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Google and Apple’s $20 billion deal
Plus: How to create AI Avatar in minutes
Poonam Soni
September 05, 2025
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Welcome to AI Toast!
Today’s Menu:
Are Google & Apple becoming BFFs?
Atlassian now owns the browser company?
Superhero tools for sales automation
You can now make AI avatar that looks and acts like a real person.
Quick AI Toasts: OpenAI to compete with LinkedIn
Total read time: About 4 minutes, perfect for a quick coffee break.
Apple and Google are joining forces to turbocharge Siri using Google’s Gemini AI, reshaping the future of voice assistants. This collaboration, worth billions, signals a dramatic tech power shift even though Google wasn’t Apple’s first pick.
Apple and Google have struck a deal to power Siri’s 2026 overhaul with Google’s Gemini model.
This builds on their existing $20 billion search partnership, deepening tech dependence.
Apple initially evaluated Anthropic’s Claude AI, which performed better in internal tests.
Google won the deal by offering more favorable financial terms than Anthropic’s steep price.
Gemini model will boost Siri’s summarization, running on Apple’s Private Cloud Compute.
The upgraded Siri aims to match or surpass AI rivals like ChatGPT and Perplexity AI.
Apple will use its own tech for personal data search, but Google steps in for web and planning.
Despite federal scrutiny and falling Apple search queries, the companies are tightening ties.
The new Siri, launching with iOS 26.4, will blend text, photos, video, local info, and AI smarts.
Apple and Google aren’t competing, they’re choosing synergy over rivalry to define the next era of AI.
Personal Take: This partnership marks a big mindset reset for Big Tech: the old “Apple vs Google” story is fading fast. In the AI race, friend and foe change daily.
With Apple choosing Google Gemini over OpenAI even after testing ChatGPT for Siri, OpenAI faces a critical inflection point. They’re no longer the only hotshot in Apple’s AI plans.
This move could spark OpenAI to aggressively evolve ChatGPT’s features for mobile, making it indispensable not just as an assistant, but as a platform, showing it can play well with (or outshine) both Apple and Google in an AI-powered world.
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Atlassian just announced the acquisition of The Browser Company, creators of Dia and Arc, marking a game-changing move to reinvent the work browser for the AI era. This partnership aims to build a browser designed not just for browsing, but for actually getting work done.
Why now? Traditional browsers weren’t built for today’s SaaS-driven, task-filled work life or the current AI revolution.
Atlassian’s vision: Reimagine Dia as a “doing” browser, where tabs don’t just sit idle but help push tasks forward.
Key features to expect: Deep SaaS optimization, AI-powered work memory, seamless app/task integration, and enterprise-grade security.
Market impact: With 85% of enterprise work already in browsers yet under 10% using secure, work-first browsers this move is a big leap towards mainstream adoption making this as a real competition to the likes of Chrome & Firefox.
Big promise: Teams get a dedicated, intelligent browser experience designed to boost productivity and security.
This acquisition isn’t just about products merging; it’s about fundamentally upgrading how digital work gets orchestrated.
Personal Take: The future of work inside browsers just got real. If Atlassian can pull this off, Dia could set a standard transforming browsers from passive portals to proactive teammates for every knowledge worker.
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Superhero Tools (Sales Automation)
Regie.ai: All-in-one AI-powered sales outreach and automation platform that helps you manage every step of your sales workflow with smart content, analytics, and automated engagement.
Zapier Agents: Lets you create custom AI agents that automate lead management, notifications, and sales tasks across thousands of apps—so nothing falls through the cracks.
Avoma: AI meeting assistant that automatically captures notes, summarizes calls, and provides actionable insights for your sales meetings.
Lavender: Smart AI email coach for sales teams that helps you write better sales emails, get more replies, and train your team with real-time feedback.
Dialpad: AI-powered communications and sales platform that gives real-time call coaching, automatic transcriptions, and intelligent analytics to help sales teams close more deals.
Quick AI News Bites
An AI model called VaxSeer has outperformed the World Health Organization in picking flu vaccine strains, which could help boost vaccine effectiveness. The study shows that machine learning can better match vaccines to the fast-changing flu virus and may reduce the number of hospitalizations due to influenza.
Warner Bros. Discovery has filed a lawsuit against Midjourney, an AI company, for generating images of protected characters like Superman and Batman using its AI tools. The media giant argues that Midjourney makes unauthorized copies and derivatives of its intellectual property, drawing legal concern over "virtual vending machine" AI generators.
OpenAI has announced plans to launch an AI-powered hiring platform called OpenAI Jobs Platform by mid-2026 to compete with LinkedIn. The platform will use AI to match candidates and employers, and offer a certification program to help people demonstrate their AI fluency.
Mistral AI, a French startup, is close to raising €2 billion at a valuation of $14 billion, making it one of Europe’s top tech companies. The company, founded by ex-DeepMind and Meta researchers, builds open-source language models and an AI chatbot tailored for European users.
Google Photos is now letting free users turn their images into four-second videos using Veo 3, Google’s upgraded video generation tool. With features like “Subtle movements” and “I’m feeling lucky,” users can bring their static photos to life with simple animated effects.
Making super-realistic AI avatars
Open JoggAI AvatarX and make an account or log in if you already have one.
Pick how you want to start. Choose to upload your own photo or select an avatar from the library.
Upload your photo (or choose an avatar). Use a clear, front-facing picture for best results.
Type your script or upload your voice. Enter what you want your avatar to say, or add your voice for lifelike results.
Set the emotions and gestures. Choose how you want your avatar to feel and act (happy, confident, etc.).
Preview the animation. Check what it looks like and make changes if needed.
Click to generate your video, then download it when ready.
Share the video anywhere. Use it for social media, marketing, or presentations.
That’s it! You now have a realistic AI avatar that looks and acts like a real person.
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— Poonam Soni