Apple Picks Gemini 🍎
Microsoft Reports on Global AI Adoption 📓
Reid Hoffman’s 2026 Predictions for AI 🤖
Nvidia team up with Mercedes 🚗
🧑💻 Reid Hoffman’s Takes on AI in 2026
Overview: LinkedIn co-founder and PayPal mafioso, Reid Hoffman sat down with Every’s Dan Shipper to talk AI predictions for the coming year. Here are the highlights:
2026 is the year agent s break out of coding and into everything else
“AGI” will be individuals who can leverage AI to be as productive as a whole team
Businesses who fail to adopt will be left behind
AI’s luddite movement will gain momentum as tools grow stronger and discourse grows
Biology will be the next language AI learns
🍎 Apple Picks Gemini for Siri
Overview: In a multi-year contract, Google’s Gemini will power Apple’s AI features
The deal will allegedly see Apple lining Google’s coffers with a crisp billion dollar note each year
This marks another win for Google in the AI race, following Gemini’s recent out-performance of OpenAI’s latest models
🌍 The Widening Global Divide in AI Usage
Microsoft’s report on the state of AI adoption globally highlights some interesting trends and some concerning patterns.
1 in 6 people globally are using AI with the global North adopting at a rate of twice that of the global South
Open source and free-to-use models are reshaping adoption patterns in regions historically underserved by Western platforms
Countries with long-term AI strategies such as Singapore and those with strong digital infrastructure (let’s go Ireland! 🇮🇪) are dominating the rankings
The USA leads in usage but lags many smaller countries in population-level usage
🚗 Nvidia and Mercedes Team Up for Self-Driving
NVIDIA and Mercedes-Benz are partnering to build software-defined vehicles using NVIDIA DRIVE AGX as the core in-car AI computing platform.
The partnership enables advanced driver-assistance (Level 2++) in new Mercedes models like the CLA, with a roadmap toward higher levels of autonomy.
Mercedes-Benz uses NVIDIA Omniverse digital twins to simulate, design, and optimize vehicles and factories before real-world production.
😱 Beware the AI Anti-Hype
🚗 Tesla’s self-driving capabilities to be subject to a monthly subscription
🤖 Gemini gets personal
👨🦱 McConaughey fights deepfakes with self-trademark
Atlas has been a lifesaver for me this week. My killer use case has been as an API documentation assistant. I’ve been helping a client to integrate with some 3rd party software, and ramping up on the 3rd party knowledge base has been massively expedited thanks to Altman’s agentic browser.
Did you know? IBM Deep Blue became the first computer to defeat a reigning world chess champion, beating Garry Kasparov in a full match in 1997.
‘til next week 🤠
