Will Apple (Finally) Get AI Right At WWDC?, Anthropic’s Worry, Microsoft vs. OpenAI

Will Apple (Finally) Get AI Right At WWDC?, Anthropic’s Worry, Microsoft vs. OpenAI

From Big Technology Podcast by Alex Kantrowitz

June 5, 2026 · 58 min

About this episode

The episode discusses Apple's AI plans at WWDC, competition between Microsoft and OpenAI, and ethical concerns surrounding Anthropic.

Ranjan Roy from Margins is back for our weekly discussion of the latest tech news. We cover: 1) Does WWDC matter, or is it all about iPhones? 2) Apple's plan to build AI into the operating system 3) Apple finally seems to be building to the technology's capabilities 4) But... Apple may still waitlist people for forthcoming features 5) Anthropic says AI might be close to being able to improve itself 6) Is that marketing? 7) Can Anthropic stay ethical as a public company? 8) Microsoft and OpenAI are now in direct competition 9) Microsoft is building models, is OpenAI building a cloud? 10) Let's go Knicks Join us for the Big Technology AI Summit: https://summit.bigtechnology.com --- Enjoying Big Technology Podcast? Please rate us five stars ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ in your podcast app of choice. Want a discount for Big Technology on Substack + Discord? Here’s 25% off for the first year: https://www.bigtechnology.com/subscribe?coupon=0843016b Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

People in this episode

Host: Alex Kantrowitz

Guest: Ranjan Roy

Topics covered

  • Apple AI
  • WWDC
  • Anthropic
  • Microsoft vs OpenAI
  • technology news

Keywords

  • Apple
  • AI
  • WWDC
  • Microsoft
  • OpenAI
  • Anthropic
  • technology news

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Apple, Anthropic, Microsoft, OpenAI

Places: Knicks

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