Siri won’t be your AI girlfriend

Thomas Ricker • June 12, 2026 ‘Listen, that’s not what I’m here for.’ | Image: Apple Our early testing has already shown that Siri AI knows when to shut up, and that’s very much by design. In an interview with Mostly Human spotted by MacRumors, Craig Federighi said Apple’s new Siri won’t act all sycophantic

The “steroid olympics” were a circus—and a window into our culture

Amit Katwala • June 10, 2026 Testosterone. Methenolone. Nandrolone. Human growth hormone and EPO. Meldonium, modafinil, and mixed amphetamine salts. Clomiphene, anastrozole, levothyroxine, and liothyronine. Patches and capsules, creams and pills. A whole galaxy of steroids, metabolic modulators, and synthetic hormones coursing through the blood of a few dozen swimmers, sprinters, and weightlifters. And millions of

Apple says its AI is still private, even when it’s running on Google’s servers

Andrew Cunningham • June 9, 2026 CUPERTINO, California—Apple announced earlier this year that its long-delayed Siri upgrade, announced this week as “Siri AI,” would use Google’s Gemini language models. What the company confirmed at its Worldwide Developers Conference yesterday was that it also ran on Nvidia hardware installed in Google servers. But the company is