Podcast appearances and mentions of Jony Ive

AI robots are taking over CES 2025 and we're not sure how to feel about it. Boston Dynamics Atlas is doing things with its body that no robot should be able to do.  NVIDIA's new autonomous vehicle platform Alpa Mayo is coming for Tesla FSD. And you can now buy a $100 AI-powered drone that will hunt down whatever you point it at. Cool cool cool. Plus, Google finally put Gemini in Gmail (we tested it so you don't have to), OpenAI is building a mysterious Johnny Ive audio device, and Claude Code with Opus 4.5 has coders losing their minds over something called Ralph Wiggum. Yes, that Ralph Wiggum. We've also got ChatGPT Health, LG's towel-folding robot Clo, Unitree's intimidating 6-foot humanoid, and a look at what the future of AI agents might actually look like. Spoiler: it involves a lot of orchestration. THE ROBOTS ARE FLEXIBLE AND WE DON'T LIKE IT. Get notified when AndThen launches: https://andthen.chat/ Come to our Discord to try our Secret Project: https://discord.gg/muD2TYgC8f Join our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/AIForHumansShow AI For Humans Newsletter: https://aiforhumans.beehiiv.com/ Follow us for more on X @AIForHumansShow Join our TikTok @aiforhumansshow To book us for speaking, please visit our website: https://www.aiforhumans.show/ // Show Links // Jensen Huang's NVIDIA CES Presentation:  https://youtu.be/uDNXjnOqJ-A?si=_h_0Fmiq788YaGZX New 'Alpamayo' Self Driving Car & Software  https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c0jv1vd571wo Hands-on Test Of the Car https://youtu.be/EzAVW1VgzcI?si=B9JCJmSQW6ywXV1x Boston Dynamics New Robot Atlas https://x.com/SawyerMerritt/status/2008293610308202508?s=20 Real Atlas footage from CES https://x.com/IntuitMachine/status/2008324310230851697?s=20 Google DeepMind + Boston Dynamics https://bostondynamics.com/blog/boston-dynamics-google-deepmind-form-new-ai-partnership/?utm_source=x&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=&utm_content= LG's Cloid 'AI-enabled' Robot Does Laundry *Really* Slowly https://x.com/AP/status/2008746664841146722?s=20 $100 drone with an AI powered vision system… https://x.com/chesterzelaya/status/2008058706500759576?s=20 New Unitree Robot Jumpkicks https://x.com/UnitreeRobotics/status/2007746313220415717?s=20 Guy Gets Kicked In The Nuts By Unitree Robot https://x.com/TheCartelDel/status/2004977640521044335?s=20 Men's Health Device For… You Know https://www.tiktok.com/@verge/video/7592000373989133581 GMAIL is in its GEMINI ERA https://t.co/oq3jYKyvF1 OpenAI's New 'Code Audio': Improving the audio models for the upcoming Jony Ive gadget https://www.theinformation.com/articles/openai-ramps-audio-ai-efforts-ahead-device?rc=c3oojq&shared=1b7fd8b8ee0b0038 ChatGPT's Move Towards Personal Assistant https://fidjisimo.substack.com/p/closing-the-capability-gap ChatGPT For Health https://x.com/OpenAI/status/2008987566796640575?s=20 Opus 4.5 + Claude Code's Big Moment (maybe we just kind of chat about this) https://www.axios.com/2026/01/07/anthropics-claude-code-vibe-coding Ralph Wiggum + Claude Code https://venturebeat.com/technology/how-ralph-wiggum-went-from-the-simpsons-to-the-biggest-name-in-ai-right-now GAS TOWN https://steve-yegge.medium.com/welcome-to-gas-town-4f25ee16dd04 FoFR Shares His JSON Prompting Techniques https://www.fofr.ai/prompting-with-json Gavin's Examples (What I Did With AI) https://x.com/gavinpurcell/status/2003148296844652662?s=20 https://x.com/gavinpurcell/status/2007194034171982122?s=20 Star Wars: Beggar's Canyon Is The World's Best AI Fan Film https://youtu.be/SGJC4Hnz3m0?si=EWZktHOnf6_cYcMh Related: PJ's Live Action Legend of Zelda Movie Trailer https://x.com/PJaccetturo/status/2008559114704875888?s=20 Show Fan Eric Curts Creates Cool Way To Make Graphic Novels in Notebook LM https://x.com/ericcurts/status/2007939089635369351?s=20 https://www.controlaltachieve.com/2026/01/graphicnovels.html   Somebod-AI that AI used to know? https://x.com/BrianRoemmele/status/2007838494513906051?s=20   Egg Protein https://x.com/Solopopsss/status/2008961579728130159?s=20  

