 Microsoft CEO Sacha Nadella met with Apple CEO Tim Cook in 2016 to discuss investing multi-billions of dollars in a deal to replace Google as the search engine on iOS. Bloomberg sources report that in 2020, Microsoft pitched Eddie Q on the idea of selling Bing to Apple. And that's the thing making all the big headlines today. People have noticed over the last couple of years an Apple bot actually crawling people's websites as well, leading to speculation that maybe Apple was creating and designing their own search engine in-house. Perhaps this Apple bot was using to train their large language model, which again is rumored to maybe someday make Siri smart, finally.