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EPISODE · Mar 24, 2026 · 5 MIN

Apple Ditches OpenAI + $1.2B Robot Week | AI News in 5

from The AI Why with Liam Lawson · host Liam Lawson

Apple confirms Google Gemini will power the new Siri — dropping OpenAI as the default on a billion devices. GPT-5.4 Thinking becomes the first AI to beat the human baseline at navigating a computer. Yann LeCun raises $1.03B in the largest seed round in European history to build a new kind of AI. Robotics companies pull in $1.2B in a single week. And the U.S. Department of Energy puts $293M behind AI for national challenges. Partner Links Book Enterprise AI Training — https://www.upscaile.com/ Subscribe to our free newsletter — https://www.theaireport.ai/subscribe Get our free AI resource pack — https://community.theaireport.ai/checkout/the-ai-report-welcome-gift?coupon_code=WRTH Connect with Liam — https://www.linkedin.com/in/not-the-f1-driver-liam-lawson/ About The AI Why: The AI Why breaks down what's actually happening in AI — who's building it, how it's being deployed, and why the people building it do what they do. New episodes every Tuesday (AI News in 5) and Thursday (founder and exec interviews). Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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