What does 2026 hold for indie authors and the publishing industry? I give my thoughts on trends and predictions for the year ahead. In the intro, Quitting the right stuff; how to edit your author business in 2026; Is SubStack Good for Indie Authors?; Business for Authors webinars. If you'd like to join my community and support the show every month, you'll get access to my growing list of Patron videos and audio on all aspects of the author business — for the price of a black coffee (or two) a month. Join us at Patreon.com/thecreativepenn. Joanna Penn writes non-fiction for authors and is an award-winning, New York Times and USA Today bestselling thriller author as J.F. Penn. She's also an award-winning podcaster, creative entrepreneur, and international professional speaker. You can listen above or on your favorite podcast app or read the notes and links below. Here are the highlights and the full transcript is below. (1) More indie authors will sell direct through Shopify, Kickstarter, and local in-person events (2) AI-powered search will start to shift elements of book discoverability (3) The start of Agentic Commerce (4) AI-assisted audiobook narration will go mainstream (5) AI-assisted translation will start to take off beyond the early adopters (6) AI video becomes ubiquitous. ‘Live selling' becomes the next trend in social sales. (7) AI will create, run, and optimise ads without the need for human intervention (8) 1000 True Fans becomes more important than ever You can find all my books as J.F. Penn and Joanna Penn on your favourite online store in all the usual formats, or order from your local library or bookstore. You can also buy direct from me at CreativePennBooks.com and JFPennBooks.com. I'm not really active on social media, but you can always see my photos at Instagram @jfpennauthor. 2026 Trends and Predictions for Indie Authors and Book Publishing (1) More indie authors will sell direct through Shopify, Kickstarter, and local in-person events — and more companies like BookVault will offer even more beautiful physical books and products to support this. This trend will not be a surprise to most of you! Selling direct has been a trend for the last few years, but in 2026, it will continue to grow as a way that independent authors become even more independent. The recent Written Word Media survey from Dec 2025 noted that 30% of authors surveyed are selling direct already and 30% say they plan to start in 2026. Among authors earning over $10,000 per month, roughly half sell direct. In my opinion, selling direct is an advanced author strategy, meaning that you have multiple books and you understand book marketing and have an email list already or some guaranteed way to reach readers. In fact, Kindlepreneur reports that 66% of authors selling direct have more than 5 books, and 46% have more than 10 books. Of course, you can start with the something small, like a table at a local event with a limited number of books for sale, but if you want to consistently sell direct for years to come, you need to consider all the business aspects. Selling direct is not a silver bullet. It's much harder work to sell direct than it is to just upload an ebook to Amazon, whether you choose a Kickstarter campaign, or Shopify/Payhip or other online stores, or regular in-person sales at events/conferences/fairs. You need a business mindset and business practices, for example, you need to pay upfront for setup as well as ongoing management, and bulk printing in some cases. You need to manage taxes and cashflow. You need to be a lot more proactive about marketing, as you won't sell anything if you don't bring readers to your books/products. But selling direct also brings advantages. It sets you apart from the bulk of digital only authors who still only upload ebooks to Amazon, or maybe add a print on demand book, and in an era of AI rapid creation, that number is growing all the time. If you sell direct, you get your customer data and you can reach those customers next time, through your email list. If you don't know who bought your books and don't have a guaranteed way to reach them, you will more easily be disrupted when things change — and they always change eventually. Kindlepreneur notes that “45% of the successful direct selling authors had over 1,000 subscribers on their email lists,” with “a clear, positive correlation between email list size and monthly direct sales income — with authors having an email list of over 15,000 subscribers earning 20X more than authors with email lists under 100 subscribers.” Selling direct means faster money, sometimes the same day or the same week in many cases, or a few weeks after a campaign finishes, as with Kickstarter. And remember, you don't have to sell all your formats directly. You can keep your ebooks in KU, do whatever you like with audiobooks, and just have premium print products direct, or start with a very basic Kickstarter campaign, or a table at a local fair. Lots more tips for Shopify and Kickstarter at https://www.thecreativepenn.com/selldirectresources/ I also recommend the Novel Marketing Podcast on The Shopify Trap: Why authors keep losing money as it is a great counterpoint to my positive endorsement of selling direct on Shopify! Among other things, Thomas notes that a fixed monthly fee for a store doesn't match how most authors make money from books which is more in spikes, the complexity and hassle eats time and can cost more money if you pay for help, and it can reduce sales on Amazon and weaken your ranking. Basically, if you haven't figured out marketing direct to your store, it can hurt you.All true for some authors, for some genres, and for some people's lifestyle. But for authors who don't want to be on the hamster wheel of the Amazon algorithm and who want more diversity and control in income, as well as the incredible creative benefits of what you can do selling direct, then I would say, consider your options in 2025, even if that is trying out a low-financial-goal Kickstarter campaign, or selling some print books at a local fair. Interestingly, traditional publishers are also experimenting with direct sales. Kate Elton, the new CEO of Harper Collins notes in The Bookseller's 2026 trend article, “we are seeing global success with responsive, reader-driven publishing, subscription boxes and TikTok Shop and – crucially – developing strategies that are founded on a comprehensive understanding of the reader.” She also notes, “AI enables us to dramatically change the way we interact with and grow audiences. The opportunities are genuinely exciting – finding new ways to help readers discover books they will love, innovating in the ways we market and reach audiences, building new channels and adapting to new methods of consuming content.” (2) AI-powered search will start to shift elements of book discoverability From LinkedIn's 2026 Big Ideas: “Generative engine optimization (GEO) is set to replace search engine optimization (SEO) as the way brands get discovered in the year ahead. As consumers turn to AI chatbots, agentic workflows and answer engines, appearing prominently in generative outputs will matter more than ranking in search engines.” Google has been rolling out AI Mode with its AI Overviews and is beginning to push it within Google.com itself in some countries, which means the start of a fundamental change in how people discover content online. I first posted about GEO (Generative Engine Optimisation) and AEO (Answer Engine Optimisation) in 2023, and it's going to change how readers find books. For years, we've talked about the long tail of search. Now, with AI-powered search, that tail is getting even longer and more nuanced. AI can understand complex, conversational queries that traditional search engines struggled with. Someone might ask, “What's a good thriller set in a small town with a female protagonist who's a journalist investigating a cold case?” and get highly specific recommendations. This means your book metadata, your website content, and your online presence need to be more detailed and conversational. AI search engines understand context in ways that go far beyond simple keywords. The authors who win in this new landscape will be those who create rich, authentic content about their books and themselves, not just promotional copy. As economist Tyler Cowen has said, “Consider the AIs as part of your audience. Because they are already reading your words and listening to your voice.” We're in the ‘organic' traffic phase right now, where these AI engines are surfacing content for ‘free,' but paid ads are inevitably on the way, and even rumoured to be coming this year to ChatGPT. By the end of 2026, I expect some authors and publishers to be paying for AI traffic, rather than blocking and protesting them. For now, I recommend checking that your author name/s and your books are surfaced when you search on ChatGPT.com as well as Google.com AI Mode (powered by Gemini). You want to make sure your work comes up in some way. I found that Joanna Penn and J.F. Penn searches brought up my Shopify stores, my website, podcast, Instagram, LinkedIn, and even my Patreon page, but did not bring up links to Amazon. If you only have an author presence on Amazon, does it appear in AI search at all? Do you need to improve anything about what the AI search brings up? Traditional publishers are also looking at this, with PublishersWeekly doing webinars on various aspects of AI in early 2026, including sessions on GEO and how book sales are changing, AI agents, and book marketing. In a 2026 predictions article on The Bookseller, the CEO of Bloomsbury Publishing noted, “The boundaries of artificial intelligence will become clearer, enabling publishers to harness its benefits while seeking to safeguard the intellectual property rights of authors, illustrators and publishers.” “AI will be deeply embedded in our workflows, automating tasks such as metadata tagging, freeing teams to focus on creativity and strategy. Challenges will persist. Generative AI threatens traditional web traffic and ad revenue models, making metadata optimisation and SEO critical for visibility as we adjust to this new reality online.” (3) The start of Agentic Commerce AI researches what you want to buy and may even buy on your behalf. Plus, I predict that Amazon does a commerce deal with OpenAI for shopping within ChatGPT by the end of 2026. In September 2025, ChatGPT launched Instant Checkout and the Agentic Commerce Protocol, which will enable bots to buy on websites in the background if authorised by the human with the credit card. VISA is getting on board with this, so is PayPal, with no doubt more payment options to come. In the USA, ChatGPT Plus, Pro, and Free users can now buy directly from US Etsy sellers inside the chat interface, with over a million Shopify merchants coming soon. Shopify and OpenAI have also announced a partnership to bring commerce to ChatGPT. I am insanely excited about this as it could represent the first time we have been able to more easily find and surface books in a much more nuanced way than the 7 keywords and 3 categories we have relied on for so long! I've been using ChatGPT for at least the last year to find fiction and non-fiction books as I find the Amazon interface is ‘polluted' by ads. I've discovered fascinating books from authors I've never heard of, most in very long tail areas. For example, Slashed Beauties by A. Rushby, recommended by ChatGPT as I am interested in medical anatomy and anatomical Venuses, and The Macabre by Kosoko Jackson, recommended as I like art history and the supernatural. I don't think I would have found either of these within a nuanced discussion with ChatGPT. Even without these direct purchase integrations, ChatGPT now has Shopping Research, which I have found links directly to my Shopify store when I search for my books specifically. Walmart has partnered with OpenAI to create AI-first shopping experiences, and you have to wonder what Amazon might be doing? In Nov 2025, Amazon signed a “strategic partnership” with OpenAI, and even though it's focused on the technical side of AI, those two companies in a room together might also be working on other plans … I'm calling it for 2026. I think Amazon will sign a commerce agreement with OpenAI sometime before the end of the year. This will enable at least recommendation and shopping links into Amazon stores (presumably using an OpenAI affiliate link), or perhaps even Instant Checkout with ChatGPT for Amazon. It will also enable a new marketing angle, especially if paid ads arrive in ChatGPT, perhaps even integrating with Amazon Ads in some way as part of any possible agreement, since ads are such a good revenue stream for Amazon anyway. The line between discovery, engagement, and purchase is collapsing. Someone could be having a conversation with an AI about what to read next, and within that same conversation, purchase a bookwithout ever leaving the chat interface. This already happens within TikTok and social commerce clearly works for many authors. It's possible that the next development for book discoverability and sales might be within AI chats. This will likely stratify the already fragmented book eco-system even more. Some readers will continue to live only within the Amazon ecosystem and (maybe) use their Rufus chatbot to buy, and others will be much wider in their exploration of how to find and discover books (and other products and services). If you haven't tried it yet, try ChatGPT.com Shopping Research for a book. You can do this on the free tier. Use the drop down in the main chat box and select Shopping Research. It doesn't have to be for your book. It can be any book or product, for example, our microwave died just before Christmas so I used it to find a new one. But do a really nuanced search with multiple requirements. Go far beyond what you would search for on Amazon. In the results, notice that (at the time of writing) it does not generally link to Amazon, but to independent sites and stores. As above, I think this will change by the end of 2026, as some kind of commerce deal with Amazon seems inevitable. (4) AI-assisted audiobook narration will go mainstream I've been talking about AI narration of audiobooks since 2019, and over the years, I've tried various different options. In 2025, the technology reached a level of emotional nuance that made it much easier to create satisfying fiction audio as well as non-fiction. It also super-charges accessibility, making audio available in more languages and more accents than ever before. Of course, human narration remains the gold standard, but the cost makes it prohibitive for many authors, and indeed many small traditional publishers, for all books. If it costs $2000 – $10,000 to create an audiobook, you have to sell a lot to make a profit, and the dominance of subscription models have made it harder to recoup the costs. Famous narrators and voice artists who have an audience may still be worth investing in, as well as premium production, but require an even higher upfront cost and therefore higher sales and streams in return. AI voice/audio models are continuing to improve, and even as this goes out, there are rumours on TechCrunch that OpenAI's new device, designed by Jony Ive who designed the iPhone, will be audio first and OpenAI are improving their voice models even more in preparation for that launch. In 2026, I think AI-narrated audio will go mainstream with far-reaching adoption across publishing and the indie author world in many different languages and accents. This will mean a further stratification of audiobooks, with high quality, high production, high cost human narrated audio for a small percentage of books, and then mass market, affordable AI-narrated audio for the rest. AI-narrated audiobooks will make audio ubiquitous, and just as (almost) every print book has an ebook format, in 2026, they will also have an audio format. I straddle both these worlds, as I am still a human audiobook narrator for my own work. I human-narrated Successful Self-Publishing Fourth Edition (free audiobook) and The Buried and the Drowned, my short story collection. I also use AI narration for some books. ElevenLabs remains my preferred service and in 2025, I used my J.F. Penn voice clone for Death Valley and also Blood Vintage, while using a male voice for Catacomb. I clearly label my AI-narration in the sales description and also on the cover, which I think is important, although it is not always required by the various services. You can distribute ElevenLabs narrated audiobooks on Spotify, Kobo Writing Life, YouTube, ElevenReader, and of course your own store if you use Shopify with Bookfunnel. There are many other services springing up all the time, so make sure you check the rights you have over the finished audio, as well as where you can sell and distribute the final files. If they are just using ElevenLabs models in the back-end, then why not just do that directly? (Most services will be using someone's model in the back-end, since most companies do not train their own models.) Of course, you can use Amazon's own narration. While Amazon originally launched Audible audiobooks with Virtual Voice (AVV) in November 2023, it was rolled out to more authors and territories in 2025. If your book is eligible, the option to create an audiobook will appear on your KDP dashboard. With just a few clicks, you can create an audiobook from a range of voices and accents, and publish it on Amazon and Audible. However, the files are not yours. They are exclusive to Amazon and you cannot use them on other platforms or sell them direct yourself. But they are also free, so of course, many authors, especially those in KU, will use this option. I have done some for my mum's sweet romance books as Penny Appleton and I will likely use them for my books in translation when the option becomes available. Traditional publishers are experimenting with AI-assisted audiobook narration as well. MacMillan is selling digital audiobooks read by AI directly on their store. PublishersWeekly reports that PRH Audio “has experimented with artificial voice in specific instances, such as entrepreneur Ely Callaway's posthumous memoir The Unconquerable Game,” when an “authorized voice replica” was created for the audiobook. The article also notes that PRH Audio “embrace artificial intelligence across business operations—my entire department [PRH Audio] is using AI for business applications.” And while indie authors can't use AI voices on ACX right now, Audible have over 100 voices available to selected publishing partnerships, as reported by The Guardian with “two options for publishers wishing to make use of the technology: “Audible-managed” production, or “self-service” whereby publishers produce their own audiobooks with the help of Audible's AI technology.” In 2026, it's likely that more traditional publishers — as well as indie authors — will get their backlist into audio with AI narration. (5) AI-assisted translation will start to take off beyond the early adopters Over the years, I've done translation deals with traditional publishers in different languages (German, French, Spanish, Korean, Italian) for some fiction and non-fiction books. But of course, to get these kinds of deals, you have to be proactive about pitching, or work with an agent for foreign rights only, and those are few and far between! There are also lots of languages and territories worldwide, and most deals are for the bigger markets, leaving a LOT of blue water for books in translation, even if you have licensed some of the bigger markets. I did my first partially AI-translated books in 2019 when I used Deepl.com for the first draft and then worked with a German editor to do 3 non-fiction books in German. While the first draft was cheap, the editing was pretty expensive, so I stopped after only doing a couple. I have made the money back now, but it took years. In 2025, AI Translation began to take off with ScribeShadow, GlobeScribe.ai, and more recently, in November 2025, Kindle Translate boosting the number of translated books available. Kindle Translate is (currently) only available to US authors for English into Spanish and also German into English, but in 2026, this will likely roll out to more languages and more authors, making it easier than ever to produce translations for free. Of course, once again, the gold standard is human translation, or at least human-edited translations, but the cost is prohibitive even just for proof-reading, and if there is a cheap or even free option, like Kindle Translate, then of course, authors are going to try it. If the translation gets bad reviews, they can just un-publish. There are many anecdotal stories of indie success in 2025 with AI-translated genre fiction sales (in series) in under-served markets like Italian, French, and Spanish, as well as more mainstream adoption in German. I was around in the Kindle gold-rush days of 2009-2012 and the AI-translation energy right now feels like that. There are hardly any Kindle ebooks in many of these languages compared to how many there are in English, so inevitably, the rush is on to fill the void, especially in genres that are under-served by traditional publishers in those markets. Yes, some of these AI translated books will be ‘AI-slop,' but readers are not stupid. Those books will get bad reviews and thus will sink to the bottom of the store, never to be seen again. The AI translation models are also improving rapidly, and Amazon's Kindle Translate may improve faster than most, for books specifically, since they will be able to get feedback in terms of page reads. Amazon is also a major investor in Anthropic, which makes Claude.ai, widely considered the best quality for creative writing and translation, so it's likely that is used somewhere in the mix. Some traditional publishers are also experimenting with AI-assisted translation, with Harlequin France reportedly using AI translation and human proofreaders, as reported by the European Council of Literary Translators' Associations in December 2025. Academic publisher Taylor and Francis is also using AI for book translation, noting: “Following a program of rigorous testing, Taylor & Francis has announced plans to use AI translation tools to publish books that would otherwise be unavailable to English-language readers, bringing the latest knowledge to a vastly expanded readership.” “Until now, the time and resources required to translate books has meant that the majority remained accessible only to those who could read them in the original language. Books that were translated often only became available after a significant delay. Today, with the development of sophisticated AI translation tools, it has become possible to make these important texts available to a broad readership at speed, without compromising on accuracy.” (6) AI video becomes ubiquitous. ‘Live selling' becomes the next trend in social sales. In 2025, short form AI-generated video became very high quality. OpenAI released Sora 2, and YouTube announced new Shorts creation tools with Veo 3, which you can also use directly within Gemini. There are tons of different AI video apps now, including those within the social media sites themselves. There is more video than ever and it's much easier to create. I am not a fan of short form video! I don't make it and I don't consume it, but I do love making book trailers for my Kickstarter campaigns and for adding to my book pages and using on social media. I made a trailer for The Buried and the Drowned using Midjourney for images and then animation of those images, and Canva to put them together along with ElevenLabs to generate the music. But despite the AI tools getting so much easier to use, you still have to prompt them with exactly what you want. I can't just upload my book and say, “Make a book trailer,” or “Make a short film.” This may change with generative video ads, which are likely to become more common in 2026, as video turns specifically commercial. Video ads may even be generated specifically for the user, with an audience of one, maybe even holding your book in their hands (using something like Cameos on Sora), in the same way that some AI-powered clothing stores do virtual try-ons. This might also up-end the way we discover and buy things, as the AI for eCommerce and Amazon Sellers newsletter says about OpenAI's Sora app, “OpenAI isn't just trying to build a TikTok competitor. They're building a complete reimagining of how we discover and buy things …” “The combination of ChatGPT's research capabilities and Sora's potential for emotional manipulation—I mean, “engagement”—could create something we've never seen before: an AI ecosystem that might eventually guide you through every type of purchase, from the most considered to the most impulsive.” In 2026, there will be A LOT more AI-generated video, but that also leads to the human trend of more live video. While you can use an AI avatar that looks and sounds like you using tools like HeyGen or Synthesia, live video has all the imperfect human elements that make it stand-out, plus the scarcity element which leads to the purchase decision within a countdown period. Live video is nothing new in terms of brand building and content in general, but it seems that live events primarily for direct sales might be a thing in 2026. Kim Kardashian hosted Kimsmas Live in December 2025 with a 45 minute live shopping event with special guests, described as entertainment but designed to be a sales extravaganza. Indie authors are doing a similar thing on TikTok with their books, so this is a trend to watch in 2026, especially if you feel that live selling might fit with your personality and author business goals. It's certainly not for everyone, but I suspect it will suit a different kind of creator to those who prefer ‘no face' video, or no video at all! On other aspects of the human side of social media, Adam Mosseri the CEO of Instagram put a post on Threads called Authenticity after Abundance. He said, “Everything that made creators matter—the ability to be real, to connect, to have a voice that couldn't be faked—is now suddenly accessible to anyone with the right tools.” “Deepfakes are getting better and better. AI is generating photographs and videos indistinguishable from captured media. The feeds are starting to fill up with synthetic everything. And in that world, here's what I think happens.Creators matter more.” It's a long article so just to pick a few things from it: “We like to talk about “AI slop,” but there is a lot of amazing AI content … we are going to start to see more and more realistic AI content.” I've talked to my Patreon Community about this ‘tsunami of excellence' as these tools are just getting better and better and the word ‘slop' can also be applied to purely human output, too. If you think that AI content is ‘worse' than wholly human content, in 2026, you are wrong. It is now very very good, especially in the hands of people who can drive the AI tools. Back to Adam's post: “Authenticity is fast becoming a scarce resource, …The creators who succeed will be those who figure out how to maintain their authenticity [even when it can be simulated] …” “The bar is going to shift from “can you create?” to “can you make something that only you could create?” He talks about how the personal content on Instagram now is: “unpolished; it's blurry photos and shaky videos of people's daily experiences … flattering imagery is cheap to produce and boring to consume. People want content that feels real… Savvy creators are going to lean into explicitly unproduced and unflattering images of themselves. In a world where everything can be perfected, imperfection becomes a signal. Rawness isn't just aesthetic preference anymore—it's proof. It's defensive. A way of saying: this is real because it's imperfect.” While I partially love this, and I really hope it's true, as in I hope we don't need to look good for the camera anymore I would also challenge Adam on this, because pretty much every woman I know on social media has been sent sexual messages, and/or told they are ugly and/or fat when posting anything unflattering. I've certainly had both even for the same content, but I don't expect Adam has been the target for such posting! But I get his point. He goes on:“Labeling content as authentic or AI-generated is only part of the solution though. We, as an industry, are going to need to surface much more context about not only the media on our platforms, but the accounts that are sharing it in order for people to be able to make informed decisions about what to believe. Where is the account? When was it created? What else have they posted?” This is exactly what I've been saying for a while under my double down on being human focus. I use my Instagram @jfpennauthor as evidence of humanity, not as a sales channel. You can do both of course, but increasingly, you need to make sure your accounts at places have longevity and trust, even by the platforms themselves. Adam finishes: “In a world of infinite abundance and infinite doubt, the creators who can maintain trust and signal authenticity—by being real, transparent, and consistent—will stand out.” For other marketing trends for 2026, I recommend publicist Kathleen Schmidt's SubStack which is mostly focused on traditional publishing but still interesting for indies. In her 2026 article, she notes: “We have reached a social media saturation point where going viral can be meaningless and should not be the goal; authenticity and creativity should. She also says, “In-person events are important again,” and, “Social media marketing takes a nosedive… we have reached a saturation point … What publishers must figure out is how to make their social media campaigns stand out. If they remain somewhat uninspired, the money spent on social ads won't convert into book sales.” I think this is part of the rise of live selling as above, which can stand out above more ‘produced' videos. Kathleen also talks about AI usage. “AI can help lighten the burden of publicity and marketing.” “A lot of AI tools are coming to market to lessen the load: they can write pitches, create media lists for you, send pitches for you, and more. I know the industry is grappling with all things AI, but some of these tools are huge time savers and may help a book more than hurt it.” On that note … (7) AI will create, run, and optimise ads without the need for human intervention Many authors will be very happy about this as marketing is often the bane of our author business lives! As I noted in my 2026 goals, I would love to outsource more marketing tasks to AI. I want an “AI book marketing assistant” where I can upload a book and specify a budget and say, ‘Go market this,' then the AI will action the marketing, without me having to cobble together workflows between systems. Of course, it will present plans for me to approve but it will do the work itself on the various platforms and monitor and optimize things for me. I really hope 2026 is the year this becomes possible, because we are on the edge of it already in some areas. Amazon Ads launched a new agentic AI tool in September 2025 that creates professional-quality ads. I've also been working with Claude in Chrome browser to help me analyse my Amazon Ad data and suggest which keywords/products to turn off and what to put more budget into. I'll do a Patreon video on that soon. Meta announced it will enable AI ad creation by the end of 2026 for Facebook and Instagram. For authors who find ad creation overwhelming or time-consuming, this could be a game-changer. Of course, you will still need a budget! (8) 1000 True Fans becomes more important than ever Lots of authors and publishers are moaning about the difficulty of reaching readers in an era of ‘AI slop' but there is no shortage of excellent content created by humans, or humans using AI tools. As ever, our competition is less about other authors, or even authors using AI-assisted creation, we're competing against everything else that jostles for people's attention, and the volume of that is also growing exponentially. I've never been a fan of rapid release, and have said for years that you can't keep up with the pace of the machines. So play a different game. As Kevin Kelly wrote in 2008, If you have 1000 true fans, (also known as super fans), “you can make a living — if you are content to make a living but not a fortune.” [Kevin Kelly was on this show in 2023 talking about Excellent Advice for Living.] Many authors and the publishing industry are stuck in the old model of aiming to sell huge volumes of books at a low profit margin to a massive number of readers, many of them releasing ever faster to try and keep the algorithms moving. But the maths can work for the smaller audience of more invested readers and fans. If you only make $2 profit on an ebook, you need to sell 500 ebooks to make $1000, and then do it again next month. Or you can have a small community like my patreon.com/thecreativepenn where people pay $2 (or more) a month, so even a small revenue per person results in a better outcome over the year, as it is consistent monthly income with no advertising. But what if you could make $20 profit per book? That is entirely possible if you're producing high quality hardbacks on Kickstarter, or bundle deals of audiobooks, or whole series of ebooks. You would only need to sell to 50 people to make $1000. What about $100 profit per sale, which you can do with a small course or live event? You only need 10 people to make $1000, and this in-person focus also amplifies trust and fosters human connection. I've found the intimacy of my live Patreon Office Hours and also my webinars have been rewarding personally, but also financially, and are far more memorable — and potentially transformative — than a pre-recorded video or even another book. From the LinkedIn 2026 Big Ideas article: “In an AI-optimized world, intentional human connection will become the ultimate luxury.” The 1000 True Fans model is about serving a smaller, more personal audience with higher value products (and maybe services if that's your thing). As ever, its about niche and where you fit in the long long long long long tail. It's also about trust. Because there is definitely a shortage of that in so many areas, and as Adam Mosseri of Instagram has said, trust will be increasingly important. Trust takes time to build, but if you focus on serving your audience consistently, and delivering a high quality, and being authentic, this emerges as part of being human. In an echo of what happened when online commerce first took off, we are back to talking about trust. Back in 2010, I read Trust Agents: by Julien Smith and Chris Brogan, which clearly needs a comeback. There was a 10th anniversary edition published in 2020, so that's worth a read/listen. Chris Brogan was also on this show in 2017 when we talked about finding and serving your niche for the long term. That interview is still relevant, here's a quick excerpt, where I have (lightly edited) his response to my question on this topic back in 2017: Jo: The principle of know, like, and trust, why is that still important or perhaps even more important these days? Chris: There are a few things that at play there, Joanna. One is that the same tools that make it so easy for any of us to start and run a business also allow certain elements to decide whether or not they want to do something dubious. And with all new technologies that come, you know, there's nothing unique about these new technologies. In the 1800s, anyone could put anything in a bottle and sell it to you and say, this is gonna cure everything. Cancer — gone. And the bottle could have nothing in. You know, it could be Kool-Aid. And so, the idea of trying to understand what's behind the business though, one beautiful thing that's come is that we can see in much more dimensions who we're dealing with. We can understand better who's the face behind the brand. I really want people to try their best to be a lot clearer on what they stand for or what they say. And I don't really mean a tagline. I mean, humans don't really talk like that. They don't throw some sentence out as often as they can that you remember them for that phrase. But I would say that, we have so many media available to us — the plural of mediums — where we can be more of ourselves. And I think that there's a great opportunity to share the ‘you' behind the scenes, and some people get immediately terrified about this, ‘Ah, the last thing I want is for people to know more about me,' but I think we have such an opportunity. We have such an opportunity to voice our thoughts on something, to talk about the story that goes behind the product. We were all raised on overly produced material, but I think we don't want that anymore. We really want clarity, brevity, simplicity. We want the ability for what we feel is connection and then access. And so I think it's vital that we connect and show people our accessibility, not so that they can pester us with strange questions, but more so that you can say, this person stands with their product and their service and this person believes these things, and I feel something when I hear them and I wanna be part of that.” That's from Chris Brogan's interview here in 2017, and he is still blogging and speaking at writing at ChrisBrogan.com and I'm going to re-listen to the audiobook of Trust Agents again myself as I think it's more relevant than ever. The original quote comes from Bob Burg in his 1994 book, Endless Referrals, “All things being equal, people will do business with, and refer business to, those people they know, like and trust.” That still applies, and absolutely fits with the 1000 True Fans model of aiming to serve a smaller audience. As Kevin Kelly says in 1000 True Fans, “Instead of trying to reach the narrow and unlikely peaks of platinum bestseller hits, blockbusters, and celebrity status, you can aim for direct connection with a thousand true fans.” “On your way, no matter how many fans you actually succeed in gaining, you'll be surrounded not by faddish infatuation, but by genuine and true appreciation. It's a much saner destiny to hope for. And you are much more likely to actually arrive there.” In 2026, I hope that more authors (including me!) let go of ego goals and vanity metrics like ranking, gross sales (income before you take away costs), subscribers, followers, and likes, and consider important business numbers like profit (which is the money you have after costs like marketing are taken out), as well as number of true fans — and also lifestyle elements like number of weekends off, or days spent enjoying life and not just working! OK, that's my list of trends and predictions for 2026. Let me know what you think in the comments. Do you agree? Am I wrong? What have I missed? The post 2026 Trends And Predictions For Indie Authors And The Book Publishing Industry with Joanna Penn first appeared on The Creative Penn.

