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AI Device Wars Heat Up, RIP Metaverse?, Netflix Acquires Warner Brothers
- ▶ 2:39 Alex Kantrowitz And that was that Apple's head of user interface design, Alan Dye, along with the deputy and maybe some other team members, went over to Meta. 22 times in the scene
- ▶ 8:27 Ranjan Roy I mean, everything about Apple UI has gotten more complex, messy, difficult, like even, like, you know, Vision Pro aside, just the core iOS has just, it used to be this, like, simple thing that was a pleasure to use. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 12:33 Alex Kantrowitz And let's start with Apple. 16 times in the scene
- ▶ 15:14 Alex Kantrowitz But again, like they try to do that with Apple intelligence.
- ▶ 15:25 Ranjan Roy Were the W three chip and how easily they sync.
- ▶ 21:53 Ranjan Roy When I go to the Apple store, when I go to the Google store, when I was buying my Meta Ray-Bans, the poor store associate, just me gnawing on the thing to the side.
- ▶ 32:31 Ranjan Roy I think moving to all these other new form factors and opportunities, the fact that they're going all in hiring the Apple execs.
Tim Cook’s Final Year?, Big Tech Horse Race, Anthropic’s Profitability Push
- ▶ 0:00 Alex Kantrowitz Is Tim Cook about to step down from Apple? 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:33 Alex Kantrowitz It is interesting that the company that has sort of been on the outs in this generative AI race, and we'll start here today, has been, has been Apple. 16 times in the scene
- ▶ 8:44 M.G. Siegler Like famously, the Apple watch was the thing that he seemed to be sort of, you know, spearheading and the thing that he would present often in, uh, in the, in the, you know, yearly presentations and whatnot.
- ▶ 12:20 Alex Kantrowitz In particular, does it end when he, when he steps down, or does it end when Apple does run into that rough road that is inevitably going to come for it? 16 times in the scene
- ▶ 13:40 M.G. Siegler Product unveil, because as we know, the Vision Pro just hasn't sort of, you know, lit the world on fire. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 20:05 M.G. Siegler I mean, the Apple watch certainly I think is, is, you know, a bonafide hit at this point, but it's not something that's at the iPhone level, certainly. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 22:02 Alex Kantrowitz Okay, then lastly on Apple, or maybe second to last, because I want to talk about the phones before we end this segment, but, um, let's just talk about this argument that Apple was wise for not, you know, plowing a lot of money into… 10 times in the scene
- ▶ 25:01 M.G. Siegler Apple Maps, uh, scenario, which hopefully not executed to the same way, but I think that they, they learned their lesson the hard way that time.
- ▶ 25:44 Alex Kantrowitz Okay, so lastly on Apple, Cyber Monday. 7 times in the scene
- ▶ 30:15 Alex Kantrowitz Well, here I go after this, make my, trudge my way over to the app, the Apple store and say, once again, can I ask you one, one, uh,
- ▶ 32:37 M.G. Siegler And obviously he's by, uh, you know, by all accounts, the best source to Apple, uh, reporter at this point, um, that he's heard that there's anything, but I also think like his sources within, like, if this is a, 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 35:31 Alex Kantrowitz Apple has played that role for a long time. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 44:29 M.G. Siegler And then Apple is the, you know, the wild card, which is why I think Apple, you know, we talked about, um, not, not getting hit by the CapEx stuff and everything, but Apple is, you know, about to, they're in second place right now. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 49:18 M.G. Siegler Um, Apple, that is sort of off to the side.
Google Pushes OpenAI, Bezos Returns, AI’s No. 1 Hit
- ▶ 32:21 unnamed speaker And just like, I'm just like anticipating so much of my like future paycheck going to Google and Apple subscriptions.
OpenAI’s IPO Plan, Deconstructing The AI Bet, Apple’s iPhone 17 Revival
- ▶ 0:04 Alex Kantrowitz Plus, we deconstruct the broader AI bet and ask what happens if it fails, and Apple's back in a surprising way. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 24:12 M.G. Siegler Cause that's obviously it sort of layers in a, an Apple like narrative, right? 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 43:55 Alex Kantrowitz I definitely want to talk with you about some positive news in the Apple world, and I think we've talked about obviously Apple's AI failures. 9 times in the scene
- ▶ 49:55 Alex Kantrowitz In, if you take the fact that the 17 is doing really well, and Apple Intelligence is still nowhere, um, but it doesn't seem to matter. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 51:18 M.G. Siegler And that's part of what Apple's promise was right. 2 times in the scene
OpenAI and Microsoft’s Grand Bargain, Sam Altman’s Next Three Years, A New Humanoid Robot
- ▶ 46:20 Ranjan Roy I think they're gonna go actually start competing with Apple.
