New Siri = Gemini, Elon's $1 Trillion, Twitter ghost traffic + more!

Duration: 07:07

Timestamps:

0:00 drink the news goo and be happy

0:11 Apple's $1B Gemini deal for Siri

1:07 Elon's $1T pay package

2:37 Twitter preloads 'ghost traffic'

3:46 QUICK BITS INTRO

4:02 GTA 6 delayed again

4:40 Meta weighs scam ad profits

5:31 Hyundai IT services breach

6:13 Tinder's camera-roll-scanning feature

NEWS SOURCES:

MAINS

IS SIRI A GEMINI?

Gurman says Apple nears $1 billion-a year deal to use Google AI for Siri

https://lmg.gg/5U5xA

Make joke about how google pays apple 20B a year for Search to be the default on Safari, and under this supposed deal, Apple would pay one billion of that back to Google to continue pretending that it made Siri better

Reference for Google paying apple 20B a year: https://www.theverge.com/news/769599/google-apple-search-deal-us-doj-antitrust-case-remedies

https://www.cnet.com/tech/services-and-software/apple-to-pay-google-1-billion-per-year-for-siris-custom-gemini-ai-model-report-says/

https://9to5mac.com/2025/11/05/google-gemini-1-billion-deal-apple-siri/

THE TRILLION DOLLAR MAN

Tesla shareholders approve Elon Musk’s $1T pay package

https://www.cnbc.com/2025/11/06/tesla-shareholders-musk-pay.html

It’s complicated, but the gist is that shareholders approved a plan to give Elon stock worth $1 trillion dollars over the next decade, provided he hits a number of milestones, including:

https://www.votetesla.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/Tesla-Shareholder-Presentation-10-6-25.pdf

Highlight Page 10, “20M Tesla Vehicles Delivered

10M Active FSD Subscriptions

1M Bots Delivered

1M Robotaxis in Commercial Operation”

Tesla to begin Cybercab production in April, Musk claims, which is worrisome because Elon hasn’t always made deadlines

https://eletric-vehicles.com/tesla/tesla-to-begin-cybercab-production-in-april-2026-as-robotaxi-service-prepares-expansion/

For example, Tesla delays reveal of production Roadster 2 to April Fools’ Day (They’re pranking us!)

https://techcrunch.com/2025/11/06/tesla-delays-reveal-of-production-roadster-2-to-april-fools-day/

BUT, he might sell a bunch of robots cause Elon Musk says let criminals out of prison and give them a robot stalker instead

https://electrek.co/2025/11/06/elon-musk-says-let-criminals-out-of-prison-and-give-them-a-robot-stalker-instead/

https://www.jalopnik.com/2019380/elon-musk-gets-1-trillion-dollar-pay-package-crazy-promises/

TRAFFIC SLAM

Twitter appears to be sending fake traffic across the web–preloading links and media

https://www.theverge.com/news/816451/x-fake-traffic-preloading-links-bluesky-substack

Alternative Source:

https://www.webpronews.com/xs-ghost-traffic-preloading-ploy-inflates-metrics-sparks-web-feud/

Substack traffic being low, then spiking https://x.com/cjgbest/status/1985464687350485092

Twitter post showing the change: https://x.com/nikitabier/status/1979994223224209709

QUICK BITS

AH SH*T, HERE WE GO AGAIN.

GTAVI delayed, again

https://www.pcgamer.com/games/action/grand-theft-auto-6-is-delayed-to-november-these-extra-months-will-allow-us-to-finish-the-game-with-the-level-of-polish-you-have-come-to-expect-and-deserve/

Alternative Source: https://www.thegamebusiness.com/p/grand-theft-auto-vi-delayed-again

Rockstar Games says fired employees were leaking information–was it union busting?

Bloomberg: https://lmg.gg/0LPVJ

IGN:

https://www.ign.com/articles/gta-6-studio-rockstar-accuses-fired-employees-of-leaking-confidential-information-in-a-public-forum

SCAMBOT APOCALYPSE

Report exposes how Meta relied on scam ad profits to fund AI

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/11/bombshell-report-exposes-how-meta-relied-on-scam-ad-profits-to-fund-ai/

Original reporting

https://www.reuters.com/investigations/meta-is-earning-fortune-deluge-fraudulent-ads-documents-show-2025-11-06/

Documents say Meta weighed the impact of removing ads and losing revenue vs. keeping the ads and getting fined by regulators

https://lmg.gg/0HhLZ

HYUN-DICEY SITUATION

Hyundai IT services breach potentially impacts 2.7 million Hyundai, Kia owners (Exposed data includes Social Security numbers and driver’s licenses)

https://cybernews.com/news/hyundai-autoever-america-it-services-customer-data-breach-2-million-kia/

Alternative source: https://www.techradar.com/pro/security/hyundai-it-services-breach-could-put-2-7-million-hyundai-kia-owners-at-risk

Highlight the “Hyundai AutoEver America, LLC” line of page 187 showing what was breached

https://www.mass.gov/doc/data-breach-report-2025/download

MATCHMAKER, MATCHMAKER MAKE ME A MATCH!

Tinder’s AI can find better matches by scanning your camera roll

https://www.theverge.com/news/815286/tinder-ai-chemistry-camera-roll-feature-test

Post from tinder about the feature: https://lmg.gg/lJr8K

Earning’s report with mention of Chemistry on page 3: https://s203.q4cdn.com/993464185/files/doc_financials/2025/q3/MTCH-3Q-2025-Prepared-Remarks-vFinal.pdf