Big Technology Podcast · Alex Kantrowitz

Why OpenAI Killed Sora, Did Apple Just Save Siri?, Meta’s Big Loss

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Anthropic says its leaked model is a “step change” and “the most capable we’ve built to date.”

OpenAI opens the show. The host says the company is backing away from video generation, and the move is treated as a clue about its larger ambitions rather than just a single product call. Apple comes next. The conversation turns to a plan to make a bunch of AI assistants available in Siri, which pushes the assistant question back onto a product millions of people already use. Meta follows. Its landmark court loss is framed as another problem the company may have to live with, and the show uses it to broaden the conversation beyond launch cycles and model demos. New model talk comes next. The host says there are a couple of new models coming from OpenAI and Anthropic, and that people on the inside are buzzing about what they could mean. Anthropic gets the longer look. A Fortune story is used to explain that the company acknowledged testing a new model after an accidental data leak revealed it, and that it is already being trialed by early access customers. The leak matters. Anthropic says the model is a step change in capability and its most capable work so far, which gives the episode a concrete reason to slow down on the usual model hype. Names get messy too. The leaked material points to more than one name for the model, and the show treats that as a reminder that frontier releases can look messy before they are fully out in the open. Performance comes up. The company says the model scores much higher than its previous best on software coding, academic reasoning, and cybersecurity tests, which is the kind of detail that gives a launch story some weight. Security comes up too. Anthropic also says the model may pose unprecedented cybersecurity risks, and the host keeps pressing on what that means for the people building and deploying these systems. The pace stays brisk. By the end, the episode feels like a practical pass through a week of AI and platform moves, with the host asking what each one means for users, companies, and the broader race.

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A brisk Friday roundup of OpenAI, Siri, Meta, and the next wave of model news.

Big Technology Podcast's Friday edition ties together OpenAI's retreat from video generation, Apple's push to make more AI assistants available in Siri, and Meta's court loss into a swift read on where the week's AI and platform story is heading.

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OpenAI gives up on video generation, Apple pushes more AI assistants into Siri, and Meta takes a legal hit in one compact run.

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