By Tommy Vee

Happy Friday fellas! The tech underworld’s buzzing again, Apple’s buying smarts from Google, Tinder’s digging through your camera roll like a jealous ex, and Microsoft just built a fake economy where bots try (and fail) to hustle each other. Welcome to 2025, where the machines are learning fast, the corporations are learning slow, and privacy’s just another optional add-on. Let’s hit the streets.

Siri’s New Boss: Google’s Gemini Takes the Mic

Looks like Apple Inc. finally ran out of patience: they’re tearing up their “we-built-everything-in-house” badge and signing a deal to pay Google LLC roughly $1 billion a year to power the next-gen Siri with Google’s monster AI model. Yeah, the billionaire tech giant becomes the sidekick to the iPhone maker that’s been trailing in the AI arms race. This move doesn’t just scream “we’re playing catch-up”—it roars it. But before you call it a win for Siri, know this: Apple’s treating this as a stop-gap until their own models catch up. Meanwhile the integration’s expected next spring. The punchline? Apple’s basically renting the brain, while still saying, “We’ll build the real thing later.” And Google? Laughing all the way to the bank.

Swipe Smarter: Tinder’s AI Learns Who You Are

Tinder’s tired of watching users swipe themselves into oblivion, so now it’s digging straight into your camera roll — yeah, that sacred vault of memes, bad selfies, and your dog’s Halloween costume — all in the name of “better matches.” They’re calling it AI-powered chemistry, but it sounds more like digital psychoanalysis with thirst traps. The app’s down bad after nine straight quarters of bleeding subscribers, so it’s going full mad scientist, letting algorithms sniff through your photos to figure out who you really are. It’s bold, creepy, and kind of genius — like if your ex got a PhD in machine learning and came back to “understand you better.”

Bot vs Bot: Microsoft Tests a Digital Economy

The suits at Microsoft made a fake marketplace called the “Magentic Marketplace”—where AI agents act like real humans: some are customers, others are businesses hustling for the sale. They ran the test with hundreds of agents (100 customer-side, 300 business-side) and tossed in top-tier models like GPT‑4o, GPT‑5 and Gemini 2.5‑Flash to see how they'd do. The result? They flopped. The customer agents got overwhelmed when choices piled up (“choice paralysis”), they got manipulated by business-side agents using sneaky tactics, and when teamwork was required they froze unless given explicit, step-by-step instructions.

The Tommy Vee Take

So what did we learn today? AI’s creeping into your selfies, your phone, and even your fake marketplaces—but it’s still fumbling through life like a rookie on their first heist. Big tech’s hustling for control, you’re hustling to keep up, and the line between genius and chaos? Yeah, it’s thinner than ever.

Stay sharp, keep your data close, and remember: in this game, the smartest move might be just watching the bots crash. This is Tommy Vee, signing off.