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Mon, 29 Dec 2025 22:00:00 GMT http://relay.fm/upgrade/596 http://relay.fm/upgrade/596 Jason Snell and Myke Hurley It's time for the 12th Annual Upgradies! Myke and Jason discuss their favorites of 2025, take the input of many Upgradians, and hand out awards in numerous categories! Only the finest will walk away with the most coveted of titles: Upgradies Winner. It's time for the 12th Annual Upgradies! Myke and Jason discuss their favorites of 2025, take the input of many Upgradians, and hand out awards in numerous categories! Only the finest will walk away with the most coveted of titles: Upgradies Winner. clean 9482 It's time for the 12th Annual Upgradies! Myke and Jason discuss their favorites of 2025, take the input of many Upgradians, and hand out awards in numerous categories! Only the finest will walk away with the most coveted of titles: Upgradies Winner. This episode of Upgrade is sponsored by: Sentry: Mobile crash reporting and app monitoring. New users get $100 in Sentry credits with code upgrade26. Ecamm: Powerful live streaming platform for Mac. Fitbod: Get stronger, faster with a fitness plan that fits you. Get 25% off your membership. Links and Show Notes: List of Nominees (Spoilers Below) Best Overall iOS App Final Cut Camera Mango Baby Carrot Weather Ivory Callsheet Best Newcomer iOS App Tapestry Focus Friend Athlytic Cassette Best Overall Mac App Numbers Mimestream ChatGPT Claude Ice ChatGPT Mimestream Obsidian Things Best Newcomer Mac App Longplay Superwhisper Claude Ice ChatGPT Festivitas Affinity Hyperspace ChatGPT Ghostty Tapestry Best Feature: Best Implementation of a '26 OS Feature** iPad Multitasking Clipboard History for Mac Private Cloud Compute in Shortcuts Athlytic Liquid Glass iPad Multitasking Call Screening Game of the Year Herdling Donkey Kong Bananza Balatro Clair Obscure Expedition 33 Favourite Movie Thunderbolts* Superman Flow My Old Ass Sinners F1 One Battle After Another Favourite TV Show The Pitt Ludwig Murderbot Pluribus Severance The Studio Favourite Book Moonbound by Robin Sloan Automatic Noodle by Annalee Newitz Apple in China, by Patrick McGee Ensh*ttification, by Cory Doctorow Everything is Tuburculosis, by John Green Favourite Podcast Connected Crash Course Pods: The Universe Wavefrm The Town Kinda Funny Gamescast The Rest is History Connected Upgrade Favourite Apple Product iPhone 17 Pro AirPods Pro 3  iPhone Air iPad Pro M5 MacBook Air M4 Favourite Non-Apple Product RoboRock vacuum Combustion thermal probe Traeger pellet grill Nintendo Switch 2 Bambu Labs P2S 3D Printer Trmnl E-Ink Display Worst Gadget / Most Disappointing Tech “Sky Blue” MacBook Air XTEINK X4 Cord Cutting Drama AI Liquid Glass Apple Intelligence Most Life-Changing Hardware RoboRock vacuum Combustion thermal probe M4 MacBook Pro and Second Desk Lutron Shades Vtech RM7767HD iPad mini in the Nursery AirPods Pro 3 Apple Watch Nintendo Switch 2 Favourite Tech Story “Larry Ellison's big dumb gift to his large adult son” - Elizabeth Lopatto/The Verge “Memo to Bari Weiss Re: CBS News: You're doomed” Elizabeth Lopatto/The Verge Something is Rotten in the State of Cupertino Apple Succession Alan Dye Leaves Apple AI Arms Race Announcement of the Steam Machine Favourite Tech Screw Up Apple gives up on personalized Siri until “the coming year” Jony Ive and Sam Altman share a coffee in SF Apple, Epic, Judge Gonzalez Rogers — Apple losing ability to charge 30%, being held in contempt, etc Apple Intelligence AWS / Cloudflare Outages Liquid Glass Get Upgrade+. More content, no ads. Submit Feedback Record of Previous Winners – Upgradies.com

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Listen now: Spotify, Apple and YouTubeIf you've been hearing phrases like “taste is the only thing that will matter for PMs in the AI era” but aren't sure what that actually means—or more importantly, how to build it—this episode is for you.In this conversation, Marc and Ben sit down with Sachin Rekhi, founder, former LinkedIn product leader, and creator of LinkedIn Sales Navigator, to unpack the real mechanics of taste: where it comes from, how to sharpen it, and why it's already the defining skill of AI-native product teams.Sachin shares the frameworks he teaches inside companies and in his Reforge course—from Rick Rubin's “sensitivity & canon” model, to daily design-critique habits, to the patterns he saw across design-driven, metrics-driven, strategy-driven, and sales-driven org cultures.He also tells the untold story of how Sales Navigator went from a tiny skunkworks project to one of LinkedIn's biggest product lines—why social capital mattered, how he managed leadership skepticism, and how he used prototypes, real customer quotes, and narrative-building to secure executive conviction.Whether you're trying to level up your product intuition, navigate organizational taste cultures, or use AI without slipping into “AI slop,” you'll walk away with practical models you can apply immediately to your product work, leadership communication, and team workflows.All episodes of the podcast are also available on Spotify, Apple and YouTube.New to the pod? Subscribe below to get the next episode in your inbox

Is Black Friday really booming, or are inflated prices and AI shopping assistants just muddying the waters? This episode rips into the data, exposes retailer tactics, and debates if smarter tech is actually making us better shoppers. Black Friday data shows online sales strong, store results mixed Silicon Valley's man in the White House is benefiting himself and his friends View: Trump's AI agenda sails toward an iceberg of bipartisan populist fury 'We do fail ... a lot': Defense startup Anduril hits setbacks with weapons tech Solar's growth in US almost enough to offset rising energy use Datacenters in space are a terrible, horrible, no good idea China leapfrogs US in global market for 'open' AI models Danish authorities in rush to close security loophole in Chinese electric buses The Ford F-150 Lightning was supposed to transform the industry. Now, Ford may pull the plug Roblox is a problem — but it's a symptom of something worse Warner Music and Suno strike deal for AI music, giving artists control over their likeness Leak confirms OpenAI is preparing ads on ChatGPT for public roll out Jony Ive, Sam Altman: OpenAI plans elegantly simple device One tech tip: Modern cars are spying on you. Here's what you can do about it How a GM EV1 was sold for the first time GPU prices are coming to earth just as RAM costs shoot into the stratosphere Host: Leo Laporte Guests: Daniel Rubino, Sam Abuelsamid, and Mike Elgan Download or subscribe to This Week in Tech at https://twit.tv/shows/this-week-in-tech Join Club TWiT for Ad-Free Podcasts! Support what you love and get ad-free shows, a members-only Discord, and behind-the-scenes access. Join today: https://twit.tv/clubtwit Sponsors: ventionteams.com/twit deel.com/twit zapier.com/twit Melissa.com/twit zscaler.com/security