OpenAI’s Risky Browser Bet, Amazon’s Mass Automation Plan, Clippy’s Back
- ▶ 17:21 Ranjan Roy Whether it's a Microsoft or a Google or even an Apple or whoever else, I think OpenAI is gonna lose that battle any day of the week.
Amazon's Panos Panay: The Reality of Building Alexa Plus and AI Assistants
- ▶ 20:27 Alex Kantrowitz We've seen visions from Google, from, uh, from Apple, from Amazon about this, uh, catch all, uh, or, um, I don't know, this always there, contextually aware, helpful personal assistant.
- ▶ 26:37 Alex Kantrowitz Um, and you know, it, it probably, when we see, I'll just pick on Apple for a moment.
- ▶ 26:42 Alex Kantrowitz When we see the Apple intelligence, WWDC, where you see cool videos of all this working seamlessly,
- ▶ 40:16 Alex Kantrowitz Apple would release a product when it was perfect.
How Enterprises Actually Get ROI From AI — With Globant CEO Martin Migoya
- ▶ 16:30 Alex Kantrowitz Uh, uh, application is to, you know, narrow down or to direct the bot to the right stuff, and that's why we've seen, I think that's why we've seen delays there, and the Apple intelligence issue is if you try to get all the data, uh, into…
Erotic ChatGPT, Zuck’s Apple Assault, AI’s Sameness Problem
- ▶ 0:06 Alex Kantrowitz Zuck poaches another Apple executive. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 9:41 Alex Kantrowitz Uh, just, if you think about the level of hallucination, like I'm going to read out a list of Apple researchers, uh, that have left meta.
- ▶ 27:59 Alex Kantrowitz On the other side of this break, we're going to talk about Google's, uh, promising new AI, uh, well development for treating cancer, and then we'll also get into, um, Zuck's, uh, war with Apple, and then of course, AI same as problem.
- ▶ 39:05 Alex Kantrowitz Um, all right, let's, uh, let's talk about Zuck and Apple, because I have a theory here and a hot take that I wanted to share with you, and maybe I should write about this.
- ▶ 39:13 Alex Kantrowitz Apple's newly tapped head of ChatGPT-like AI search effort to leave for meta. 16 times in the scene
- ▶ 43:18 Alex Kantrowitz You are spot on as Apple moves from the Vision Pro to its own smart glasses initiative.
Will AI Kill Software? — With Salesforce Co-Founder Parker Harris
- ▶ 13:34 Alex Kantrowitz Uh, I've heard the same demo from OpenAI, from Apple, from Amazon, from Google, and from Facebook.
AGI or Bust, OpenAI’s $1 Trillion Gamble, Apple’s Next CEO?
- ▶ 0:12 Alex Kantrowitz And he's the front runner to be Apple's next CEO. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 45:32 Alex Kantrowitz I'm, I, I don't know why I can't get excited about this, or maybe I do feel like I've heard this from Google, from Amazon, from Apple, and OpenAI again, um, and, uh, and I'm not, like, gonna lose my mind over the platformization over, of…
- ▶ 54:28 Alex Kantrowitz Apple puts hardware chief John Ternus in the succession spotlight. 11 times in the scene
- ▶ 55:46 Ranjan Roy The day, they can only squeeze so many, 29 99 Apple one subscriptions out of me before, before this just has to go somewhere else, so.
How Business Software Transforms In The Age Of AI — With Zeb Evans
- ▶ 23:18 Alex Kantrowitz I mean, that's been the problem with, uh, Apple intelligence, I think, and some of the Alexa plus delays that we've seen is that
Anthropic Chief Product Officer: Why AI Model Development Is Accelerating
- ▶ 18:48 Mike Krieger And so, um, actually just saw that Apple featured us today as our, you know, like, uh, like new features, like for, for Sonic 4.5. 2 times in the scene
OpenAI and AMD's Megadeal, Sam Altman and Jony Ive’s Bumpy Start. Meta vs. Apple
- ▶ 0:12 Alex Kantrowitz And Meta and Apple and maybe the rest of the tech world are on a collision course.
- ▶ 0:40 Alex Kantrowitz Uh, at this point, we also have Sam Altman and Johnny Ive running into some bumps as they begin to build their AI device and meta and apple, and maybe Amazon and Google all are basically on a collision course to build the same thing.
- ▶ 36:23 M.G. Siegler The hardware part is now the hard part, which is always the hard part, but you know, companies like Amazon or Apple or Google can figure that out because they have their massive companies at scale. 7 times in the scene
- ▶ 37:42 M.G. Siegler Like these, the timelines are sort of starting to line up, especially with what we're talking about with delays, you know, potentially it's a open AI device and, uh, where we know that, uh, Apple from the, you know, most recent Mark Gurman…
- ▶ 41:24 M.G. Siegler I don't think you'll see Apple do like, yeah, like a screen lists AI device.
