WWDC 2026: Apple Paid Google a Billion Dollars to Teach Siri to Talk, and We're Calling This a Win

Tim Cook walked out on stage today for the last time as CEO of Apple. His farewell WWDC. His mic-drop moment. His legacy-cementation event. The press is already writing the tributes. And what did Apple deliver to mark the occasion? They paid Google — Google — roughly a billion dollars a year to make Siri not embarrassing anymore. They slapped a transparency slider on the interface disaster they…