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iOS 26.5 is out with RCS encryption and…Apple Maps Ads, a *suprising* reaction to AI at a commencement, Android 17 bringing Gemini Intelligence and new features, and possibly the dumbest Magic Mouse accessory ever.
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Didly | thatvirtualboy
Beam Browser for iPad
Gnome — Quickly Share GIFs on Your Mac
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Jason's Inc Story on Contextly
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iOS 26.5 adds end-to-end encryption for RCS messaging, rolling out now - 9to5Mac
Apple Ads is courting developers through a newly formed ‘Emerging Team’ - 9to5Mac
Introducing Googlebook, designed for Gemini Intelligence
“The Biggest Android Update Ever” - YouTube
The 9 biggest new features in Android 17 | The Verge
Alexa is moving into Amazon․com | The Verge
Today we're starting to roll out Incognito Chat with Meta AI
Introducing Instants: Share in the Moment on Instagram
University Commencement AI Clip on Bluesky
The best argument I’ve heard for why AI won't take your job
Anthropic courts a new kind of customer: small business owners | TechCrunch
Stephen Robles - The Bearded Teacher Bio Site
Apple’s iPhone 17 was the world’s best-selling smartphone in quarter one of 2026.
Apple now requires verification for Education Store, adds Apple Watch with discounts - 9to5Mac
End of an Era for Apple Edu Discount- Inc
Magic Mouses Charger Base
Apple hits milestone in development of AirPods with cameras: report - 9to5Mac
iOS 18.3 NEW Visual Intelligence Features: Finally Good? - YouTube

(00:00) - Intro

(10:03) - Contextly App is Out!

(14:55) - Sony A7R6

(17:15) - LEGO Talk

(19:37) - Apple Vision Pro

(22:59) - iOS 26.5 RCS

(27:09) - Googlebook Teased

(35:44) - Sponsor: Granola

(37:17) - Sponsor: Claude

(39:50) - Sponsor: NordLayer

(42:06) - Android 17 Features

(46:08) - Alexa on Amazon

(51:22) - New Meta Features

(01:00:43) - Gen Z Hates AI

(01:15:44) - iPhone 17 is Popular

(01:16:52) - Apple Education Discount

(01:20:11) - Personal Tech

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Apple’s record Q2 earnings, Mac Studio RAM options are dropped amid shortage, iPhone owners may get up to $95 from a Siri settlement, Anthropic to use massive SpaxeXAI data center, Utah protesting its data center, and we’re both making apps.
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Links from the show
Coffee Recipe Card Maker for Home Baristas | BrewCard
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Spirit Airlines Article - Inc
Nilay Shout Out on Bluesky
Apple announces record fiscal second quarter – Six Colors
Apple's Binary Bet
Apple Has Given Up on the Vision Pro After M5 Refresh Flop - MacRumors
Daring Fireball: On the Future of Apple’s Vision Platform
Apple's most powerful Mac Studio loses its last remaining RAM upgrade option - 9to5Mac
Apple CEO warns of memory crunch. 'We'll look at a range of options'
iPhone users could get up to $95 per device as Apple reaches $250M settlement over Siri delays - 9to5Mac
3 things to know about Kevin O'Leary's massive proposed Utah data center - Axios Salt Lake City
Kevin O'Leary's Tweet
Utah Meeting Protests - X
Higher usage limits for Claude and a compute deal with SpaceX \ Anthropic
Anthropic Taking Over All Capacity of xAl's First Memphis Data Center - 512 Pixels
Mira Murati tells the court that she couldn’t trust Sam Altman’s words | The Verge
Netflix Rolls Out Vertical Video Feed, Blurring Lines Between Streaming and Social Media
Disney+ to become ‘super app’ that goes beyond streaming service: report - 9to5Mac
US Supreme Court declines to pause order holding Apple in contempt in Epic Games lawsuit | Reuters
Video on Apple Podcasts Doubled My Plays (Case Study)
reMarkable Paper Pro Move | reMarkable
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(00:00) - Intro

(07:53) - Apple Q2 Earnings

(15:22) - Is Apple Vision Pro Dead?

(18:52) - RAMpocalypse

(27:57) - Siri Failure Payouts

(31:51) - Sponsor: CleanMyMac X

(33:29) - Sponsor: NordLayer

(35:08) - Utah Data Center Fiasco

(43:13) - Claude SpaceXAI Deal

(47:24) - Mira Murati at Elon X Altman Trial

(50:50) - Disney+ Super App

(52:40) - VOX May Be Acquired

(55:22) - SCOTUS Apple v Epic Games

(57:27) - Transistor Case Study

(01:06:15) - reMarkable Paper Pure

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Microsoft and OpenAI ammend their arrangement leaving out AGI, rumors of an OpenAI phone, NSA using Anthropic despite it being a “supply chain risk,” Apple’s 12-month App Store subscription commitment is a bad idea, and Jason’s app update!
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Knight on Polar Bear Shirt | Stephen Robles
‎Chess Peace App - App Store
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5 Hopes on John Ternus - inc.com
Jason's MacBook Neo Article
List of iPod models | Apple Wiki | Fandom
iPod shuffle (3rd generation) | Apple Wiki
Apple iPod Nano 3rd Generation
The next phase of the Microsoft-OpenAI partnership - The Official Microsoft Blog
Microsoft and OpenAI’s famed AGI agreement is dead | The Verge
OpenAI could be making a phone with AI agents replacing apps | TechCrunch
HTC First review: a Facebook phone that’s pure Google at heart | The Verge
Amazon Fire Phone: Why It Failed to Take Off
Dell Venue Pro Windows Phone
Smartphone Round Robin: Final Thoughts on Windows Mobile and the ATT Tilt | CrackBerry
Trump demands ABC fire Jimmy Kimmel | The Verge
The FCC is going after the broadcast licenses of Disney-owned ABC stations | The Verge
NSA using Anthropic's Mythos despite Defense Department blacklist
Trump officials draft plan to bring Anthropic back amid Pentagon fight
Google Lets Pentagon Use Its AI - wsj.com
Google employees ask Sundar Pichai to say no to classified military AI use | The Verge
Apple Introduces App Store Monthly Subscriptions With 12-Month Commitment - MacRumors
Elon Musk takes the stand in high-profile trial against OpenAI | The Verge
YouTube is testing an AI-powered search feature that shows guided answers | TechCrunch
Meta inks deal for solar power at night, beamed from space | TechCrunch
Stephen Robles ChatGPT Images vs Gemini - Mastodon

