Pentagon Picks OpenAI, Apple Rebuilds Siri with Gemini, and AI Ethics Backlash Grows
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Pentagon Picks OpenAI, Apple Rebuilds Siri with Gemini, and AI Ethics Backlash Grows
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On the March 4, 2026 Digital Focus Podcast, host John Suder covers five top stories: the Department of Defense blacklisted Anthropic after it walked away from a contract seeking hard limits on mass surveillance and automated weapons, while OpenAI took the deal and Sam Altman said such decisions belong to elected officials; Apple announced a rebuilt AI-powered Siri targeting March 2026 with iOS 26.4, powered by Google’s 1.2T-parameter Gemini via Apple’s Private Cloud Compute, as Samsung aims for 800M Gemini devices by end of 2026; Nvidia will invest $4B in photonics firms (Mellanox and Coherent) to push optical networking for AI data centers; hundreds marched in London’s King’s Cross in the largest anti-AI protest yet; and Brown University research found chatbots like ChatGPT often fail core ethical standards when acting as therapists.
00:00 Intro
00:15 Pentagon Contract Drama
01:36 Apple Rebuilds Siri
02:50 Nvidia Goes Photonics
04:00 London Anti AI March
05:25 Chatbots as Therapists
06:37 Wrap Up