Who Wins The AI Superapp Battle?, Apple’s Consumer AI Victory, World Cup Automation Mistake

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Alex Kantrowitz

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4.7 • 606 Ratings

🗓️ 6 July 2026

⏱️ 60 minutes

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M.G. Siegler is the author of Spyglass.org. Siegler joins Big Technology to discuss the race to build the AI super app and which companies are best positioned to win. Tune in to hear why OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Microsoft, Meta, and Apple are all converging on the same idea: an AI interface that can handle more and more of your computing life. We also cover Apple’s new Siri, whether consumer AI will be won by default on the iPhone, and what World Cup automation says about our growing reliance on machines. Hit play for a sharp, wide-ranging conversation about where AI products are headed next. --- Enjoying Big Technology Podcast? Please rate us five stars ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ in your podcast app of choice. Want a discount for Big Technology on Substack + Discord? Here’s 25% off for the first year: https://www.bigtechnology.com/subscribe?coupon=0843016b Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Everyone's making a super app. Who's in the best position? Has Apple already won consumer AI?
0:05.7	And does automation ruining the World Cup show that even if AI makes things worse,
0:11.0	we still can't help ourselves? That's coming up with M.G. Siegler right after this.
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0:47.5	Welcome to Big Technology Podcast.
0:49.5	It's the first Monday of the month, and so we are joined.
0:52.3	As always, by M.G. Siegler in his first Monday of the
0:55.5	month appearance here on Big Technology Podcast. We have so much to speak about with you today,
1:00.7	including the latest on the Super App, battle, whether Apple's victory in Consumer AI is
1:07.9	complete total and unimpeachableable and whether the World Cup is ruining soccer
1:12.4	with automation and its replays. So MG, it's great to see you again. Welcome back.
1:17.7	Thank you, Alex. Excited to talk sports. Never rarely get to do that. That'll be exciting.
1:22.5	Well, it's interesting because Marty Swant, who writes for Big Technology on Mondays,
1:27.0	wrote to me and he's like,
1:28.2	I wish we could write about the World Cup. And I was like, of course we should write about it.
1:32.5	It is like AI or automation, whatever the technology label you want to apply to is destroying these
1:39.2	games. And so we'll have a piece out on that. And I think you and I will have some interesting conversations about it, especially since you have Norwegian blood in you, which I just learned.
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