(00:00) - Intro

(08:21) - Jobs and Ternus Comparison

(18:09) - Microsoft X OpenAI Situationship

(27:53) - OpenAI Making a Phone

(34:20) - Brendan Carr is a Dummy

(40:48) - Pentagon Using Claude Again

(45:05) - Google Giving Pentagon Access

(46:42) - App Store 12-Month Plan

(49:46) - Elon Musk vs Sam Altman

(51:04) - Lightning Round (Introductions with MacBook Neo)

(55:01) - Jason's App Update

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Tim Cook is stepping down as Apple’s CEO on Sept 1st and John Ternus is taking the reigns. We discuss Cook’s Legacy, the last CEO transition from Jobs to Cook, and what we expect from a Ternus-led Apple. Plus, OpenAI’s new image generator is actually good, and Jason is building a wild notes app.
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The Master Engineer Taking Over Apple (and Why It Matters) - YouTube
I Tested 12 Podcast Apps - YouTube
Tim Cook’s Farewell Letter Just Revealed His Most Important Leadership Habit - Inc
Tim Cook Is Stepping Down as Apple’s CEO. He’s Keeping the Most Important Job—for Now
Optimising Vibe-Coded Next.js Applications for Performance, Crawlability and Search Success — Will Kennard
Tim Cook to become Apple Executive Chairman John Ternus to become Apple CEO - Apple
Photo from Apple’s Town Hall
Tim Cook tells employees why he chose to step down now, what's next for him - 9to5Mac
Community Letter from Tim - Apple
Johny Srouji named Apple’s Chief Hardware Officer - Apple
Daring Fireball: Another Day Has Come
OpenAI’s updated image generator can now pull information from the web | The Verge
ChatGPT Image Post on Bluesky
OpenAI updates ChatGPT with Codex-powered 'workspace agents' for teams - 9to5Mac
Google teases Gemini-powered Siri upgrade during Cloud Next keynote - 9to5Mac
Amazon invest up to $25 billion in Anthropic part of AI infrastructure
SpaceX lands deal to likely purchase Cursor, a Claude Code and OpenAI Codex competitor - 9to5Mac
Threads is adding Live Chats to boost real-time engagement | TechCrunch

(00:00) - Intro

(07:31) - Tim Cook's Legacy

(18:03) - John Ternus Era

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(42:23) - Sponsor: Claude

(43:54) - Cook's Wins and Failures

(53:58) - ChatGPT 2.0 Images

(59:57) - Lightning Round

(01:03:18) - Jason's Notes App

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Gemini launches a Mac app, Adobe Firefly brings more AI tools, Anthropic upgrades Claude Code with routines, Apple is sending Siri engineers to AI boot camp, Jason vibe coded some pretty great apps, and how genuine is Sam Altman?
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Is a $3,000 Movie Player Worth It? - YouTube
Ferrari Luce Interior - X
Allbirds announced a switch from shoes to AI and its stock jumped 600 percent | The Verge
Gemini for macOS - your native AI desktop app
Gus Mueller: "The new Mac Gemini app has a huge executable bina…" - Mastodon
DaVinci Resolve adds new photo editing tools to take on Lightroom and Photoshop | The Verge
Adobe Ushers in a New Era of Creativity with New Creative Agent and Generative AI Innovations in Adobe Firefly
Anthropic adds routines to redesigned Claude Code, here's how it works - 9to5Mac
Redesigning Claude Code on desktop for parallel agents | Claude
DoorDash Stunt - Apple News
Report: Apple to send Siri engineers to multi-week AI coding bootcamp - 9to5Mac
Amazon to buy Globalstar for $11.57B in bid to flesh out its satellite biz | TechCrunch
YouTube now lets you turn off Shorts | The Verge
$10K Apple Pay Hack - YouTube
DJI’s Osmo Pocket 4 camera is better at capturing slo-mo footage and photos | The Verge
Microsoft is testing OpenClaw-like AI bots for Copilot | The Verge
Festival for Personal AI
Apple threatened to pull Musk’s AI Grok from App Store over sexualized deepfakes | The Verge
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Sam Altman May Control Our Future—Can He Be Trusted? | The New Yorker
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(00:00) - Intro

(06:26) - Allbird AI Pivot

(10:58) - Gemini Mac App

(19:01) - Resolve 21

(21:41) - Adobe Firefly

(27:50) - Sponsor: Copilot Money

(29:33) - Sponsor: Shopify

(31:05) - Claude Mac App

(36:02) - DoorDash Stunt

(44:15) - Siri Engineers to Boot Camp

(46:02) - Amazon Buy Globalstar

(51:15) - Turn Off YouTube Shorts

(52:40) - $10K Apple Pay Hack

(55:09) - Lightning Round

(01:06:39) - How Real is Sam Altman?

(01:20:10) - Jason’s Vibe Coded Apps

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