{"video_id":"rTqqH1dCDK4","title":"Apple Must Be Desperate…","channel":"TechLinked","show":"TechLinked","published_at":"2025-12-05T14:53:29Z","duration_s":480,"segments":[{"start_s":0.0,"end_s":6.0,"text":"In the future, when humanity travels via","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":3.32,"end_s":9.76,"text":"mass relay, tech news will be provided through a digestible data-bearing","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":7.96,"end_s":14.2,"text":"sludge. For now though, I'll just give it to you normally, from my mouth. Apple","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":12.2,"end_s":19.4,"text":"and Google are close to finalizing a deal in which Apple would pay about $1","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":16.56,"end_s":24.08,"text":"billion per year for the use of Google's AI technology to power their Siri voice","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":22.0,"end_s":29.12,"text":"assistant. 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Google currently pays Apple $20 a year","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":53.8,"end_s":60.16,"text":"for search to be the default option on Safari. And under this supposed deal,","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":57.88,"end_s":65.16,"text":"Apple would pay $1 billion of that back to Google to continue pretending that","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":62.72,"end_s":69.2,"text":"they've made Siri any better. Siri will never change. It got better one time and","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":67.4,"end_s":74.72,"text":"that's it. Tesla shareholders have approved Elon Musk's $1 trillion pay","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":72.52,"end_s":79.72,"text":"package. Now, it's complicated, but the gist is that shareholders okay the plan","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":77.0,"end_s":83.0,"text":"to give Elon stock worth up to $1 trillion","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":80.76,"end_s":87.92,"text":"over the next decade providing he hits a number of milestones, which include 20","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":85.88,"end_s":93.08,"text":"million Tesla vehicles delivered, 10 million active full self-driving","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":89.88,"end_s":95.44,"text":"subscription sold, 1 million Optimus","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":93.08,"end_s":100.12,"text":"robots delivered. Uh good luck on that. And 1 million robo-taxis in commercial","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":98.12,"end_s":103.68,"text":"operation. That still That also seems like a lot. 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When you tap a link,","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":182.08,"end_s":189.08,"text":"Twitter now collapses the original post, letting you still like, reply, repost,","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":187.04,"end_s":194.64,"text":"and bookmark while viewing the linked webpage underneath.","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":191.24,"end_s":197.2,"text":"You can do it all. So powerful. The idea","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":194.64,"end_s":201.88,"text":"is apparently to keep users engaged without leaving the timeline because God","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":199.6,"end_s":206.36,"text":"forbid you spend 5 seconds on another site. This is the everything app. Why","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":204.16,"end_s":210.0,"text":"would you need to? 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Ah, it's less about what's the right","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":355.6,"end_s":361.92,"text":"thing to do and what's the money what's the more money thing to do.","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":359.8,"end_s":366.44,"text":"Some higher value accounts even racked up hundreds of violations before being","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":364.2,"end_s":371.64,"text":"shut down, leading to them creating an internal list of the scammiest scammers.","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":369.52,"end_s":376.36,"text":"Real creative guys. What's next? A round up of the most smiling smilers? I was","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":374.4,"end_s":378.84,"text":"the smiliest smile in my elementary school.","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":380.6,"end_s":387.16,"text":"Nice one. 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My wife told me","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":410.4,"end_s":417.32,"text":"I didn't need that Hyundai Santa Fe, but my love of New Mexico got the BETTER OF","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":414.68,"end_s":424.0,"text":"ME. DAMN YOU, BREAKING BAD! REMEMBER WHEN HE THREW THAT PIZZA on the roof?","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":420.28,"end_s":424.0,"text":"I haven't seen the show. Oh,","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":424.4,"end_s":431.96,"text":"And Tinder is testing a new AI-powered feature called Chemistry that, with your","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":429.56,"end_s":436.24,"text":"permission at least, scans your camera roll and asks you questions to learn","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":434.08,"end_s":440.76,"text":"your interests and personality in order to get you better matches. The feature","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":438.32,"end_s":446.0,"text":"is live in Australia and New Zealand and is slated to roll out more broadly in","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":442.76,"end_s":448.68,"text":"2026. Hey, you've both got PICTURES OF","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":446.0,"end_s":452.32,"text":"DOGS. GO FOR A DOG WALK. YOU'VE BOTH GOT a million pictures of food. Time for a","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":450.48,"end_s":456.12,"text":"dinner date. You've both got a million nudes on your phone.","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":454.2,"end_s":460.64,"text":"Now, I've got to get back in the kitchen to get some pictures of the tech news","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":457.84,"end_s":465.0,"text":"I'm prepping for Monday's feast. Because it's the tech news sludge.","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":462.64,"end_s":469.12,"text":">> In In the meantime, tell me about your favorite soup or your Mass Effect love","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":467.72,"end_s":472.8,"text":"interest. I don't want to hear that.","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":471.84,"end_s":476.6,"text":"You can It's okay. Is it the soup or the Mass Effect love","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":476.12,"end_s":480.68,"text":"interest? >> It's fine. See you Monday.","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0}],"full_text":"In the future, when humanity travels via mass relay, tech news will be provided through a digestible data-bearing sludge. For now though, I'll just give it to you normally, from my mouth. Apple and Google are close to finalizing a deal in which Apple would pay about $1 