- ▶ 44:14 Alex Kantrowitz Let's get Alexa plus out there after they saw that Apple, uh, you know, didn't, uh, uh, release or, or get as much of Apple intelligence out there and they got killed for it. 16 times in the scene
- ▶ 44:14 Alex Kantrowitz Let's get Alexa plus out there after they saw that Apple, uh, you know, didn't, uh, uh, release or, or get as much of Apple intelligence out there and they got killed for it.
- ▶ 44:28 Alex Kantrowitz First of all, I want to get your take on, well, second of all, I want to get your take on the vision pro before we leave, because yeah,
- ▶ 45:57 M.G. Siegler It's now for things like their glasses where they feel like they can't have the same level of connectivity that like an Apple watch does because they're not first party hardware. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 51:05 Alex Kantrowitz Let's just do the requiem for the Vision Pro. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 51:07 Alex Kantrowitz I remember back in the day, uh, hearing Apple make lofty promises about the future of, uh, spatial computing. 8 times in the scene
- ▶ 51:51 M.G. Siegler Um, the one that you're talking about, of course, is that they're, they're going to at least put on the back burner, the idea of a vision air or just the vision without the pro part of it, the slighter, the smaller, lighter, 2 times in the scene
Sora 2 & AI’s Slop Era, Death Of The Creator Economy?, Apple’s SmartGlasses Roadmap
- ▶ 0:00 Alex Kantrowitz The gates of content hell are open as OpenAI's Sora II debuts with ultra-realistic AI slop, and Apple has elevated its smart glasses plan, and they could be coming soon.
- ▶ 0:41 Alex Kantrowitz We'll also talk about Apple smart glasses and the fact that it's speeding it up in the roadmap and plenty more.
- ▶ 30:55 Alex Kantrowitz And, um, and we will also cover the fact that Apple has seen what Meta is doing with its AI glasses and decided to accelerate its own smart glasses roadmap.
- ▶ 43:47 Alex Kantrowitz Let's talk about the Apple forthcoming smart glasses. 19 times in the scene
- ▶ 43:52 Alex Kantrowitz Apple's, uh, smart glasses are so important to it that it's shelving the Vision Pro headset, uh, this 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 48:43 Alex Kantrowitz I think you need like to get the translate app and probably I'm on the 15 pro for my phone.
- ▶ 51:30 Max Zeff It does feel kind of like an early Apple product in the way it's packaged at least.
OpenAI’s & NVIDIA's $100 Billion Marriage, Meta’s Sloppy Vibes, TikTok Deal Arrives?
- ▶ 25:15 Alex Kantrowitz Of Amazon, Apple, Alphabet, Microsoft, Meta, and Nvidia, and more than five times the size of the entire global subscription software market.
- ▶ 36:31 Alex Kantrowitz President Donald Trump, Apple, American manufacturing program signed by Tim Cook made in the USA.
Revealed: OpenAI Tells Us ChatGPT's Major Use Cases
- ▶ 43:25 Alex Kantrowitz They said the same thing about the Apple Watch, and I'm sure you've been with people who you're having a conversation with, and their wrist buzzes, and they look at it, and it's some dumb notification, and it ruins the train of…
- ▶ 45:32 Ranjan Roy Apple destroyed what is a live demo. 2 times in the scene
Are 95% of Businesses Really Getting No Return on AI Investment? — With Aaron Levie
- ▶ 25:19 Alex Kantrowitz Consumer companies like let's say Amazon with Alexa plus and Apple with Apple intelligence to put this together as something, um, on device or a consumer product that does similar activities because they've all promised it, but it's not…
- ▶ 25:19 Alex Kantrowitz Consumer companies like let's say Amazon with Alexa plus and Apple with Apple intelligence to put this together as something, um, on device or a consumer product that does similar activities because they've all promised it, but it's not…
Do We Care About The iPhone Air?, Nepal's Discord Revolution, San Francisco’s 996 Culture
- ▶ 1:15 Ranjan Roy On the Apple announcement day, I had forgotten about it until I think late evening when I started to see a couple of tweets coming through, but I don't know, this, this announcement, I was, I was not excited. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 3:03 Alex Kantrowitz Um, given how often I'm doing selfies, there's also, there's a new processor with the full a-nineteen pro chip.
