Alphabet subsidiary Google confirmed that it has entered a multiyear deal with Apple to power the company’s “Apple Intelligence” artificial intelligence technology, including the Siri voice assistant.
“After careful evaluation, Apple determined that Google’s Al technology provides the most capable foundation for Apple Foundation Models and is excited about the innovative new experiences it will unlock for Apple users,” Google said Monday in a post on the X social media network. Terms of the agreement weren’t disclosed.
Reuters:
The latest agreement builds on a years-long partnership that makes Google the default search engine on Apple devices – a lucrative arrangement that drives traffic for Google while generating tens of billions in annual revenue for Apple.
News of the deal helped power Alphabet’s market valuation above $4 trillion on Monday. The stock, up 0.5% in afternoon trading, jumped 65% last year on growing investor optimism about its efforts including its latest Gemini 3 AI model.
“Apple Intelligence will continue to run on Apple devices and Private Cloud Compute, while maintaining Apple’s industry-leading privacy standards,” Google said on Monday.
MacDailyNews Note: Here’s Google’s official statement:
Apple and Google have entered into a multi-year collaboration under which the next generation of Apple Foundation Models will be based on Google's Gemini models and cloud technology. These models will help power future Apple Intelligence features, including a more personalized…
— News from Google (@NewsFromGoogle) January 12, 2026
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Coupling with a proven info-deviant, when you claim to be info-secure is a befuddling riddle…esp when it’s likely to involve intrusiveness and power beyond understanding.
That’s why Apple is building its own applications and running the services on its own servers.
It would be nice to get that guaranteed from Apple in writing.
Unfortunately the fine print from Apple doesn’t actually match the trite public statements of the executives.
Google lost my trust decades ago but Apple’s not demonstrating great performance.
Try this: turn off all the location services settings on your iPhone , and choose any and all privacy settings that Apple offers. Now search about a popular global commodity product. I guarantee you that Apple and its partner advertisers will push location-specific ads or “results” urging you to buy at a retailer located near where you are. Apple long ago renegged on its promise of privacy. All software now is an ad engine, and Apple has cooperated with Google on that since iOS was released.
Apple says they don’t profit from the data they skim from you. Well sure, they have always just given it for free to Google et al. In return for this charity, Google pays Apple to make its search engine the default choice, which the vast majority of users are too lazy to switch.
You are not anonymous to Apple or Google, or your mobile carrier or your ISP so stop pretending Apple gives a shite about your desire to be treated as anything more than a marketing target.
Under Steve Jobs leader Apple was able to bring out …. The iPhone and the OS that powered it which left Google scrambling in the dust trying to keep up.
How times have changed.
Under Tim Cook Apple is forced to partner with Google just to try to keep up in the AI race.
Apple has always worked with Google… Specially in search !
The same way Apple needed Microsoft to grow
That was then, this is now.
That being said, Apple has clearly chosen NOT to compete in AI. They chose long ago not to make their own search engine. And that’s totally fine by me. The end user should have 100% control over what apps are loaded onto the OS. I don’t want the internet browser nor the search engine nor AI nor any marketing phone-home spyware baked into the OS. If you want it, go ahead and install it on your Mac.
Sadly, Apple tipped its hand when it created iOS. The Mac is a personal computer OS, which actually up until now has been fairly good about letting the user have final control. iOS has never done this. It’s laden with marketing info gathering tools that the user cannot turn off. YOU are the product with all mobile OSes. All AI will do is supercharge the propaganda and misinformation you get. Have fun, lemmings.
Rewrote the press release:
After careful evaluation, Apple determined that it cannot innovate. But we knew that. Now, we see they cannot iterate their way out of a paper bag any more.
In fact, we are thrilled that Apple no longer follows Steve Jobs dictum that Apple must control the technologies central to their product development.
We are further thrilled that Apple has allowed Google to expropriate value from every Apple device and to hand to us the future of MACos. Thank Tim Apple. You just couldn’t get it done, could you, you moron and idiot.
With this deal Apple is clearly abandoning it’s, “You are not the product we’re selling.”, stance.
Major players within Apple have recently left Apple because of this when this deal was pending. Now we all know why.
How stupid of you Apple to make this deal with the devil better known as Google!