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Brian Barrett

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Uncanny Valley | WIRED
Apple’s Next Chapter; SpaceX and Cursor Strike A Deal; Palantir’s Controversial Manifesto

But Google pays Apple's billions of dollars to be the primary search engine on the iPhone.

Uncanny Valley | WIRED
Apple’s Next Chapter; SpaceX and Cursor Strike A Deal; Palantir’s Controversial Manifesto

I think Apple's bet is that...

Uncanny Valley | WIRED
Apple’s Next Chapter; SpaceX and Cursor Strike A Deal; Palantir’s Controversial Manifesto

By building relationships with OpenAI, with Google again, with Anthropic at some point, who knows?

Uncanny Valley | WIRED
Apple’s Next Chapter; SpaceX and Cursor Strike A Deal; Palantir’s Controversial Manifesto

It can have that similar, we're just the vessel, right?

Uncanny Valley | WIRED
Apple’s Next Chapter; SpaceX and Cursor Strike A Deal; Palantir’s Controversial Manifesto

We're just the thing.

Uncanny Valley | WIRED
Apple’s Next Chapter; SpaceX and Cursor Strike A Deal; Palantir’s Controversial Manifesto

And I like their odds because all of the AI hardware that we've seen so far, I know that Sam Altman and Johnny Ive are cooking something up.

Uncanny Valley | WIRED
Apple’s Next Chapter; SpaceX and Cursor Strike A Deal; Palantir’s Controversial Manifesto

I know that everybody's got some sort of pendant or speaker or whatever that they're trying to make happen.

Uncanny Valley | WIRED
Apple’s Next Chapter; SpaceX and Cursor Strike A Deal; Palantir’s Controversial Manifesto

At the end of the day, I don't think that AI computing is going to replace your phone.

Uncanny Valley | WIRED
Apple’s Next Chapter; SpaceX and Cursor Strike A Deal; Palantir’s Controversial Manifesto

I think fundamentally, you're always going to need something with a display and apps and the broader internet versus just something you can talk to and get answers back from.

Uncanny Valley | WIRED
Apple’s Next Chapter; SpaceX and Cursor Strike A Deal; Palantir’s Controversial Manifesto

Now, there's another part of Tim Cook's legacy that I want to ask Leah about because, you know, Tim Cook, of all the Silicon Valley titans who have been friendly and made nice with Donald Trump, Tim Cook kind of stands out in a couple of ways.

Uncanny Valley | WIRED
Apple’s Next Chapter; SpaceX and Cursor Strike A Deal; Palantir’s Controversial Manifesto

One, that I think he's the only one who presented Trump with like a custom trophy.

Uncanny Valley | WIRED
Apple’s Next Chapter; SpaceX and Cursor Strike A Deal; Palantir’s Controversial Manifesto

designed by his company's engineers.

Uncanny Valley | WIRED
Apple’s Next Chapter; SpaceX and Cursor Strike A Deal; Palantir’s Controversial Manifesto

I think two things about the Ternus question specifically.

Uncanny Valley | WIRED
Apple’s Next Chapter; SpaceX and Cursor Strike A Deal; Palantir’s Controversial Manifesto

One, I think we just don't know other than I will say like he is going to be the CEO of a major company that has lots of shareholders and he has a fiduciary responsibility to make this number go up, right?

Uncanny Valley | WIRED
Apple’s Next Chapter; SpaceX and Cursor Strike A Deal; Palantir’s Controversial Manifesto

And the way that you do that is you're friendly with Donald Trump.

Uncanny Valley | WIRED
Apple’s Next Chapter; SpaceX and Cursor Strike A Deal; Palantir’s Controversial Manifesto

That's just kind of the way it is.

Uncanny Valley | WIRED
Apple’s Next Chapter; SpaceX and Cursor Strike A Deal; Palantir’s Controversial Manifesto

I'm not saying that's the way it should be, but I think the idea that he would take a

Uncanny Valley | WIRED
Apple’s Next Chapter; SpaceX and Cursor Strike A Deal; Palantir’s Controversial Manifesto

feels far-fetched regardless of what his personal feelings are.

Uncanny Valley | WIRED
Apple’s Next Chapter; SpaceX and Cursor Strike A Deal; Palantir’s Controversial Manifesto

The other thing I would say is like Tim Cook's not disappearing.

Uncanny Valley | WIRED
Apple’s Next Chapter; SpaceX and Cursor Strike A Deal; Palantir’s Controversial Manifesto

He's going to be the executive chairman.