{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"AI Neanderthal by Malcolm Werchota","title":"#24 - The iPhone That Thinks in Google. Europe Gets the Car Without the Engine — and a 24-Hour Clock Starts Friday","html":"<iframe width=\"100%\" height=\"180\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\" seamless src=\"https://share.transistor.fm/e/8a7192dd\"></iframe>","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":1287,"description":"Imagine you buy a Mercedes S-Class and the dealer tells you the engine this year comes from Lada. And if you want it delivered to Austria, it comes without the engine. That is the new iPhone: a $2,100 to $3,000 phone whose Siri runs on Google's Gemini — and in the EU, no Siri AI at all.\n\nRecorded before John Ternus walked on stage for his first keynote as Apple's CEO. Today: who gets the good Siri and who doesn't, why ChatGPT hallucinates more in Hindi than in English, what an AI-written national AI policy did to South Africa, and a 24-hour clock that starts on Friday for everyone in Europe selling anything with a plug and a chip — including a toaster with Wi-Fi.\n\nIn this episode:\n🍏 The iPhone that thinks in Google (02:58) — \"Surprise and shine\", Ternus's first keynote, the iPhone 18 Pro and the first folding iPhone. Apple is not a frontier-model house, so it reportedly pays Google about $1 billion a year for a custom Gemini. The rollout map: English only, China excluded, and no Siri AI on the iPhone in the EU — Apple blames the Digital Markets Act. Malcolm's take: expect many more \"later in the EU\" launches while the political pressure lasts.\n🌍 Safe in English only (08:03) — a third of ChatGPT users ask it about their health; so does Malcolm. Sumiya Khan, 16, New Delhi, asked in Hindi about constant fatigue and was told it was stress. It was iron-deficiency anaemia. A Rest of World investigation: guardrails hold in English and slip in low-resource languages. In Tigrinya, spoken by 9 million people, machine translation turned smallpox into syphilis and \"intravenous antibiotics\" into \"intravenous insecticides\". If your company chatbot serves ten countries, it is not the same chatbot in Hungarian or Hebrew.\n🏛️ Zurich and South Africa (12:26) — on Monday the ETH Zürich hosted its first AI Governance Forum with the Council of Europe, on the road to the Geneva AI Summit 2027: human rights, control, many disciplines at one table. And the counter-example: South Africa's...","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/0Up7tcMuVZ4o57Iv4ifZS1RwZ9v586rtihtmL6xMbcU/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS9hMjM5/YzFjODNkNmY4NDNk/MDllMDE5NGQ3MjE4/NTM3ZS5wbmc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}