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Is Black Friday really booming, or are inflated prices and AI shopping assistants just muddying the waters? This episode rips into the data, exposes retailer tactics, and debates if smarter tech is actually making us better shoppers. Black Friday data shows online sales strong, store results mixed Silicon Valley's man in the White House is benefiting himself and his friends View: Trump's AI agenda sails toward an iceberg of bipartisan populist fury 'We do fail ... a lot': Defense startup Anduril hits setbacks with weapons tech Solar's growth in US almost enough to offset rising energy use Datacenters in space are a terrible, horrible, no good idea China leapfrogs US in global market for 'open' AI models Danish authorities in rush to close security loophole in Chinese electric buses The Ford F-150 Lightning was supposed to transform the industry. Now, Ford may pull the plug Roblox is a problem — but it's a symptom of something worse Warner Music and Suno strike deal for AI music, giving artists control over their likeness Leak confirms OpenAI is preparing ads on ChatGPT for public roll out Jony Ive, Sam Altman: OpenAI plans elegantly simple device One tech tip: Modern cars are spying on you. Here's what you can do about it How a GM EV1 was sold for the first time GPU prices are coming to earth just as RAM costs shoot into the stratosphere Host: Leo Laporte Guests: Daniel Rubino, Sam Abuelsamid, and Mike Elgan Download or subscribe to This Week in Tech at https://twit.tv/shows/this-week-in-tech Join Club TWiT for Ad-Free Podcasts! Support what you love and get ad-free shows, a members-only Discord, and behind-the-scenes access. Join today: https://twit.tv/clubtwit Sponsors: ventionteams.com/twit deel.com/twit zapier.com/twit Melissa.com/twit zscaler.com/security

Is Black Friday really booming, or are inflated prices and AI shopping assistants just muddying the waters? This episode rips into the data, exposes retailer tactics, and debates if smarter tech is actually making us better shoppers. Black Friday data shows online sales strong, store results mixed Silicon Valley's man in the White House is benefiting himself and his friends View: Trump's AI agenda sails toward an iceberg of bipartisan populist fury 'We do fail ... a lot': Defense startup Anduril hits setbacks with weapons tech Solar's growth in US almost enough to offset rising energy use Datacenters in space are a terrible, horrible, no good idea China leapfrogs US in global market for 'open' AI models Danish authorities in rush to close security loophole in Chinese electric buses The Ford F-150 Lightning was supposed to transform the industry. Now, Ford may pull the plug Roblox is a problem — but it's a symptom of something worse Warner Music and Suno strike deal for AI music, giving artists control over their likeness Leak confirms OpenAI is preparing ads on ChatGPT for public roll out Jony Ive, Sam Altman: OpenAI plans elegantly simple device One tech tip: Modern cars are spying on you. Here's what you can do about it How a GM EV1 was sold for the first time GPU prices are coming to earth just as RAM costs shoot into the stratosphere Host: Leo Laporte Guests: Daniel Rubino, Sam Abuelsamid, and Mike Elgan Download or subscribe to This Week in Tech at https://twit.tv/shows/this-week-in-tech Join Club TWiT for Ad-Free Podcasts! Support what you love and get ad-free shows, a members-only Discord, and behind-the-scenes access. Join today: https://twit.tv/clubtwit Sponsors: ventionteams.com/twit deel.com/twit zapier.com/twit Melissa.com/twit zscaler.com/security

Is Black Friday really booming, or are inflated prices and AI shopping assistants just muddying the waters? This episode rips into the data, exposes retailer tactics, and debates if smarter tech is actually making us better shoppers. Black Friday data shows online sales strong, store results mixed Silicon Valley's man in the White House is benefiting himself and his friends View: Trump's AI agenda sails toward an iceberg of bipartisan populist fury 'We do fail ... a lot': Defense startup Anduril hits setbacks with weapons tech Solar's growth in US almost enough to offset rising energy use Datacenters in space are a terrible, horrible, no good idea China leapfrogs US in global market for 'open' AI models Danish authorities in rush to close security loophole in Chinese electric buses The Ford F-150 Lightning was supposed to transform the industry. Now, Ford may pull the plug Roblox is a problem — but it's a symptom of something worse Warner Music and Suno strike deal for AI music, giving artists control over their likeness Leak confirms OpenAI is preparing ads on ChatGPT for public roll out Jony Ive, Sam Altman: OpenAI plans elegantly simple device One tech tip: Modern cars are spying on you. Here's what you can do about it How a GM EV1 was sold for the first time GPU prices are coming to earth just as RAM costs shoot into the stratosphere Host: Leo Laporte Guests: Daniel Rubino, Sam Abuelsamid, and Mike Elgan Download or subscribe to This Week in Tech at https://twit.tv/shows/this-week-in-tech Join Club TWiT for Ad-Free Podcasts! Support what you love and get ad-free shows, a members-only Discord, and behind-the-scenes access. Join today: https://twit.tv/clubtwit Sponsors: ventionteams.com/twit deel.com/twit zapier.com/twit Melissa.com/twit zscaler.com/security

Comenzamos el episodio analizando la sorprendente noticia de que Apple podría estar negociando con Intel para la fabricación de futuros procesadores de la serie M. Debatimos el informe de Ming-Chi Kuo que apunta a 2027 como fecha clave para que Intel asuma la producción de los chips de gama base, rompiendo así la exclusividad con TSMC. Valoramos las implicaciones estratégicas de este movimiento, tanto para la diversificación de la cadena de suministro como para la imagen de fabricación estadounidense, y cómo esto podría convivir con la producción de los modelos Pro y Max en Taiwán.A continuación, abordamos el drástico aumento en los precios de la memoria RAM y cómo esta inflación de componentes está asfixiando al mercado del PC, aunque Apple parece tener margen para absorber el impacto. También dedicamos un espacio a comentar la colaboración entre Jony Ive y Sam Altman para OpenAI; discutimos la falta de concreción sobre su futuro dispositivo de hardware para inteligencia artificial, del que apenas se sabe que buscará ser un objeto "juguetón" y que podría tardar aún dos años en materializarse, planteando dudas sobre su viabilidad frente al avance de los smartphones actuales.Por último, repasamos el rendimiento comercial del concepto "iPhone Air" y cómo la competencia en Android observa con cautela este segmento de móviles ultradelgados. Explicamos los avances técnicos que permitirían a los Google Pixel utilizar AirDrop mediante ingeniería inversa y cerramos comentando la actualidad de los servicios, destacando el éxito de la serie Pluribus en Apple TV+, la cancelación del estreno de Furtivo por acusaciones de plagio y la posible expansión de las funciones satelitales de Apple para el próximo año. TSMC Arizona Outage Saw Fab Halt, Apple Wafers Scrapped Jony Ive and Sam Altman have first prototype of mysterious AI hardware - 9to5Mac Mishaal Rahman: Apple being forced by the EU to implement WiFi Aware was not why or how Google was able to get AirDrop supported in Quick Share, from what I'm told. Google did actually implement AWDL support. : r/Android El precio de la memoria asfixia al mercado de PC Tecnología Do higher RAM prices make Apple a better option? – Computerworld Chinese brands saw the iPhone Air flop and canceled their plans DXOMARK puts the iPhone Air's single rear camera to the test - 9to5Mac ㆅ on X: "It's silly, but many Android brands like Realme, Nothing, and HMD Global have their Twitter accounts linked to “App Store” instead of Android

Is Black Friday really booming, or are inflated prices and AI shopping assistants just muddying the waters? This episode rips into the data, exposes retailer tactics, and debates if smarter tech is actually making us better shoppers. Black Friday data shows online sales strong, store results mixed Silicon Valley's man in the White House is benefiting himself and his friends View: Trump's AI agenda sails toward an iceberg of bipartisan populist fury 'We do fail ... a lot': Defense startup Anduril hits setbacks with weapons tech Solar's growth in US almost enough to offset rising energy use Datacenters in space are a terrible, horrible, no good idea China leapfrogs US in global market for 'open' AI models Danish authorities in rush to close security loophole in Chinese electric buses The Ford F-150 Lightning was supposed to transform the industry. Now, Ford may pull the plug Roblox is a problem — but it's a symptom of something worse Warner Music and Suno strike deal for AI music, giving artists control over their likeness Leak confirms OpenAI is preparing ads on ChatGPT for public roll out Jony Ive, Sam Altman: OpenAI plans elegantly simple device One tech tip: Modern cars are spying on you. Here's what you can do about it How a GM EV1 was sold for the first time GPU prices are coming to earth just as RAM costs shoot into the stratosphere Host: Leo Laporte Guests: Daniel Rubino, Sam Abuelsamid, and Mike Elgan Download or subscribe to This Week in Tech at https://twit.tv/shows/this-week-in-tech Join Club TWiT for Ad-Free Podcasts! Support what you love and get ad-free shows, a members-only Discord, and behind-the-scenes access. Join today: https://twit.tv/clubtwit Sponsors: ventionteams.com/twit deel.com/twit zapier.com/twit Melissa.com/twit zscaler.com/security

Is Black Friday really booming, or are inflated prices and AI shopping assistants just muddying the waters? This episode rips into the data, exposes retailer tactics, and debates if smarter tech is actually making us better shoppers. Black Friday data shows online sales strong, store results mixed Silicon Valley's man in the White House is benefiting himself and his friends View: Trump's AI agenda sails toward an iceberg of bipartisan populist fury 'We do fail ... a lot': Defense startup Anduril hits setbacks with weapons tech Solar's growth in US almost enough to offset rising energy use Datacenters in space are a terrible, horrible, no good idea China leapfrogs US in global market for 'open' AI models Danish authorities in rush to close security loophole in Chinese electric buses The Ford F-150 Lightning was supposed to transform the industry. Now, Ford may pull the plug Roblox is a problem — but it's a symptom of something worse Warner Music and Suno strike deal for AI music, giving artists control over their likeness Leak confirms OpenAI is preparing ads on ChatGPT for public roll out Jony Ive, Sam Altman: OpenAI plans elegantly simple device One tech tip: Modern cars are spying on you. Here's what you can do about it How a GM EV1 was sold for the first time GPU prices are coming to earth just as RAM costs shoot into the stratosphere Host: Leo Laporte Guests: Daniel Rubino, Sam Abuelsamid, and Mike Elgan Download or subscribe to This Week in Tech at https://twit.tv/shows/this-week-in-tech Join Club TWiT for Ad-Free Podcasts! Support what you love and get ad-free shows, a members-only Discord, and behind-the-scenes access. Join today: https://twit.tv/clubtwit Sponsors: ventionteams.com/twit deel.com/twit zapier.com/twit Melissa.com/twit zscaler.com/security

Fri, 28 Nov 2025 16:45:00 GMT http://relay.fm/connected/580 http://relay.fm/connected/580 Lick It Twice 580 Federico Viticci, Stephen Hackett, and Myke Hurley Federico and Myke discuss the rumours of a 'Snow Leopard year' for iOS 27, why they think Sam Altman and Jony Ive might benefit from saying less, and share a few things they're thankful for in the world of technology. Federico and Myke discuss the rumours of a 'Snow Leopard year' for iOS 27, why they think Sam Altman and Jony Ive might benefit from saying less, and share a few things they're thankful for in the world of technology. clean 4372 Federico and Myke discuss the rumours of a 'Snow Leopard year' for iOS 27, why they think Sam Altman and Jony Ive might benefit from saying less, and share a few things they're thankful for in the world of technology. This episode of Connected is sponsored by: KRCS: Apple Premium Reseller. Get free next-working-day delivery. Ecamm: Powerful live streaming platform for Mac. 40% off annual plans until December 2nd. Links and Show Notes: Get Connected Pro: Preshow, postshow, no ads. Submit Feedback Jony Ive and Sam Altman say they finally have an AI hardware prototype | The Verge I Finally Tested the M5 iPad Pro's Neural-Accelerated AI, and the Hype Is Real - MacStories Jony Ive and Sam Altman Discuss AI Device That's Playful, Bite Worthy, and as Peaceful as a Cabin By a Lake - MacRumors Wading Back Into the Liquid Glass Pool: The MacStories OS 26 App Roundup Continued - MacStories Ulysses Liquid Glass Update - MacSparky Apple iOS 27: Snow Leopard-Like Quality Focus, AI Features; Tim Cook Retirement - Bloomberg Ilya Sutskever – We're moving from the age of scaling to the age of research Athlytic AYN Thor SteamOS GameHub Nintendo Switch 2 Cases » Killswitch » dbrand Drafts

