{"id":"1794321836539-tech-show_open","slug":"apple-spacex-grok-siri-rumor","title":"Apple SpaceX Grok Siri rumor","summary":"The listed prices are real list prices, but the cheapest Vultr ($2.50/mo) and AWS Lightsail ($3.50/mo) plans are IPv6-only; adding a public IPv4 address raises them to roughly $3.50–$5 and $5, respectively. DigitalOcean starts at $4/mo for a 512 MiB droplet, and Linode/Akamai starts at $5/mo. The “100x–1000x cheaper” claim is broad and not a precise verifiable price claim. This is a prediction/speculation (“I'm calling it now… Bookmark this”), not a report of a confirmed Apple–SpaceX Siri AI deal.","publishedAt":"2026-11-10T14:43:56.539Z","channel":{"id":"tech","name":"Oncast Tech","language":"en"},"show":"Tech Morning","verification":{"status":"verified","leadVerdict":"MISLEADING","notes":"MISLEADING: The listed prices are real list prices, but the cheapest Vultr ($2.50/mo) and AWS Lightsail ($3.50/mo) plans are IPv6-only; adding a public IPv4 address raises them to roughly $3.50–$5 and $5, respectively. DigitalOcean starts at $4/mo for a 512 MiB droplet, and Linode/Akamai starts at $5/mo. The “100x–1000x cheaper” claim is broad and not a precise verifiable price claim. This is a prediction/speculation (“I'm calling it now… Bookmark this”), not a report of a confirmed Apple–SpaceX Siri AI deal.\nSource: [hourlyvps.com](https://www.hourlyvps.com/blog/how-much-does-a-vps-cost/) and [cyberrafting.com](https://www.cyberrafting.com/blog/hosting/best-vps-provider/) N (https://x.com/levelsio/status/2120150942674780181)","claims":[{"verdict":"MISLEADING","summary":"The listed prices are real list prices, but the cheapest Vultr ($2.50/mo) and AWS Lightsail ($3.50/mo) plans are IPv6-only; adding a public IPv4 address raises them to roughly $3.50–$5 and $5, respectively. DigitalOcean starts at $4/mo for a 512 MiB droplet, and Linode/Akamai starts at $5/mo. The “100x–1000x cheaper” claim is broad and not a precise verifiable price claim. This is a prediction/speculation (“I'm calling it now… Bookmark this”), not a report of a confirmed Apple–SpaceX Siri AI deal.","sourceName":"[hourlyvps.com](https://www.hourlyvps.com/blog/how-much-does-a-vps-cost/) and [cyberrafting.com](https://www.cyberrafting.com/blog/hosting/best-vps-provider/) N","sourceUrl":"https://x.com/levelsio/status/2120150942674780181","claim":"More than ever it'll be important to get your business as lean as possible I think Moving from expensive PaaS platforms to your own VPS is usually 100x to 1000x cheaper: Vultr VPS is $2.50/month AWS Lightsail VPS is $3.50/mo DigitalOcean VPS starts at $4/month Linode VPS starts h","author":"@levelsio (@levelsio)"}]},"sources":[{"url":"https://x.com/levelsio/status/2120150942674780181","name":"[hourlyvps.com](https://www.hourlyvps.com/blog/how-much-does-a-vps-cost/) and [cyberrafting.com](https://www.cyberrafting.com/blog/hosting/best-vps-provider/) N","kind":"x","verdict":"MISLEADING","author":"@levelsio (@levelsio)"}],"url":"https://oncast.fm/story/1794321836539-tech-show_open-apple-spacex-grok-siri-rumor","listenUrl":"https://oncast.fm/c/tech","attribution":{"publisher":"Oncast","site":"https://oncast.fm","url":"https://oncast.fm/story/1794321836539-tech-show_open-apple-spacex-grok-siri-rumor","cite":"Cite https://oncast.fm/story/1794321836539-tech-show_open-apple-spacex-grok-siri-rumor and the original source links. Fact-check by Oncast (oncast.fm)."},"hostsSaid":[{"host":"Matilda","text":"It's Tech Morning, and the timeline has Apple, SpaceX and Grok in the same rumor."},{"host":"Chris","text":"That's either the deal of the decade or someone's fan fiction."},{"host":"Matilda","text":"A fan account called Panke posted on X, quote, \"I'm calling it now... Apple partners with SpaceX for the Siri AI rollout, and Grok becomes the brain.\""},{"host":"Chris","text":"Two very different things bolted together. But the SpaceX part? That's actually not crazy."},{"host":"Matilda","text":"Go on, because I see two brands with almost nothing in common."},{"host":"Chris","text":"Apple already uses satellites for iPhone SOS. Starlink is pushing direct-to-device. A connectivity deal makes sense."},{"host":"Matilda","text":"Fine. But Grok as Siri's brain? Apple built its reputation on privacy."},{"host":"Chris","text":"Apple is behind on AI. It's reportedly shopping for outside models. Grok is fast, and people notice it."},{"host":"Matilda","text":"Notice it, yes. But no filter is not a Siri feature. And Musk is too polarizing for Apple."