billion per year for the use of Google's AI technology to power their Siri voice assistant. Bloomberg's Mark Gurman reports that Apple is finalizing plans to commission from Google a custom Gemini model to help overhaul Siri's summarizer and planner features. However, this planned reliance on Google is only temporary as Gurman reports that the company is currently building its own flagship AI model, which it aims to make available for consumer use as soon as next year. And of course, this isn't the only deal between the two companies. Google currently pays Apple $20 a year for search to be the default option on Safari. And under this supposed deal, Apple would pay $1 billion of that back to Google to continue pretending that they've made Siri any better. Siri will never change. It got better one time and that's it. Tesla shareholders have approved Elon Musk's $1 trillion pay package. Now, it's complicated, but the gist is that shareholders okay the plan to give Elon stock worth up to $1 trillion over the next decade providing he hits a number of milestones, which include 20 million Tesla vehicles delivered, 10 million active full self-driving subscription sold, 1 million Optimus robots delivered. Uh good luck on that. And 1 million robo-taxis in commercial operation. That still That also seems like a lot. Musk seems to be getting right to work on that last milestone though, claiming that the Cybertaxi vehicle Tesla announced a year ago will begin production in April. Now, that might not necessarily mean much considering Tesla's grand tradition of saying things will happen that then do not. Following that tradition, Tesla just announced they've delayed the reveal of the production Roadster 2 to April Fools' Day 2026, nearly nine years after the project was first revealed. It's got to be a prank. And it's hard to tell if Elon was pranking us or trying to get those 1 million bot sales when he also said that in the future, prisoners shouldn't go to jail, but instead have a robot follow them around to make sure they're behaving themsel- kind of like Navi in Ocarina of Time. Except this Navi stops you from doing crime. I like this robot a lot more than MY PROBATION OFFICER. HEY! LISTEN, Twitter has started preloading links and media from posts across the platform, creating what some are describing as ghost traffic to external sites. And developers noticed the change after seeing spikes in referral data from Twitter to platforms like Substack and Blue Sky, even when users never actually clicked on the links. According to the company, this behavior is actually intentional. When you tap a link, Twitter now collapses the original post, letting you still like, reply, repost, and bookmark while viewing the linked webpage underneath. You can do it all. So powerful. The idea is apparently to keep users engaged without leaving the timeline because God forbid you spend 5 seconds on another site. This is the everything app. Why would you need to? Critics argue it's just another way for the company to inflate engagement numbers and muddy everyone else's analytics with some advertisers already reporting suspicious traffic surges. Elon Musk's Twitter has gone from suppressing links to Substack and Blue Sky, which they viewed as competitors, to loading them whether you like it or not. The internet's a wild ride, baby. If you want to calm things down, check out our sponsor Ground News for people that are tired of living inside algorithmically controlled online echo chambers. Ground News helps you step outside your information bubble to see the bigger picture by collecting news from across the political spectrum. Hey, speaking of bubbles, I used Ground News to look into famed investor Michael Burry betting that the AI bubble is going to burst. And I found that media representation of the story was pretty fair with 27% of the stories covering the subject coming from the left and 36 coming from the right. If everybody's equally interested in what Burry is up to, maybe we'll get a big short sequel. Maybe they'll have a better time following that one. Ground News reveals the political leanings and ownership behind each outlet so you can check your own biases and understand how different sides cover the same story. Start seeing your news with the transparency you deserve and you can even save 40% on a Ground News Vantage plan through the link in the description. One thing to know, the Quick Bits love soup, but you're not going to catch them eating sludge. They love zupa ogórkowa. Polish pickle soup. Is anyone Are you Polish? Can we Do we have any idea how to ogórkowa Huh? Are you Polish? Sure. Grand Theft Auto 6 has been DELAYED ONCE AGAIN. I'M SO FRUST- WITH Rockstar confirming the launch is moving from May to November of 2026. A moment of silence for everyone really upset about this. This new delay follows reports that some recently fired employees leaked internal information about the company on Discord, though it's unclear if that actually had anything to do with this at all. Guess we'll just have to take two number nines, a number nine large, a number six with extra dip, a number seven, two number 45s, one with the cheese, and a large soda while we wait. What is he talking about? Look at him. Meta is the subject of a Reuters investigation that claims the company earns billions from posts advertising scams with internal documents reportedly showing Meta just really struggling with the decision of whether to forfeit all the revenue they're getting from these scammy ads by removing them or pay the fines if they keep them up. Ah, it's less about what's the right thing to do and what's the money what's the more money thing to do. Some higher value accounts even racked up hundreds of violations before being shut down, leading to them creating an internal list of the scammiest scammers. Real creative guys. What's next? A round up of the most smiling smilers? I was the smiliest smile in my elementary school. Nice one. Hyundai's IT services subsidiary has revealed it was hit by a cyberattack between February 22nd and March 2nd of this year, during which hackers stole names, social security numbers, and driver's licenses of up to 2.7 million owners of Hyundai and Kia vehicles. The company says it's brought in forensic experts, notified law enforcement, and is offering two years of free credit monitoring to those impacted, which makes everything better. My wife told me I didn't need that Hyundai Santa Fe, but my love of New Mexico got the BETTER OF ME. DAMN YOU, BREAKING BAD! REMEMBER WHEN HE THREW THAT PIZZA on the roof? I haven't seen the show. Oh, And Tinder is testing a new AI-powered feature called Chemistry that, with your permission at least, scans your camera roll and asks you questions to learn your interests and personality in order to get you better matches. The feature is live in Australia and New Zealand and is slated to roll out more broadly in 2026. Hey, you've both got PICTURES OF DOGS. GO FOR A DOG WALK. YOU'VE BOTH GOT a million pictures of food. Time for a dinner date. You've both got a million nudes on your phone. Now, I've got to get back in the kitchen to get some pictures of the tech news I'm prepping for Monday's feast. Because it's the tech news sludge. >> In In the meantime, tell me about your favorite soup or your Mass Effect love interest. I don't want to hear that. You can It's okay. Is it the soup or the Mass Effect love interest? >> It's fine. See you Monday."}