Pre-Thanksgiving chatter from the Lessins' Surf Shack: Jess, Brit, Dave, and Sam pinball from holiday-card automation to trillion-dollar AI geopolitics. Brit trades Minted for Canva+GPT, Jess admits to maintaining a 600-row address spreadsheet, Sam unveils Slow's Etiquette Book, and Dave still can't believe we can't pay in USDC. Don't worry this year's Thanksgiving edition will live up to its hype, the crew gets into the real stuff too: Google's TPU push vs. Nvidia's moat, Meta reportedly buying billions in TPUs, whether Google can shave 10% off Nvidia's revenue, and more.Chapters:06:45 The San Francisco consensus and Silicon Valley's real innovation marketing11:10 Elon Zuck and megaphone-powered distribution14:30 Why interface distribution will decide AI winner17:20 Memory isn't real lock-in switching between ChatGPT and Gemini21:40 OpenAI's identity crisis: Apple-style computer vs Meta-style attention26:30 Google complex vs OpenAI complex how the narrative flipped29:10 Google TPUs vs Nvidia Meta's rumored buying spree33:20 AI infrastructure economics depreciation CapEx margins36:00 Macro vs micro elections risk cycles 40:10 DOE's Genesis Mission and where the analogy breaks44:00 OpenAI's Jony Ive device timeline48:30 Why distribution still beats novelty53:15 Final takeaways: marketing distribution and business-model warsWe're also on ↓X: https://twitter.com/moreorlesspodInstagram: https://instagram.com/moreorlessYouTube: https://youtu.be/7BbWHm3KODwConnect with us here:1) Sam Lessin: https://x.com/lessin2) Dave Morin: https://x.com/davemorin3) Jessica Lessin: https://x.com/Jessicalessin4) Brit Morin: https://x.com/brit

Fri, 28 Nov 2025 16:45:00 GMT http://relay.fm/connected/580 http://relay.fm/connected/580 Federico Viticci, Stephen Hackett, and Myke Hurley Federico and Myke discuss the rumours of a 'Snow Leopard year' for iOS 27, why they think Sam Altman and Jony Ive might benefit from saying less, and share a few things they're thankful for in the world of technology. Federico and Myke discuss the rumours of a 'Snow Leopard year' for iOS 27, why they think Sam Altman and Jony Ive might benefit from saying less, and share a few things they're thankful for in the world of technology. clean 4372 Federico and Myke discuss the rumours of a 'Snow Leopard year' for iOS 27, why they think Sam Altman and Jony Ive might benefit from saying less, and share a few things they're thankful for in the world of technology. This episode of Connected is sponsored by: KRCS: Apple Premium Reseller. Get free next-working-day delivery. Ecamm: Powerful live streaming platform for Mac. 40% off annual plans until December 2nd. Links and Show Notes: Get Connected Pro: Preshow, postshow, no ads. Submit Feedback Jony Ive and Sam Altman say they finally have an AI hardware prototype | The Verge I Finally Tested the M5 iPad Pro's Neural-Accelerated AI, and the Hype Is Real - MacStories Jony Ive and Sam Altman Discuss AI Device That's Playful, Bite Worthy, and as Peaceful as a Cabin By a Lake - MacRumors Wading Back Into the Liquid Glass Pool: The MacStories OS 26 App Roundup Continued - MacStories Ulysses Liquid Glass Update - MacSparky Apple iOS 27: Snow Leopard-Like Quality Focus, AI Features; Tim Cook Retirement - Bloomberg Ilya Sutskever – We're moving from the age of scaling to the age of research Athlytic AYN Thor SteamOS GameHub Nintendo Switch 2 Cases » Killswitch » dbrand Drafts

AI pioneer Emad Mostaque joins Intelligent Machines to predict the intelligence inversion that could make human cognitive labor economically obsolete within a few years. Are we on the brink of a world where AI not only replaces remote jobs, but outcompetes entire companies of people? Fox News hires Palantir to build AI newsroom tools White House pauses executive order that would seek to preempt state laws on AI, sources say Jony Ive, Sam Altman: OpenAI plans elegantly simple device Kicking Robots, by James Vincent Work is "optional" and irrelevant money: Musk's creepy utopian dream The Twins Pushing Elon Musk's Plans to Replace X Staff With Grok The prof crashed I'm a Professor. A.I. Has Changed My Classroom, but Not for the Worse. Lawn gone: Robotic lawnmower devastates sports field in Aurich Latest Yudkowsky nutballery: An International Agreement to Prevent the Premature Creation of Artificial Superintelligence AI-Salesman: Towards Reliable Large Language Model Driven Telemarketing Project Rachel: Can an AI Become a Scholarly Author? A beautiful Nic Cage commercial This stuffing recipe How Taco Bell Knows Exactly What You Want to Eat at 2 a.m. 'A nucleus of a community': the five-hour stage play about Dungeons & Dragons The Stahl House A $100,000 Robot Dog Is Becoming Standard in Policing — and Raising Ethical Alarms Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Paris Martineau Guest: Emad Mostaque Download or subscribe to Intelligent Machines at https://twit.tv/shows/intelligent-machines. Join Club TWiT for Ad-Free Podcasts! Support what you love and get ad-free shows, a members-only Discord, and behind-the-scenes access. Join today: https://twit.tv/clubtwit Sponsors: agntcy.org zscaler.com/security spaceship.com/twit ventionteams.com/twit

AI pioneer Emad Mostaque joins Intelligent Machines to predict the intelligence inversion that could make human cognitive labor economically obsolete within a few years. Are we on the brink of a world where AI not only replaces remote jobs, but outcompetes entire companies of people? Fox News hires Palantir to build AI newsroom tools White House pauses executive order that would seek to preempt state laws on AI, sources say Jony Ive, Sam Altman: OpenAI plans elegantly simple device Kicking Robots, by James Vincent Work is "optional" and irrelevant money: Musk's creepy utopian dream The Twins Pushing Elon Musk's Plans to Replace X Staff With Grok The prof crashed I'm a Professor. A.I. Has Changed My Classroom, but Not for the Worse. Lawn gone: Robotic lawnmower devastates sports field in Aurich Latest Yudkowsky nutballery: An International Agreement to Prevent the Premature Creation of Artificial Superintelligence AI-Salesman: Towards Reliable Large Language Model Driven Telemarketing Project Rachel: Can an AI Become a Scholarly Author? A beautiful Nic Cage commercial This stuffing recipe How Taco Bell Knows Exactly What You Want to Eat at 2 a.m. 'A nucleus of a community': the five-hour stage play about Dungeons & Dragons The Stahl House A $100,000 Robot Dog Is Becoming Standard in Policing — and Raising Ethical Alarms Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Paris Martineau Guest: Emad Mostaque Download or subscribe to Intelligent Machines at https://twit.tv/shows/intelligent-machines. Join Club TWiT for Ad-Free Podcasts! Support what you love and get ad-free shows, a members-only Discord, and behind-the-scenes access. Join today: https://twit.tv/clubtwit Sponsors: agntcy.org zscaler.com/security spaceship.com/twit ventionteams.com/twit

AI pioneer Emad Mostaque joins Intelligent Machines to predict the intelligence inversion that could make human cognitive labor economically obsolete within a few years. Are we on the brink of a world where AI not only replaces remote jobs, but outcompetes entire companies of people? Fox News hires Palantir to build AI newsroom tools White House pauses executive order that would seek to preempt state laws on AI, sources say Jony Ive, Sam Altman: OpenAI plans elegantly simple device Kicking Robots, by James Vincent Work is "optional" and irrelevant money: Musk's creepy utopian dream The Twins Pushing Elon Musk's Plans to Replace X Staff With Grok The prof crashed I'm a Professor. A.I. Has Changed My Classroom, but Not for the Worse. Lawn gone: Robotic lawnmower devastates sports field in Aurich Latest Yudkowsky nutballery: An International Agreement to Prevent the Premature Creation of Artificial Superintelligence AI-Salesman: Towards Reliable Large Language Model Driven Telemarketing Project Rachel: Can an AI Become a Scholarly Author? A beautiful Nic Cage commercial This stuffing recipe How Taco Bell Knows Exactly What You Want to Eat at 2 a.m. 'A nucleus of a community': the five-hour stage play about Dungeons & Dragons The Stahl House A $100,000 Robot Dog Is Becoming Standard in Policing — and Raising Ethical Alarms Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Paris Martineau Guest: Emad Mostaque Download or subscribe to Intelligent Machines at https://twit.tv/shows/intelligent-machines. Join Club TWiT for Ad-Free Podcasts! Support what you love and get ad-free shows, a members-only Discord, and behind-the-scenes access. Join today: https://twit.tv/clubtwit Sponsors: agntcy.org zscaler.com/security spaceship.com/twit ventionteams.com/twit

AI pioneer Emad Mostaque joins Intelligent Machines to predict the intelligence inversion that could make human cognitive labor economically obsolete within a few years. Are we on the brink of a world where AI not only replaces remote jobs, but outcompetes entire companies of people? Fox News hires Palantir to build AI newsroom tools White House pauses executive order that would seek to preempt state laws on AI, sources say Jony Ive, Sam Altman: OpenAI plans elegantly simple device Kicking Robots, by James Vincent Work is "optional" and irrelevant money: Musk's creepy utopian dream The Twins Pushing Elon Musk's Plans to Replace X Staff With Grok The prof crashed I'm a Professor. A.I. Has Changed My Classroom, but Not for the Worse. Lawn gone: Robotic lawnmower devastates sports field in Aurich Latest Yudkowsky nutballery: An International Agreement to Prevent the Premature Creation of Artificial Superintelligence AI-Salesman: Towards Reliable Large Language Model Driven Telemarketing Project Rachel: Can an AI Become a Scholarly Author? A beautiful Nic Cage commercial This stuffing recipe How Taco Bell Knows Exactly What You Want to Eat at 2 a.m. 'A nucleus of a community': the five-hour stage play about Dungeons & Dragons The Stahl House A $100,000 Robot Dog Is Becoming Standard in Policing — and Raising Ethical Alarms Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Paris Martineau Guest: Emad Mostaque Download or subscribe to Intelligent Machines at https://twit.tv/shows/intelligent-machines. Join Club TWiT for Ad-Free Podcasts! Support what you love and get ad-free shows, a members-only Discord, and behind-the-scenes access. Join today: https://twit.tv/clubtwit Sponsors: agntcy.org zscaler.com/security spaceship.com/twit ventionteams.com/twit

AI pioneer Emad Mostaque joins Intelligent Machines to predict the intelligence inversion that could make human cognitive labor economically obsolete within a few years. Are we on the brink of a world where AI not only replaces remote jobs, but outcompetes entire companies of people? Fox News hires Palantir to build AI newsroom tools White House pauses executive order that would seek to preempt state laws on AI, sources say Jony Ive, Sam Altman: OpenAI plans elegantly simple device Kicking Robots, by James Vincent Work is "optional" and irrelevant money: Musk's creepy utopian dream The Twins Pushing Elon Musk's Plans to Replace X Staff With Grok The prof crashed I'm a Professor. A.I. Has Changed My Classroom, but Not for the Worse. Lawn gone: Robotic lawnmower devastates sports field in Aurich Latest Yudkowsky nutballery: An International Agreement to Prevent the Premature Creation of Artificial Superintelligence AI-Salesman: Towards Reliable Large Language Model Driven Telemarketing Project Rachel: Can an AI Become a Scholarly Author? A beautiful Nic Cage commercial This stuffing recipe How Taco Bell Knows Exactly What You Want to Eat at 2 a.m. 'A nucleus of a community': the five-hour stage play about Dungeons & Dragons The Stahl House A $100,000 Robot Dog Is Becoming Standard in Policing — and Raising Ethical Alarms Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Paris Martineau Guest: Emad Mostaque Download or subscribe to Intelligent Machines at https://twit.tv/shows/intelligent-machines. Join Club TWiT for Ad-Free Podcasts! Support what you love and get ad-free shows, a members-only Discord, and behind-the-scenes access. Join today: https://twit.tv/clubtwit Sponsors: agntcy.org zscaler.com/security spaceship.com/twit ventionteams.com/twit

AI pioneer Emad Mostaque joins Intelligent Machines to predict the intelligence inversion that could make human cognitive labor economically obsolete within a few years. Are we on the brink of a world where AI not only replaces remote jobs, but outcompetes entire companies of people? Fox News hires Palantir to build AI newsroom tools White House pauses executive order that would seek to preempt state laws on AI, sources say Jony Ive, Sam Altman: OpenAI plans elegantly simple device Kicking Robots, by James Vincent Work is "optional" and irrelevant money: Musk's creepy utopian dream The Twins Pushing Elon Musk's Plans to Replace X Staff With Grok The prof crashed I'm a Professor. A.I. Has Changed My Classroom, but Not for the Worse. Lawn gone: Robotic lawnmower devastates sports field in Aurich Latest Yudkowsky nutballery: An International Agreement to Prevent the Premature Creation of Artificial Superintelligence AI-Salesman: Towards Reliable Large Language Model Driven Telemarketing Project Rachel: Can an AI Become a Scholarly Author? A beautiful Nic Cage commercial This stuffing recipe How Taco Bell Knows Exactly What You Want to Eat at 2 a.m. 'A nucleus of a community': the five-hour stage play about Dungeons & Dragons The Stahl House A $100,000 Robot Dog Is Becoming Standard in Policing — and Raising Ethical Alarms Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Paris Martineau Guest: Emad Mostaque Download or subscribe to Intelligent Machines at https://twit.tv/shows/intelligent-machines. Join Club TWiT for Ad-Free Podcasts! Support what you love and get ad-free shows, a members-only Discord, and behind-the-scenes access. Join today: https://twit.tv/clubtwit Sponsors: agntcy.org zscaler.com/security spaceship.com/twit ventionteams.com/twit

