Apple Picks Gemini for Siri AI, Google’s AI Shopping Tools, Meta’s New Power Player | Jan 12, 2026

Episode Description

The Information’s Editor-in-Chief Jessica Lessin joins TITV for breaking news—Meta’s high-profile hiring of Dina Powell McCormick and Apple’s Siri-Gemini partnership. Next, The Information's Cory Weinberg and Michael Roddan talk with TITV Host Akash Pasricha about Motive's reliance on 400 human annotators in Pakistan to verify AI dashcam alerts. We also talk with Senior Editor Meredith Mazzilli about Google’s new AI shopping tools, Crypto Reporter Yueqi Yang about Robinhood’s massive stock lead over Coinbase, and Accelsius CEO Josh Claman about the $65M race to cool AI data centers.

Articles discussed on this episode:

https://www.theinformation.com/briefings/meta-appoints-dina-powell-mccormick-president-vice-chair

https://www.theinformation.com/articles/google-matches-openai-shopping

https://www.theinformation.com/briefings/apple-partners-google-upcoming-siri-overhaul

https://www.theinformation.com/articles/robinhood-wins-round-battle-coinbase

https://www.theinformation.com/articles/dashcam-maker-motive-touts-ai-relies-humans

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