- ▶ 5:50 Alex Kantrowitz I mean, we never had a question about whether Apple was the best phone maker in the world. 9 times in the scene
- ▶ 12:15 Alex Kantrowitz Does Samsung, for instance, by virtue of its partnership with perplexity now have potentially convert some iPhone users away from Apple or iPhone customers away from Apple because it has that generative AI, uh, offering? 7 times in the scene
- ▶ 15:19 Ranjan Roy Adding a heart rate monitor to it versus just having the Apple Watch as your exercise device didn't make a lot of sense to me, but the live translation is a good, like, uh, kind of actually kind of building on what we were talking about…
Google’s Best Week Ever, AI’s Rising Costs, Putin and Xi’s Immortality Quest
- ▶ 0:00 Alex Kantrowitz Google had the best week maybe ever, breaking Gemini ground with Apple and fending off the feds. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:24 Alex Kantrowitz There have been a lot of reports coming out about the new plans that Apple has, both for its devices and for Siri, and every time a new story comes out about what's going on with Siri, it seems to point to Google, which is really great… 17 times in the scene
- ▶ 5:23 Alex Kantrowitz An Apple intelligence thing.
- ▶ 9:16 Alex Kantrowitz And then this week we got the remedies and there was talk about whether or not Google, uh, would have to, you know, spin off Chrome, spin off Android, whether it completely had to stop doing distribution deals with companies like Apple. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 31:00 Alex Kantrowitz Next week, we have two, well, no, one big event from Apple. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 32:23 Alex Kantrowitz The big promises about a new Siri and Apple intelligence, and now they're going to give me a less powerful, thinner phone, throw it out the window.
Inside Google's Generative AI Reinvention — With Nick Fox and Liz Reid
- ▶ 4:46 Alex Kantrowitz We've seen Google, we've seen Amazon, we've seen Apple all try to roll out this contextually aware assistant that gets things done for you. 2 times in the scene
Can We Save The Web From AI? — With Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince
- ▶ 5:59 Matthew Prince Google has actually reported this and it actually came out in the Apple, uh, trial as well, where they're seeing more of this traffic actually going to other sources.
Vibe Coding: Everything You Need To Know — With Amjad Masad
- ▶ 2:11 Amjad Masad So, you know, for example, like, um, Apple had this piece of software called, uh, HyperCard.
- ▶ 4:35 Amjad Masad Steve Jobs looks at desktops, menus, items, and, and he's like, he has the Apple II. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 14:03 Amjad Masad So the mainframes, really big room-sized computers, uh, IBM used to make them, large corporations and governments use them in universities, but everyday people didn't have access to them until Apple created the Apple II.
- ▶ 14:03 Amjad Masad So the mainframes, really big room-sized computers, uh, IBM used to make them, large corporations and governments use them in universities, but everyday people didn't have access to them until Apple created the Apple II.
Mark Zuckerberg’s Personal Superintelligence, Layoffs & Payoffs, Writing With AI — With M.G. Siegler
- ▶ 33:05 Alex Kantrowitz Apple owns stakes in none of the big AI startups. 2 times in the scene
Countdown to GPT-5, OpenAI’s Stargate Sputters, AI Math Wars
- ▶ 49:10 Stephen Morris They're going to lose the right to be Apple's exclusive search engine provider on Safari across its devices.
Are AI's Economics Unsustainable? — With Ed Zitron
- ▶ 6:05 Alex Kantrowitz Well, it's interesting because even in the antitrust hearings, because they're talking about now whether Google will be able to even pay Apple the twenty billion plus a year.
- ▶ 18:22 Alex Kantrowitz I mean, I think one example, I'm curious what you think about this, is when Apple cut off Facebook's ability to measure whether people were buying after seeing their ads, and then Facebook got... 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 37:06 Ed Zitron You have Apple.
Grok's AI Lovebot, Aqui-Hire-Sition Backlash, OpenAI's ChatGPT Agent Debuts
- ▶ 35:40 Alex Kantrowitz I think, I mean, everything from Apple intelligence to Alexa plus, um, just doesn't seem like these agents are able to do the full range of things that people want to get them to do, including, uh, 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 37:15 unnamed speaker Are avoiding them and waiting.
- ▶ 48:53 unnamed speaker It's why you see Apple intelligence as a complete failure.
OpenAI’s Windsurf Crash, Grok’s Wild Week, Replace Tim Cook? — With Aaron Levie
- ▶ 0:05 Alex Kantrowitz Elon Musk's Grok had one hell of a week, Nvidia becomes the first four trillion dollar company, and should Apple replace Tim Cook, as some analysts are suggesting? 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 31:48 Alex Kantrowitz Uh, I think MG Siegler pointed out that the first a trillion dollar company was Apple. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 37:20 Alex Kantrowitz So of course there's a company that they've replaced as like the one that's been setting these bars with, which is Apple. 10 times in the scene