We celebrate 1000 episodes of MacBreak Weekly! The next iteration of iOS may be something similar to macOS 'Snow Leopard'. A breakthrough has been made in the iPhone Fold crease! And Gurman refutes the Financial Times report that Tim Cook could be stepping down as early as next year. Apple announces 45 App Store awards finalists for 2025. Apple iOS 27 to be no-frills 'Snow Leopard' update, other than new AI. Jony Ive, Sam Altman: OpenAI plans elegantly simple device. Around 100 iPhone Folds made after crease 'breakthrough'. Retail chain accidentally sold iPad Airs for $17 – wants them back. Android and iPhone users can now share files, starting with the Pixel 10 family. Apple and Delta join forces on new baggage tracking tech. Poland probes Apple again over App Tracking Transparency rules. New Apple Immersive content coming soon to Vision Pro from Real Madrid and Red Bull. Vince Gilligan's 'Pluribus' sets record for biggest Apple TV drama series launch. Gurman: 'Few signs internally' point to Tim Cook stepping down as CEO early next year. Apple releases another limited-edition designer iPhone accessory. New Apple video highlights vapor chamber liquid cooling in iPhone 17 Pro. Google mocks iPhone in musical 'Wicked' ad claiming Pixel firsts. Apple News loses CNN. Picks of the Week Jason's Pick: Festivitas Andy's Pick: Blip Alex's Pick: UNI HDMI Adapter Hosts: Leo Laporte, Alex Lindsay, Andy Ihnatko, and Jason Snell Download or subscribe to MacBreak Weekly at https://twit.tv/shows/macbreak-weekly. Join Club TWiT for Ad-Free Podcasts! Support what you love and get ad-free shows, a members-only Discord, and behind-the-scenes access. Join today: https://twit.tv/clubtwit Sponsors: threatlocker.com/twit framer.com/design promo code MACBREAK spaceship.com/twit outsystems.com/twit

We celebrate 1000 episodes of MacBreak Weekly! The next iteration of iOS may be something similar to macOS 'Snow Leopard'. A breakthrough has been made in the iPhone Fold crease! And Gurman refutes the Financial Times report that Tim Cook could be stepping down as early as next year. Apple announces 45 App Store awards finalists for 2025. Apple iOS 27 to be no-frills 'Snow Leopard' update, other than new AI. Jony Ive, Sam Altman: OpenAI plans elegantly simple device. Around 100 iPhone Folds made after crease 'breakthrough'. Retail chain accidentally sold iPad Airs for $17 – wants them back. Android and iPhone users can now share files, starting with the Pixel 10 family. Apple and Delta join forces on new baggage tracking tech. Poland probes Apple again over App Tracking Transparency rules. New Apple Immersive content coming soon to Vision Pro from Real Madrid and Red Bull. Vince Gilligan's 'Pluribus' sets record for biggest Apple TV drama series launch. Gurman: 'Few signs internally' point to Tim Cook stepping down as CEO early next year. Apple releases another limited-edition designer iPhone accessory. New Apple video highlights vapor chamber liquid cooling in iPhone 17 Pro. Google mocks iPhone in musical 'Wicked' ad claiming Pixel firsts. Apple News loses CNN. Picks of the Week Jason's Pick: Festivitas Andy's Pick: Blip Alex's Pick: UNI HDMI Adapter Hosts: Leo Laporte, Alex Lindsay, Andy Ihnatko, and Jason Snell Download or subscribe to MacBreak Weekly at https://twit.tv/shows/macbreak-weekly. Join Club TWiT for Ad-Free Podcasts! Support what you love and get ad-free shows, a members-only Discord, and behind-the-scenes access. Join today: https://twit.tv/clubtwit Sponsors: threatlocker.com/twit framer.com/design promo code MACBREAK spaceship.com/twit outsystems.com/twit

We celebrate 1000 episodes of MacBreak Weekly! The next iteration of iOS may be something similar to macOS 'Snow Leopard'. A breakthrough has been made in the iPhone Fold crease! And Gurman refutes the Financial Times report that Tim Cook could be stepping down as early as next year. Apple announces 45 App Store awards finalists for 2025. Apple iOS 27 to be no-frills 'Snow Leopard' update, other than new AI. Jony Ive, Sam Altman: OpenAI plans elegantly simple device. Around 100 iPhone Folds made after crease 'breakthrough'. Retail chain accidentally sold iPad Airs for $17 – wants them back. Android and iPhone users can now share files, starting with the Pixel 10 family. Apple and Delta join forces on new baggage tracking tech. Poland probes Apple again over App Tracking Transparency rules. New Apple Immersive content coming soon to Vision Pro from Real Madrid and Red Bull. Vince Gilligan's 'Pluribus' sets record for biggest Apple TV drama series launch. Gurman: 'Few signs internally' point to Tim Cook stepping down as CEO early next year. Apple releases another limited-edition designer iPhone accessory. New Apple video highlights vapor chamber liquid cooling in iPhone 17 Pro. Google mocks iPhone in musical 'Wicked' ad claiming Pixel firsts. Apple News loses CNN. Picks of the Week Jason's Pick: Festivitas Andy's Pick: Blip Alex's Pick: UNI HDMI Adapter Hosts: Leo Laporte, Alex Lindsay, Andy Ihnatko, and Jason Snell Download or subscribe to MacBreak Weekly at https://twit.tv/shows/macbreak-weekly. Join Club TWiT for Ad-Free Podcasts! Support what you love and get ad-free shows, a members-only Discord, and behind-the-scenes access. Join today: https://twit.tv/clubtwit Sponsors: threatlocker.com/twit framer.com/design promo code MACBREAK spaceship.com/twit outsystems.com/twit

We celebrate 1000 episodes of MacBreak Weekly! The next iteration of iOS may be something similar to macOS 'Snow Leopard'. A breakthrough has been made in the iPhone Fold crease! And Gurman refutes the Financial Times report that Tim Cook could be stepping down as early as next year. Apple announces 45 App Store awards finalists for 2025. Apple iOS 27 to be no-frills 'Snow Leopard' update, other than new AI. Jony Ive, Sam Altman: OpenAI plans elegantly simple device. Around 100 iPhone Folds made after crease 'breakthrough'. Retail chain accidentally sold iPad Airs for $17 – wants them back. Android and iPhone users can now share files, starting with the Pixel 10 family. Apple and Delta join forces on new baggage tracking tech. Poland probes Apple again over App Tracking Transparency rules. New Apple Immersive content coming soon to Vision Pro from Real Madrid and Red Bull. Vince Gilligan's 'Pluribus' sets record for biggest Apple TV drama series launch. Gurman: 'Few signs internally' point to Tim Cook stepping down as CEO early next year. Apple releases another limited-edition designer iPhone accessory. New Apple video highlights vapor chamber liquid cooling in iPhone 17 Pro. Google mocks iPhone in musical 'Wicked' ad claiming Pixel firsts. Apple News loses CNN. Picks of the Week Jason's Pick: Festivitas Andy's Pick: Blip Alex's Pick: UNI HDMI Adapter Hosts: Leo Laporte, Alex Lindsay, Andy Ihnatko, and Jason Snell Download or subscribe to MacBreak Weekly at https://twit.tv/shows/macbreak-weekly. Join Club TWiT for Ad-Free Podcasts! Support what you love and get ad-free shows, a members-only Discord, and behind-the-scenes access. Join today: https://twit.tv/clubtwit Sponsors: threatlocker.com/twit framer.com/design promo code MACBREAK spaceship.com/twit outsystems.com/twit

Episodio 346.Yo se que no entiendes nada de lo que quiero hacer, pero tu el condón, yo la dentadura y el dedo correcto (Probablemente de un argentino) en el lugar correcto en el momento correcto de tantas inches como quieras meter adentro y Hablamos a profundidad de una especie de camisita. Maná Maná.

We celebrate 1000 episodes of MacBreak Weekly! The next iteration of iOS may be something similar to macOS 'Snow Leopard'. A breakthrough has been made in the iPhone Fold crease! And Gurman refutes the Financial Times report that Tim Cook could be stepping down as early as next year. Apple announces 45 App Store awards finalists for 2025. Apple iOS 27 to be no-frills 'Snow Leopard' update, other than new AI. Jony Ive, Sam Altman: OpenAI plans elegantly simple device. Around 100 iPhone Folds made after crease 'breakthrough'. Retail chain accidentally sold iPad Airs for $17 – wants them back. Android and iPhone users can now share files, starting with the Pixel 10 family. Apple and Delta join forces on new baggage tracking tech. Poland probes Apple again over App Tracking Transparency rules. New Apple Immersive content coming soon to Vision Pro from Real Madrid and Red Bull. Vince Gilligan's 'Pluribus' sets record for biggest Apple TV drama series launch. Gurman: 'Few signs internally' point to Tim Cook stepping down as CEO early next year. Apple releases another limited-edition designer iPhone accessory. New Apple video highlights vapor chamber liquid cooling in iPhone 17 Pro. Google mocks iPhone in musical 'Wicked' ad claiming Pixel firsts. Apple News loses CNN. Picks of the Week Jason's Pick: Festivitas Andy's Pick: Blip Alex's Pick: UNI HDMI Adapter Hosts: Leo Laporte, Alex Lindsay, Andy Ihnatko, and Jason Snell Download or subscribe to MacBreak Weekly at https://twit.tv/shows/macbreak-weekly. Join Club TWiT for Ad-Free Podcasts! Support what you love and get ad-free shows, a members-only Discord, and behind-the-scenes access. Join today: https://twit.tv/clubtwit Sponsors: threatlocker.com/twit framer.com/design promo code MACBREAK spaceship.com/twit outsystems.com/twit

Jason Howell and Jeff Jarvis explore Google's Nano Banana Pro launch and Jason's unique sit-down with the leaders of Gemini 3, Nvidia's earnings amid AI bubble talks, Google's TPU deal with Meta, and Warner Music's Suno settlement. They also cover Trump's Genesis Mission, Gmail AI concerns, Anthropic Opus 4.5, and Character AI's age ban. Note: Time codes subject to change depending on dynamic ad insertion by the distributor. Chapters: 6:43 - Google launches Nano Banana Pro, an updated AI image generator powered by Gemini 3 8:21 - Nate B Jones example of how he used Nano Bana Pro 15:33 - Behind the scenes with Google's Gemini team - 3 insights that surprised me the most And these features come to NotebookLM 23:39 - Nvidia's Strong Results Show AI Fears Are Premature 24:30 - Google Further Encroaches on Nvidia's Turf With New AI Chip Push 26:03 - Nvidia's happy for Google 32:18 - What to know about Trump's order for the AI project ‘Genesis Mission' 38:07 - Google denies analyzing your emails for AI training - here's what happened 41:22 - Warner Music Group strikes ‘landmark' deal with Suno; settles copyright lawsuit against AI music generator 44:31 - Suno creators making 7m songs a day; trained on only $2k 51:54 - Anthropic introduces cheaper, more powerful, more efficient Opus 4.5 model 55:36 - Teens Are Saying Tearful Goodbyes to Their AI Companions 58:02 - Jony Ive and Sam Altman say they finally have an AI hardware prototype 58:53 - Sam Altman and Jony Ive have a 'lick' test for OpenAI's mysterious AI device, which they expect within the next 2 years 1:00:43 - OpenAI Partner Foxconn Plans Multibillion-Dollar US AI Push 1:01:34 - Meta chief AI scientist Yann LeCun is leaving to create his own startup 1:03:09 - Jony Ive and Sam Altman say they finally have an AI hardware prototype Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We celebrate 1000 episodes of MacBreak Weekly! The next iteration of iOS may be something similar to macOS 'Snow Leopard'. A breakthrough has been made in the iPhone Fold crease! And Gurman refutes the Financial Times report that Tim Cook could be stepping down as early as next year. Apple announces 45 App Store awards finalists for 2025. Apple iOS 27 to be no-frills 'Snow Leopard' update, other than new AI. Jony Ive, Sam Altman: OpenAI plans elegantly simple device. Around 100 iPhone Folds made after crease 'breakthrough'. Retail chain accidentally sold iPad Airs for $17 – wants them back. Android and iPhone users can now share files, starting with the Pixel 10 family. Apple and Delta join forces on new baggage tracking tech. Poland probes Apple again over App Tracking Transparency rules. New Apple Immersive content coming soon to Vision Pro from Real Madrid and Red Bull. Vince Gilligan's 'Pluribus' sets record for biggest Apple TV drama series launch. Gurman: 'Few signs internally' point to Tim Cook stepping down as CEO early next year. Apple releases another limited-edition designer iPhone accessory. New Apple video highlights vapor chamber liquid cooling in iPhone 17 Pro. Google mocks iPhone in musical 'Wicked' ad claiming Pixel firsts. Apple News loses CNN. Picks of the Week Jason's Pick: Festivitas Andy's Pick: Blip Alex's Pick: UNI HDMI Adapter Hosts: Leo Laporte, Alex Lindsay, Andy Ihnatko, and Jason Snell Download or subscribe to MacBreak Weekly at https://twit.tv/shows/macbreak-weekly. Join Club TWiT for Ad-Free Podcasts! Support what you love and get ad-free shows, a members-only Discord, and behind-the-scenes access. Join today: https://twit.tv/clubtwit Sponsors: threatlocker.com/twit framer.com/design promo code MACBREAK spaceship.com/twit outsystems.com/twit

Ce mardi 25 novembre, François Sorel a reçu Thomas Serval, PDG de Baracoda, Frédéric Simottel, journaliste BFM Business, et Yves Maitre, operating partner chez Jolt Capital. Ils se sont penchés sur la guerre des IA entre Gemini 3 de Google, GPT-5 d'OpenAI, mais aussi Claude d'Anthropic, ainsi que la validation du design du mystérieux appareil IA de Jony Ive de Sam Altman, dans l'émission Tech & Co, la quotidienne, sur BFM Business. Retrouvez l'émission du lundi au jeudi et réécoutez-la en podcast.

