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AI Weekly Briefing: Siri’s Second Chance, YouTube Clones & the AI Agents Coming for Your Wallet

Podcast: The AI Breakdown
Published: Jan 28, 2026
Duration seconds: 671
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This week on The AI Breakdown, I cover the biggest AI moves in about 10 minutes from Mastercard’s agentic shopping push, to Apple’s Siri reboot, YouTube’s AI creator avatars, and Nvidia’s signals that retail AI is scaling fast.