Apple Just Paid Google $1B a Year to Run Siri's Brain.

Let that sink in for a second... Apple just paid Google around a billion dollars a year to run Siri's brain. The most valuable company on earth - the one whose entire mythology is: "we control the whole stack, the silicon, the software, the magic" looked at the defining technology of the decade and decided it couldn't build a good enough version itself, So it rented one. According to Bloomberg's Mark Gurman, Apple agreed to pay Google roughly $1 billion a year for a custom ~1.2-trillion-pa...