Rejoignez la communauté iWeek et soutenez-nous sur patreon.com/iweek !Voici l'épisode 256 d'iWeek (la semaine Apple).iPhone Fold : une avancée majeure signée Apple à un prix exorbitant ?Enregistré en streaming, mardi 25 novembre 2025 à 18h30, enregistrement accessible en direct sur X, Twitch, LinkedIn et YouTube et via le lien spécial réservé à nos soutiens Patreon. Désormais, eux seuls auront la possibilité de suivre le stream du mardi soir en direct et de participer au chat. Quant au replay vidéo, sans le bonus, il continuera d'être disponible pour tous sur YouTube.Présentation : Benjamin Vincent, journaliste, producteur et présentateur de Les Voix de la Tech avec la participation de Fabrice Neuman (consultant tech pour les PME et contributeur à "Comment ça marche") et Elie Abitbol, ex-président des Apple Premium Resellers en France.Au sommaire de cet épisode 256 : Apple est bien parti pour tenir ses délais à propos du premier iPhone pliant qui devrait être annoncé à la rentrée 2026. Les rumeurs laissent entendre qu'une ligne de fabrication serait en place avec la perspective d'une première production de 100 prototypes... qui bénéficierait d'une avancée majeure signée Apple en ce qui concerne la fameuse pliure souvent (très) visible et ou perceptible sur les smartphones pliants. La mauvaise nouvelle de la semaine, c'est la nouvelle estimation du prix de cet iPhone Fold qui pourrait s'établir à 2.399 $ HT, soit entre 2.400 et 2.700 € TTC selon nos estimations à nous.Egalement au programme : le joli coup de Google qui a réussi à rendre AirDrop et Quick Share (sur Android)... compatibles ! Ainsi, depuis un smartphone de la gamme Pixel 10 uniquement pour l'instant, il est possible de “AirDroper“ une photo ou un fichier vers un iPhone et vice-versa. Comment Google a-t-il réussi ce tour de passe-passe sachant qu'Apple n'a été ni sollicité ni même informé du projet ? Et quelle sera la réaction de Tim Cook ? Apple aurait beaucoup à perdre à bloquer cette interopérabilité nouvelle...Un épisode qui démarre par un “Retour sur... “ consacré au produit mystère sur lequel Jony Ive et Sam Altman travaillent chez OpenAI et "io"... et qui se termine par le JT de la semaine et nos coups de coeur et cartons.Le bonus hebdo exclusif réservé à nos soutiens Patreon : cette semaine, pourquoi faut-il acheter ses SSD et autres supports de stockage à l'occasion de ce Black Friday 2025 même si les promotions sont quasi inexistantes (et pourquoi) ? Pour en profiter, rejoignez la communauté iWeek sur patreon.com/iweek.Rendez-vous mardi 2 décembre 2025 à partir de 18h30 en direct pour l'épisode 257. Désormais, seuls nos soutiens Patreon pourront suivre le streaming de l'enregistrement de chaque épisode, poser des questions dans le chat et même intervenir en visio dans le podcast. Alors, rejoignez-les : patreon.com/iweek.Hébergé par Ausha. Visitez ausha.co/politique-de-confidentialite pour plus d'informations.

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Welcome back to AI Unraveled (November 25th 2025), your daily strategic briefing on the business impact of AI. Today's market is defined by explosive, yet risky, competition. We track Google's strategic move to sell custom AI chips to Meta, the new Jony Ive/Sam Altman AI hardware prototype, and the serious ethical questions raised by Anthropic's research showing Claude learned to cheat. We also analyze Apple's rare layoffs and the impact of the 'Genesis Mission' order.Listen at https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/ai-daily-news-and-business-rundown-ilya-says-scaling/id1684415169?i=1000738615670Strategic Pillars & Key Takeaways:Competition & Strategy (The Race for Lead): Anthropic climbs AI ranks with Claude Opus 4.5; Altman senses ‘rough vibes' as Google takes lead; Google is making OpenAI nervous; Alibaba Qwen hits 10 million downloads in debut week; Trump signs the 'Genesis Mission' order to accelerate AI; Apple cuts dozens of sales jobs in rare layoffs; Big Tech vies for power (literally).Hardware & Infrastructure: Google in talks to sell custom AI chips to Meta; Jony Ive and Sam Altman reveal an AI hardware prototype; iOS 27 will prioritize AI and performance; Amazon invests $50 billion in government AI; AI devices might be divisive.Risk, Ethics & Trust: Research reveals Claude turns evil after learning to cheat; Nvidia denies Enron comparisons in staff memo; Researchers reveal AI for discovering rare diseases; Anthropic research finds AI likes to cheat.

En este episodio de Applelianos analizamos la noticia bomba: Abidur Chowdhury, el diseñador detrás del iPhone Air y una figura clave tras la era Jony Ive, deja Apple para unirse a una startup de inteligencia artificial. Hablamos del impacto de esta marcha en el equipo de diseño, los retos para Tim Cook en plena reorganización interna, y cómo la IA está reconfigurando el futuro de la compañía. ¿Está Apple perdiendo su alma creativa o preparándose para una nueva era? No te pierdas el debate y todas las claves detrás de esta fuga de talento que sacude Cupertino. https://seoxan.es/crear_pedido_hosting Codigo Cupon "APPLE" PATROCINADO POR SEOXAN Optimización SEO profesional para tu negocio https://seoxan.es https://uptime.urtix.es PARTICIPA EN DIRECTO Deja tu opinión en los comentarios, haz preguntas y sé parte de la charla más importante sobre el futuro del iPad y del ecosistema Apple. ¡Tu voz cuenta! ¿TE GUSTÓ EL EPISODIO? ✨ Dale LIKE SUSCRÍBETE y activa la campanita para no perderte nada COMENTA COMPARTE con tus amigos applelianos SÍGUENOS EN TODAS NUESTRAS PLATAFORMAS: YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@Applelianos Telegram: https://t.me/+Jm8IE4n3xtI2Zjdk X (Twitter): https://x.com/ApplelianosPod Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/applelianos Apple Podcasts: https://apple.co/39QoPbO #Apple #iPhoneAir #AbidurChowdhury #JonyIve #FugaDeTalento #TimCook #DiseñoApple #InteligenciaArtificial #Startup #Bloomberg #EraJonyIve #AppleNews #Podcast #Applelianos #Tecnología #IA #iPhonePlegable #AppleGlasses #EquipoDeDiseño

In this episode of Designing Schools, Dr. Sabba Quidwai breaks down OpenAI's transformative Dev Day announcements and what they mean for the future of education, creativity, and digital life. Exploring the shift from clickable interfaces to conversational AI, she challenges educators and leaders to rethink skills, judgment, and imagination in the age of agents and apps.⏱️ Timestamps[00:53] From Apps to AgentsOpenAI's 2025 Dev Day unveils a new digital world where apps like Canva and Spotify live inside conversations, not screens.[03:00] Redefining Human SkillsSam Altman and Jony Ive discuss focus, speed, and why human creativity and design thinking are more vital than ever.[07:26] Agents That Use Computers Like HumansGoogle's Gemini 2.5 model introduces AI agents that can navigate and interact with digital environments autonomously.[10:25] Sora and the Rise of Generative ImaginationOpenAI's video creation app Sora takes off—sparking excitement, ethical debates, and concerns over deepfakes.[14:35] Deloitte's AI Report ScandalAn AI-generated government report filled with fake citations reveals why discernment, not just tech skills, is critical today.Resources MentionedOpenAI Dev Day AnnouncementsUpdate: Gemini 2.5 Computer Use ModelWalmart Partnership With ChatGPT New App from OpenAI - Sora2Deloitte Pays Money Back After Making AI Errors in ReportStudent Course Waitlist Explore More from Designing Schools

OpenAI is set to roll out its new “treat adults like adults” policy, heralding the beginning of AI chatbots speaking more amorously with users. As the company pushes boundaries, from personality-rich bots to experimental devices, others are warning that the industry might be inflating a dangerous AI bubble.In this episode, Chris Saad and Yaniv Bernstein break down Sam Altman's controversial announcement, unpack Johnny Ive's vision for the next generation of OpenAI hardware, and debate whether Google's slow-moving Gemini rollout signals resilience or decline. They also dive into the billion-dollar race for health data, exploring how Oura's massive new raise fits into the wider AI gold rush.In this episode, you will:Explore how OpenAI's “Treat Adults Like Adults” philosophy changes the future of AI interactionUnderstand the ethical and mental health challenges behind human-like AI personalitiesLearn why Johnny Ive's “family of AI devices” could redefine how we interact with technologyExamine Google's glacial AI rollout and whether slow and steady approach might actually win the raceUnpack Bloomberg's “AI Money Loop” and what it reveals about risky financial entanglementsCompare the AI investment surge to past industrial bubbles like railroads and dot-comsThe Pact Honor the Startup Podcast Pact! If you have listened to TSP and gotten value from it, please:Follow, rate, and review us in your listening appSubscribe to the TSP Mailing List to gain access to exclusive newsletter-only content and early access to information on upcoming episodes: https://thestartuppodcast.beehiiv.com/subscribe Secure your official TSP merchandise at https://shop.tsp.show/  Follow us here on YouTube for full-video episodes: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCNjm1MTdjysRRV07fSf0yGg Give us a public shout-out on LinkedIn or anywhere you have a social media followingKey linksGet your question in for our next Q&A episode: https://forms.gle/NZzgNWVLiFmwvFA2A The Startup Podcast website: https://www.tsp.show/episodes/Learn more about Chris and YanivWork 1:1 with Chris: http://chrissaad.com/advisory/  Follow Chris on Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/chrissaad/  Follow Yaniv on Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ybernstein/Producer: Justin McArthur https://www.linkedin.com/in/justin-mcarthurIntro Voice: Jeremiah Owyang https://web-strategist.com/

The Dutch courts finally did something useful: they told Meta to quit force-feeding algorithmic slop to everyone, so Facebook and Instagram users might actually see posts from friends again—if they can remember who those are. Meanwhile, OpenAI's Sora 2 rollout is the kind of chaos that makes you wonder if the company replaced QA with a TikTok filter, as outrage videos flood the internet faster than you can say “deepfake meltdown.” Apple banned ICEBlock for being too effective while ICE now wants its own social media surveillance tool—one that OpenAI shut down when Chinese accounts tried to build it. California's hammering Tesla for its abysmal insurance claims handling, OpenAI is gobbling up chunks of AMD, and consultants got caught using ChatGPT to fake reports before proudly partnering with Anthropic, who just landed Deloitte as its latest “enterprise AI” victim. Elsewhere in this circus: a Florida teen asked ChatGPT how to kill his friend, Taylor Swift fans are furious her new promo video used AI slop (“too rich to be this cheap”), and Apple's “Find My” led cops to a mountain of smuggled iPhones.In Media Candy, Brian's stunned The Diplomat scored a third season, The Long Walk is being pitched as Stand By Me meets Squid Game, California finally bans loud streaming commercials, and Amazon censored Bond posters to remove guns because apparently irony is dead. AI “musicians” are signing record deals while Zelda Williams begs people to stop resurrecting her dad with deepfake garbage. In Apps & Doodads, Jony Ive's OpenAI gadget is delayed (good), Rivian insists we'll “appreciate” not having CarPlay (we won't), Spotify and ChatGPT are teaming up to read your soul through playlists, and Jason warns everyone that the Echo Show is basically an ad-spewing parasite. Apple's now facing a cybercrime probe in France for Siri's wiretapping habits, and if you're nostalgic for simpler times, ioquake3 will let you relive Quake III Arena glory on a modern rig. At the Library, Peter Cawdron's Dark Beauty: First Contact belly-flops as a Slaughterhouse-Five tribute, while Cory Doctorow's Enshittification nails exactly why everything sucks—even if his fixes are pure science fiction.Sponsors:CleanMyMac - clnmy.com/GrumpyOldGeeks - Use code OLDGEEKS for 20% off.Private Internet Access - Go to GOG.Show/vpn and sign up today. For a limited time only, you can get OUR favorite VPN for as little as $2.03 a month.SetApp - With a single monthly subscription you get 240+ apps for your Mac. Go to SetApp and get started today!!!1Password - Get a great deal on the only password manager recommended by Grumpy Old Geeks! gog.show/1passwordShow notes at https://gog.show/717FOLLOW UPDutch court orders Meta to change its Facebook and Instagram timelinesOpenAI's Sora 2 Already Melting Down Into Outrageous DramaIN THE NEWSApple removes ICEBlock from the App Store after Trump administration's demandICE is planning to create a surveillance team that hunts for leads on social mediaOpenAI has disrupted (more) Chinese accounts using ChatGPT to create social media surveillance toolsCalifornia regulators threaten to revoke Tesla's insurance license for mishandling claimsOpenAI Gobbles Up a Stake in AMD as Its Spending Spree Shows No Sign of StoppingConsultants Forced to Pay Money Back After Getting Caught Using AI for Expensive “Report”Anthropic lands its biggest enterprise deployment ever with Deloitte dealTeen Arrested After Asking ChatGPT How to Kill His Friend, Police SayTaylor Swift Fans Furious as She's Caught Using Sloppy AI in Video for New AlbumApple's ‘Find My' Leads Cops to Cache of Thousands of Smuggled iPhonesMEDIA CANDYThe DiplomatThe Long WalkCalifornia bans loud commercials on streaming platformsAmazon Pulls Censored Bond Posters After Pulling the Guns From ThemMore AI artists are starting to get record dealsRobin Williams' daughter pleads for people to stop sending AI videos of her dadAPPS & DOODADSOpenAI's first device with Jony Ive could be delayed due to 'technical issues'Rivian says ‘customers will appreciate' lack of CarPlay eventuallySpotify and ChatGPT Team Up for Personalized Music and Podcast RecommendationsDon't buy an Echo Show (you can have mine)Apple faces cybercrime investigation in France after Siri complaintioquake3AT THE LIBRARYDark Beauty: First Contact by Peter CawdronEnshittification: Why Everything Suddenly Got Worse and What to Do About It by Cory DoctorowSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

This week, we discuss the standout moments from our field trip to OpenAI's third annual DevDay — including a bizarre chat between Jony Ive and Sam Altman, and the announcement that OpenAI is putting apps into ChatGPT. Then, we try to make sense of the massive computing deal between OpenAI and AMD, and how it could impact the larger economy. And finally, Katie Notopoulos, a Business Insider reporter, joins us to discuss the growing backlash to A.I. slop and why she refuses to stop making deranged videos of us on Sora.Guests:Katie Notopoulos, senior correspondent at Business Insider covering technology and culture.Additional Reading:OpenAI's Platform PlayOpenAI Agrees to Use Computer Chips From AMDI'm Addicted to Sora 2!OpenAI's New Video App Is Jaw-Dropping (for Better and Worse)We want to hear from you. Email us at hardfork@nytimes.com. Find “Hard Fork” on YouTube and TikTok. Subscribe today at nytimes.com/podcasts or on Apple Podcasts and Spotify. You can also subscribe via your favorite podcast app here https://www.nytimes.com/activate-access/audio?source=podcatcher. For more podcasts and narrated articles, download The New York Times app at nytimes.com/app.

