We dive into our initial thoughts on Siri AI and Tim Cook's legacy. Executive editor Cherlynn Low is joined by tech editor Daniel Howley, senior staff writer Brenda Stolyar and Judner Aura (also known as uravgconsumer) on this special episode of the Engadget Podcast. The four talk about what really mattered at WWDC 2026, the delayed gratification of Siri AI as well as what it all means for Tim Cook's legacy.

And we answer some listener questions. Siri AI was the star of the show, of course, and we chat about how it differs from all of the other AI tools out there. Also, we dive into Apple's progress around child safety, as well as speed improvements coming to all of its platforms.

This week, we dive into the wild world of Moltbook and the OpenClaw personal AI assistant. If you haven't heard, there's now a social network for AI: Moltbook, a site that purportedly features AI agents talking to each other. That includes OpenClaw, a personal AI agent (formerly called Clawdbot and Moltbot) that's open source and free for anyone to run on their systems. In this episode, Devindra and Senior Reporter Karissa Bell discuss the rise of these services, and the potential future that AI agents may have for all of us. By subscribing, you are agreeing to Engadget's Terms and Privacy Policy .

How to claim Verizon's $20 outage credit Engadget Podcast: Why would Apple want to make an AI pin? Is there anything to gain by following this trend? Apple is reportedly working on an AI pin of its very own to compete with OpenAI's non-existent pin. No, it doesn't really make much sense to us, either . In this episode, Devindra and Engadget Managing Editor Cherlynn Low discuss why Apple might be quick to jump on the AI pin trend, even before it jumps into smart rings.

How to claim Verizon's $20 outage credit Engadget Podcast: Why did Apple choose Gemini for next-gen Siri? Apple's next-gen Siri is still far off, but this week the company announced that it'll be using Google's Gemini AI for its new foundation models. In this episode, Devindra and Engadget's Igor Bonifacic discuss why Apple teamed up with Google again, instead of OpenAI or Anthropic. Also, they chat about Meta's Reality Lab layoffs, which is refocusing the company on AI hardware like its smart glasses. Tesla's Full Self Driving is also going subscription only, a year costs $999 - 29:15 Apple announces that its long delayed'smarter Siri' will be powered by Google Gemini - 35:15 X finally responds to Grok's CSAM and nudity generation with limits - 51:46 Cursor claims their AI agents wrote 1M+ lines of code to make a web browser from scratch, are developers cooked?

This week Meta held its first-ever AI dev conference, LlamaCon, focused on the development of its Llama generative AI model. But while there was plenty of hype, not much happened, besides the launch of the Meta AI app and a new Llama API. In this episode, Engadget Senior Reporter Karissa Bell joins us to talk about her thoughts on LlamaCon after attending in person. After just announcing its latest Llama models a few weeks ago, it was as if Meta didn't have much else to say. Meta's Muted LlamaCon: who was the AI dev conference really for? NPR report: DOGE employees may have access to U.S. nuclear secrets – 26:44

This week, Engadget's Sam Rutherford dives into his experience with Google's new 499 mid-range smartphone, the Pixel 9a. Is it really the new mid-range king, as we previously predicted? Or is it worth spending more for the Pixel 9? Also, we chat about how the Trump administration's volatile tariff strategy will affect consumer technology (not to mention everything else you buy). Tariff Watch: Switch 2 preorders delayed, Razer pauses laptop sales in the U.S. – 30:27 Samsung's Ballie robot with Google Gemini arrives this Summer (allegedly) – 43:31

In this episode, we dive into Devindra's review of the excellent M4-equipped MacBook Air (and briefly chat about the new Mac Studio). We also discuss Apple's surprise announcement that it's delaying its smarter, AI-infused Siri, which may not arrive until next year. Did Apple over-promise last year, or is it wise to hold off on advanced AI features until they're ready? After all, Apple doesn't want a fiasco like Microsoft's Recall announcement. Listen below or subscribe on your podcast app of choice.

Stenqvist dives into how Volvo is thinking about new technology, and we chat a bit about how it's approaching completely autonomous vehicles. Listen below or subscribe on your podcast app of choice. If you've got suggestions or topics you'd like covered on the show, be sure to email us or drop a note in the comments! And be sure to check out our other podcast, Engadget News!

Devindra: We are here what is this, the beginning of night one of CES officially? Devindra: guess we have already suffered through basically day minus one. Devindra: One thing I want our listeners to understand is that we have already seen a lot of things we kind of know where the CES is headed. And, I think this is a cursed show Cherlynn. How do you feel about that? Yeah, I think I mean, Devindra, I'll let you speak to your situation, but we've had team members who have fallen deathly ill. We have also, like, people who have completely had to miss their flights, international flights. It's been quite Engadget team, but we have a really, really good team of people. Everyone's got great attitudes and, like, our spirits are high. You want to just get the stuff going.