intelligence
- (08:17) - Apple AI Pin
- (13:05) - Siri chatbot
- (24:42) - Apple Fitness+ AI dubbing
- (37:54) - iPhone 18 Pro and iPhone Fold
- (49:10) - Controversy Corner
- (01:01:44) - Bad Bunny
- (01:07:55) - Apple Vision Pro sports
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, welcome to the Apple Side of the podcast. I'm William Gallagher, and I'm joined, as always, by Wesley Hiliard-Birds. |
| 0:15.0 | Wes, just for you, important news. This is really important. You should probably take notes. |
| 0:19.7 | Following last week's episode, I have consulted all the right sources, and I can actually tell you, yes, |
| 0:25.7 | King Charles does have a dog. I can tell you, his name is snuff, for some reason, and he's, |
| 0:31.0 | good luck pronouncing this, William, La Grotto Romangolo Truffle Dog. You heard it here first, |
| 0:40.1 | possibly last, but never, ever let let it be said that any question asked on Apple Insider doesn't get answered. You're just looking at me. |
| 0:46.9 | It's possible, okay, there are more some pressing issues, such as actually Wes. I learned shortly |
| 0:51.9 | before we started recording that F1 has been nominated for a best picture Oscar. |
| 0:57.8 | Does that make you very, very happy? |
| 1:00.2 | It's going to be a tough year for F1. |
| 1:03.8 | I mean, it's an excellent movie, but I think Senors or one battle after another has it. |
| 1:10.7 | I'm rooting for Hamnet, I'm afraid. |
| 1:13.4 | That's the one. |
| 1:14.8 | I haven't seen Marty Supreme, but I've heard it's pretty amazing. |
| 1:18.3 | So again, like, it's a very tough year for Apple to be in best picture. |
| 1:22.7 | But the fact they got nominated with all these others just shows how... |
| 1:26.8 | That is true, yes, yeah. Except interestingly, I mean, when famously Apple is the only strip was the first dreamer to win a Best Picture Oscar and then the Oscars changed the rules to make that more awkward. Codo was actually nominated for three Oscars. People forget this and it won them all. It won the best |
| 1:44.4 | picture. It won an acting Oscar, a supporting actor, I think it was, and Best Adapted Screenplay. |
| 1:49.9 | Last year, Killers of the Flam and Moon was up with 10 nominations across all of it. Acting, |
| 1:55.5 | directing, Best Picture, technical, the lot. This year, F-1 is up for four things, but apart from best picture, |
| 2:02.0 | they're all mostly technical things, editing, sound and visual things. And I think given |
| 2:07.6 | the Oscar buzzer around everything else, I think I personally, especially Hamlet, it doesn't |
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