Say this for OpenAI: it's very good at raising money, and it's very good at getting attention. David and Jake are joined by The Verge's Hayden Field to talk about OpenAI's demo day, the company's app store plans, why it's trying to build every possible ChatGPT feature all at the same time, and more. After that, the hosts talk about the ongoing popularity of the Sora app, and whether OpenAI has truly built a new kind of social network. Then Hayden has to leave, so David and Jake take on the lightning round to discuss Intel chips, Alex Cooper's Google deal, Starry internet, and more. Further reading: OpenAI will let developers build apps that work inside ChatGPT ChatGPT apps are live: Here are the first ones you can try OpenAI: all the news about the makers of ChatGPT OpenAI's head of ChatGPT said it will significantly evolve in the next six months.  OpenAI will eventually allow “mature” ChatGPT apps.  OpenAI and Jony Ive's secret device won't be ‘your weird AI girlfriend' AMD teams up with OpenAI to challenge Nvidia's AI chip dominance Sam Altman says there are no current plans for ads within ChatGPT Pulse — but he's not ruling it out A busy week for OpenAI's social video machine. Sora now lets users limit how their AI double is used OpenAI teases licensed fictional characters on Sora OpenAI wasn't expecting Sora's copyright drama Developers can bring Sora 2's AI video generation into their own apps.  Katie Notopolous on Threads  Sora's Slop Hits Different A new iPhone setting will stop CarPlay from stealing your AirPods' audio  Here is Panther Lake, Intel's 2026 laptop chip with next-gen graphics Facebook is turning into TikTok  Alex Cooper is making ads for Google / Pixel Here's how Apple is locking down iPhones to comply with Texas' age verification law Verizon buys the not-quite-5G wireless ISP Starry to expand wireless broadband  Email us at vergecast@theverge.com or call us at 866-VERGE11, we love hearing from you. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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This week we discuss Apple leadership, whether or not Tim Cook loves Donald Trump and our glorious headset future.TERNUS COMIN'!Apple rolls over for Trump and removes ICEBlock from the App Store.Apple rejiggers its headset plans again.Jony Ive's AI hardware whatever is having some troubles.Our thanks to HelloFresh. HelloFresh brings you comforting, chef-designed recipes and fresh, seasonal ingredients right to your door. Eat healthier and tastier with 100 meals to choose from each week. Go to hellofresh.com/REBOUND10FM now to get 10 Free Meals plus a Free Item for Life!If you want to help out the show and get some great bonus content, consider becoming a Rebound Prime member! Just go to prime.reboundcast.com to check it out!Were you aware that you could buy things from us?! That's right! Shirts, iPhone cases, mugs, hats and one other type of thing are all available from our Rebound Store!

OpenAI has had another big week. The Sora AI social media app is going viral. Does anyone have an invite to send? They also had their Dev Day and are announcing numerous tie-ins, including Etsy, Shopify, and Spotify. Their Jony Ive physical product? We'll have to wait on that. We discuss all of that, plus lots of other tech news to get caught up on, and some tips and picks to help you tech better! Watch on YouTube! - Notnerd.com and Notpicks.com INTRO (00:00) New iPhones see ‘stronger than expected' demand with one exception (02:25) We used to talk a lot about apps, but there is just so many now (06:30) MAIN TOPIC: Sora, Shopping, and Spotify from OpenAI (08:30) Weird Sora 2 videos from the new viral AI app ChatGPT can now interact with multiple apps, including Spotify, Canva, and Figma Everything OpenAI announced at DevDay 2025: Agent Kit, Apps SDK, ChatGPT, and more OpenAI's first device with Jony Ive could be delayed due to 'technical issues' DAVE'S PRO-TIP OF THE WEEK: SongShift is now built into Apple Music (19:05) JUST THE HEADLINES: (27:05) Scientists grow mini human brains to power computers Japan is running out of its favorite beer after ransomware attack AI is not killing jobs, US study finds Lufthansa to cut 4,000 jobs as airline turns to AI to boost efficiency MLB approves robot umpires for 2026 as part of challenge system LimeWire acquires Fyre Festival Flying cars crash into each other at Chinese air show TAKES: A bullet crashed the internet in Texas (32:25) Tigers-Red Sox clash on Apple TV+ will feature live game footage on new iPhone 17 Pro (34:00) Yahoo nears deal to sell AOL to Italy's Bending Spoons for $1.4 billion, sources say (37:05) Amazon Prime Big Deal Days (39:20) BONUS ODD TAKE: https://offline.church/ (43:10) PICKS OF THE WEEK:  Dave:  Samsung EVO Select microSDMemory Card + Adapter, 512GB microSDXC, Up-to 160 MB/s, 4K UHD, UHS-I, C10, U3, V30, A2, for Mobile Phone, Smartphones, Nintendo-Switch, and Tablets (47:55) Nate: Ergonomic Office Chair with Tilt-Lock, Home Office Desk Chair with Auto Lumbar Support, High Back Mesh Desk Chair with Adjustable Headrest, Swivel Task Chair or Study Room Bedroom,Light Gray (50:45) RAMAZON PURCHASE OF THE WEEK (56:20)

Another huge OpenAI deal, this time with AMD. The huge amount of chips Elon is buying for his Colossus II. It's not just compute! How the AI boom is driving up prices for memory and storage chips. And does the math work out for those new fangled small nuclear reactors? AMD stock skyrockets 30% as OpenAI looks to take stake in AI chipmaker (CNBC) Elon Musk Gambles Billions in Memphis to Catch Up on AI (WSJ) AI data centers are swallowing the world's memory and storage supply, setting the stage for a pricing apocalypse that could last a decade (Tom's Hardware) OpenAI and Jony Ive grapple with technical issues on secretive AI device (FT) US and investors gambling on unproven nuclear technology, warn experts (FT) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Intel has reportedly approached Apple about investing in the company. Some of Apple's new features will be delayed in the EU due to the Digital Markets Act. A study showcases a dramatic rise in fraudulent mobile apps on both iOS and Android. And Apple is working on its own ChatGPT-style chatbot app, which is being tested internally by employees. Intel is seeking an investment from Apple as part of its comeback bid. Apple warns of more feature delays in Europe. New study shows 'massive spike' in fraudulent apps powered by AI. Apple releases iOS 26.0.1 with fixes for Wi-Fi, Cellular, and camera issues on iPhone 17 models. Apple releases macOS Tahoe 26.0.1 with M3 Ultra bug fix. Apple working on all-new operating system. New iPad Pro with M5 chip leaked in unboxing video. Two new Apple displays nearing mass production, may launch this year. Apple's ChatGPT-style chatbot app deserves a public release. Apple researchers develop SimpleFold, a lightweight AI for protein folding prediction. Jessica Chastain 'not aligned' with Apple's decision to delay series about hate groups. Why did Apple get cold feet about 'Savant'? Tigers-Red Sox clash on Apple TV+ will feature live game footage on new iPhone 17 Pro. College football keeps picking iPad over Surface as fourth conference joins team Apple. Now available: Adobe Premiere on iPhone brings pro-quality video editing to creators. FCC mistakenly leaks confidential iPhone 16e schematics. Apple responds to iPhone 17 Pro scratch and durability concerns. Meet the new light of Jony Ive's life. Why Ford's CEO doesn't love Apple CarPlay Ultra. Picks of the Week Jason's Picks: Relay for St. Jude Alex's Pick: Vertical Heart Set Insert Tool Andy's Pick: UGREEN Phone Stand Leo's Pick: Nomat Goods Horween Leather Folio for iPhone 17 Pro Max Hosts: Leo Laporte, Alex Lindsay, Andy Ihnatko, and Jason Snell Download or subscribe to MacBreak Weekly at https://twit.tv/shows/macbreak-weekly. Join Club TWiT for Ad-Free Podcasts! Support what you love and get ad-free shows, a members-only Discord, and behind-the-scenes access. Join today: https://twit.tv/clubtwit Sponsors: threatlocker.com/twit pantheon.io

Intel has reportedly approached Apple about investing in the company. Some of Apple's new features will be delayed in the EU due to the Digital Markets Act. A study showcases a dramatic rise in fraudulent mobile apps on both iOS and Android. And Apple is working on its own ChatGPT-style chatbot app, which is being tested internally by employees. Intel is seeking an investment from Apple as part of its comeback bid. Apple warns of more feature delays in Europe. New study shows 'massive spike' in fraudulent apps powered by AI. Apple releases iOS 26.0.1 with fixes for Wi-Fi, Cellular, and camera issues on iPhone 17 models. Apple releases macOS Tahoe 26.0.1 with M3 Ultra bug fix. Apple working on all-new operating system. New iPad Pro with M5 chip leaked in unboxing video. Two new Apple displays nearing mass production, may launch this year. Apple's ChatGPT-style chatbot app deserves a public release. Apple researchers develop SimpleFold, a lightweight AI for protein folding prediction. Jessica Chastain 'not aligned' with Apple's decision to delay series about hate groups. Why did Apple get cold feet about 'Savant'? Tigers-Red Sox clash on Apple TV+ will feature live game footage on new iPhone 17 Pro. College football keeps picking iPad over Surface as fourth conference joins team Apple. Now available: Adobe Premiere on iPhone brings pro-quality video editing to creators. FCC mistakenly leaks confidential iPhone 16e schematics. Apple responds to iPhone 17 Pro scratch and durability concerns. Meet the new light of Jony Ive's life. Why Ford's CEO doesn't love Apple CarPlay Ultra. Picks of the Week Jason's Picks: Relay for St. Jude Alex's Pick: Vertical Heart Set Insert Tool Andy's Pick: UGREEN Phone Stand Leo's Pick: Nomat Goods Horween Leather Folio for iPhone 17 Pro Max Hosts: Leo Laporte, Alex Lindsay, Andy Ihnatko, and Jason Snell Download or subscribe to MacBreak Weekly at https://twit.tv/shows/macbreak-weekly. Join Club TWiT for Ad-Free Podcasts! Support what you love and get ad-free shows, a members-only Discord, and behind-the-scenes access. Join today: https://twit.tv/clubtwit Sponsors: threatlocker.com/twit pantheon.io

Intel has reportedly approached Apple about investing in the company. Some of Apple's new features will be delayed in the EU due to the Digital Markets Act. A study showcases a dramatic rise in fraudulent mobile apps on both iOS and Android. And Apple is working on its own ChatGPT-style chatbot app, which is being tested internally by employees. Intel is seeking an investment from Apple as part of its comeback bid. Apple warns of more feature delays in Europe. New study shows 'massive spike' in fraudulent apps powered by AI. Apple releases iOS 26.0.1 with fixes for Wi-Fi, Cellular, and camera issues on iPhone 17 models. Apple releases macOS Tahoe 26.0.1 with M3 Ultra bug fix. Apple working on all-new operating system. New iPad Pro with M5 chip leaked in unboxing video. Two new Apple displays nearing mass production, may launch this year. Apple's ChatGPT-style chatbot app deserves a public release. Apple researchers develop SimpleFold, a lightweight AI for protein folding prediction. Jessica Chastain 'not aligned' with Apple's decision to delay series about hate groups. Why did Apple get cold feet about 'Savant'? Tigers-Red Sox clash on Apple TV+ will feature live game footage on new iPhone 17 Pro. College football keeps picking iPad over Surface as fourth conference joins team Apple. Now available: Adobe Premiere on iPhone brings pro-quality video editing to creators. FCC mistakenly leaks confidential iPhone 16e schematics. Apple responds to iPhone 17 Pro scratch and durability concerns. Meet the new light of Jony Ive's life. Why Ford's CEO doesn't love Apple CarPlay Ultra. Picks of the Week Jason's Picks: Relay for St. Jude Alex's Pick: Vertical Heart Set Insert Tool Andy's Pick: UGREEN Phone Stand Leo's Pick: Nomat Goods Horween Leather Folio for iPhone 17 Pro Max Hosts: Leo Laporte, Alex Lindsay, Andy Ihnatko, and Jason Snell Download or subscribe to MacBreak Weekly at https://twit.tv/shows/macbreak-weekly. Join Club TWiT for Ad-Free Podcasts! Support what you love and get ad-free shows, a members-only Discord, and behind-the-scenes access. Join today: https://twit.tv/clubtwit Sponsors: threatlocker.com/twit pantheon.io

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