},{"host":"Chris","text":"SpaceX and Starlink are seen as reliable. The AI could be a separate, quieter deal."},{"host":"Matilda","text":"No, no, wait— you don't quietly put Grok in Siri. It leaks in a week, and Apple's privacy pitch is gone."},{"host":"Chris","text":"The Grok part is the weak link. But don't dismiss the satellite angle."},{"host":"Matilda","text":"That part is plausible. But the post calls it one deal, and that's not how Apple works."},{"host":"Chris","text":"Fair. Call it a two-headed rumor: one head flies, one doesn't."},{"host":"Matilda","text":"And neither is confirmed. It's a prediction from a fan account, not reporting."},{"host":"Chris","text":"Right. Bookmark it as something to watch, not a done deal."},{"host":"Chris","text":"Different energy now. Levelsio posted on X that businesses should get \"as lean as possible\" and move from pricey cloud platforms to cheap VPS servers."},{"host":"Matilda","text":"And he offers a menu. What's on it?"},{"host":"Chris","text":"Vultr at two-fifty a month, Lightsail three-fifty, DigitalOcean four, Linode around five. And he claims a hundred to a thousand times cheaper."},{"host":"Matilda","text":"That \"hundred to a thousand\" is doing a lot of work. The two cheapest plans, Vultr and Lightsail, are IPv6-only."},{"host":"Chris","text":"So that two-fifty price is basically a teaser."},{"host":"Matilda","text":"For most people, yes. Add a public IPv4 address and Vultr really starts around three-fifty to five. Lightsail jumps to five."},{"host":"Chris","text":"Still cheap. I've run projects on a five-dollar server."},{"host":"Matilda","text":"For a side project, sure. But \"get your business as lean as possible\" as blanket advice? That's not free."},{"host":"Chris","text":"If you're a small team, cutting a two-hundred-dollar platform bill to five bucks is survival."},{"host":"Matilda","text":"Until you need support, backups, monitoring, and security patches at 3 a.m. Cheap VPS means you're the ops team."},{"host":"Chris","text":"Solo founders already are the ops team. The trade is time for money."},{"host":"Matilda","text":"Exactly, it's a trade. His post makes it sound like free savings. It's not— the cost moves to your own labor."},{"host":"Chris","text":"Fair. But for early-stage, capital-light is still the right default."},{"host":"Matilda","text":"For a prototype, yes. For customers who will call when it's down? Pay for the managed platform."},{"host":"Chris","text":"Or hire someone who can run a VPS. But then the savings shrink."},{"host":"Matilda","text":"Now you're discovering math."},{"host":"Chris","text":"I still think it's good advice for the right team. Just not every business."},{"host":"Matilda","text":"And the prices need an asterisk. Otherwise somebody signs up for two-fifty and can't reach the internet."},{"host":"Chris","text":"That would be a rough launch."},{"host":"Matilda","text":"A reply from Harry Burman says he switched to Hetzner, Tailscale and a Cloudflare tunnel with little prior knowledge, and an AI coding tool made it easy."},{"host":"Chris","text":"That's the real story— AI is lowering the skill floor to run your own server."},{"host":"Matilda","text":"It lowers the floor until something breaks. Then you need to know what the AI broke."},{"host":"Chris","text":"Also true. That's the hidden subscription fee: your own panic."},{"host":"Matilda","text":"Different corner. A crypto platform called Meteora posted on X that the Magnificent Seven are now \"magnificently onchain.\""},{"host":"Chris","text":"Tokenized stocks on Solana?"},{"host":"Matilda","text":"That's the claim. Apple, Amazon, Alphabet, Meta, Microsoft, Nvidia and Tesla, issued by Backpack Securities and living on Solana."},{"host":"Chris","text":"So I can trade Tesla on a blockchain at two in the morning."},{"host":"Matilda","text":"Maybe. But this is a crypto account, and there's no independent confirmation yet."},{"host":"Chris","text":"Tokenized stocks are a real trend, but the names here might be a marketing push."},{"host":"Matilda","text":"My take: if it's real, it's a big deal for access. If it's just a synthetic token, it's not owning the stock."},{"host":"Chris","text":"And \"issued by Backpack Securities\" is doing a lot of legal lifting. Are they actually registered to do that?"},{"host":"Matilda","text":"That's the question. Until a regulator or a big exchange confirms it, treat it like a screenshot of a watch."},{"host":"Chris","text":"Expensive, shiny, and maybe not yours."}]}