Welcome to the Tech Meme Right Home for Monday, March 18th, 2024. I'm Brian McCullough today.

I did not have on my bingo card Apple turning to Google to power its first big foray into modern AI on its hardware,

even while a new Apple AI model might be pointing to breakthroughs and AI reasoning.

One of the biggest e-sports competitions in the world has been

hacked by cheaters and some pretty bearish news for VR. Here's what you miss

today in the world of tech.

Well this is a bit of a record scratch moment that breaks a bunch of narratives all at once.

Mark Germin's sources are telling him that Apple and Google are in active talks to use

Gemini, Google's AI model to power some new AI iPhone features this year.

Apple apparently also has been holding talks with open AI to use its

models.

Quote, if a deal between Apple and Google comes to fruition, it would build upon the two companies

search partnership. For years Google has paid

Apple billions of dollars annually to make its search engine the default

option in the Safari web browser on the iPhone and other devices. The two

parties haven't decided the terms or branding of an AI

agreement or finalized how it would be implemented the people said. A deal would give

Gemini a key edge with billions of potential users, but it also may be a sign that Apple

isn't as far along with its AI efforts as some might have hoped and threatens to

draw further antitrust scrutiny of both companies.

Apple is preparing new capabilities as part of iOS 18,

the next version of the iPhone operating system based on its own AI models.

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