China AI Digest (Jun 21, 2026)

Three podcasts, one gap — the distance between a model that can do something and one that actually gets it done. AI Weekly Talk traces Siri from defence-lab "execution engine" to a decade fenced in by Apple's walls, and asks whether the new App-Intents Siri can finally read your screen and act. Valley 101 anatomises Silicon Valley's hottest new job, the Forward Deployment Engineer, as OpenAI and Anthropic partner with private equity to push AI out of the demo and into real enterprises. And What's Next sits down with chip historian Wang Bo, who argues Moore's Law was always a self-fulfilling prophecy — and that the technologies which change the world are the ones nobody believes in at first.