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Apple’s Folding Phone "Duo" Is Here + OpenAI vs. Google vs. Anthropic Revisited — With M.G. Siegler
- ▶ 8:15 M.G. Siegler Wall Street has nothing to worry about because, uh, we've got all these new products in and, and people are excited about new Macs and, you know, new Mac minis for, for the AI revolution and all this sort of stuff that's sort of come in.
- ▶ 8:15 M.G. Siegler Wall Street has nothing to worry about because, uh, we've got all these new products in and, and people are excited about new Macs and, you know, new Mac minis for, for the AI revolution and all this sort of stuff that's sort of come in.
- ▶ 34:02 M.G. Siegler How Apple also deals with the marketing here will be fascinating because of course, when they've been asked about this ad nauseum over the past several years with lots of windows, uh, you know, units on the market, uh, touch screen… 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 38:41 M.G. Siegler and they've historically not done that, even though they have it on the Mac and, you know, they've had it other places, they haven't done that there.
- ▶ 42:20 M.G. Siegler Fell on their face a little bit, but also took a step back, maybe, you know, not by choice, and was forced to take a step back and realize, like, we still have the hardware advantage that no one else has, and so how do we actually take…
Demis Steps Down, Apple’s Memory Problem, Microsoft’s Clever Trick
- ▶ 17:56 Alex Kantrowitz Because they, I think they raise prices on some of these, uh, Mac computers by 20, 30%.
- ▶ 29:11 M.G. Siegler It's also for Mac. 2 times in the scene
Leopold Blows Up, OpenAI Drastically Cuts Prices, Microsoft’s Best Day
- ▶ 37:42 Reed Albergotti Are you, I mean, when I use, um, Codex, you know, their, their desktop, their, I guess now it's just ChatGPT, the desktop app on Mac.
Kimi K3 & AI’s Price War, What’s Happening To Google?, OpenAI’s Partner Trouble
- ▶ 21:07 Ranjan Roy ChatGPT, the new Mac app, they're removing more of the actual chat function, like, the chat experience.
Who Wins The AI Superapp Battle?, Apple’s Consumer AI Victory, World Cup Automation Mistake
- ▶ 18:28 M.G. Siegler Usage, at least on, on a Mac, like, which is what they have right now.
Mythos is Back, OpenAI Releases GPT 5.6, Apple’s Price Increases
- ▶ 41:53 Alex Kantrowitz Let's go to our, uh, this, this, our last story, which is that Apple has raised the prices on the max iPads by 200 dollars or more on some models. 3 times in the scene
SpaceX’s IPO Triumph, Anthropic’s Fable Fumble, OpenAI’s Price War
- ▶ 48:33 Ranjan Roy I have been going back and forth because apparently you, if you upgrade to the developer beta on your Mac, you can already install Siri, uh, via the command line, but I've not done it yet.
Did Google Just Fall Behind Again?, WWDC Preview, Anthropic Files To Go Public
- ▶ 13:32 M.G. Siegler Like this is a way to access Gemini, um, you know, natively on a Mac right now.
The Right Way To Build AI Agents — With NVIDIA's Adel El Hallak and ServiceNow's Joe Davis
- ▶ 6:44 Alex Kantrowitz So, Joe, do you want to just share a little bit about, um, the rise of the Claws, what Open Claw is, and, um, I think the perception is that you run it on a Mac Mini
PwC’s Dallas Dolen: AI Hardware’s Advantage, TokenMaxxing, Automation’s Impact
- ▶ 7:12 Dallas Dolen They would love to import more because more people want Mac minis to run their claw bots or whatever it might be.
The Allure of AI Love + Does Anyone Want AI Wearables? — With Joanna Stern
- ▶ 8:36 Joanna Stern But you can use, I mean, Gemini just came out with a Mac app.
AI Agents: Mirage Or Real Revolution? — With Dmitry Shevelenko
- ▶ 1:09 Dmitry Shevelenko Uh, they actually are really excited about what we're doing with personal computer and how it uses Mac minis.
- ▶ 29:54 Alex Kantrowitz I guess I see now why people are working on the Mac Mini, uh, because, you know, and, and this is enabled for me right now as we speak, that perplexity has all this access to, like, 9 times in the scene
Did Apple Get AI Spending Right?, Microsoft & OpenAI’s New Reality, Where’s Stargate?
- ▶ 10:42 M.G. Siegler Various software players, Adobe and everyone else didn't want to make software for the Mac and for other earlier versions of Apple products, and so Apple decided, like, that they needed to ultimately be in charge of that.
- ▶ 17:23 M.G. Siegler Um, I do think that there's a real scenario in which the iPhone ends up being the key device for AI and at the very least max, uh, fall back to, you know, Mac computers, um, with obviously the, the Mac mini and the, and the Mac studio, it…
- ▶ 17:23 M.G. Siegler Um, I do think that there's a real scenario in which the iPhone ends up being the key device for AI and at the very least max, uh, fall back to, you know, Mac computers, um, with obviously the, the Mac mini and the, and the Mac studio, it…
- ▶ 17:23 M.G. Siegler Um, I do think that there's a real scenario in which the iPhone ends up being the key device for AI and at the very least max, uh, fall back to, you know, Mac computers, um, with obviously the, the Mac mini and the, and the Mac studio, it…
OpenAI’s User Growth Miss, Musk vs. Altman In Court, Prediction Market Ban
- ▶ 48:58 Alex Kantrowitz And now you're selling your Mac minis. 2 times in the scene
Tim Cook Steps Down. And Who is John Ternus? — With Joanna Stern
- ▶ 2:48 Alex Kantrowitz You thank me for the ways Mac has changed.
- ▶ 6:35 Joanna Stern Like, again, Macs are the best laptops you can use, and yes, it helped sell more laptops.
More OpenAI C-Suite Drama, Is Siri Seriously Broken?, Meta’s Elusive Next Hit
- ▶ 22:51 M.G. Siegler Like they're all part of the sort of the same, uh, at least Mac app payload right now.
OpenAI President Greg Brockman: AI Self-Improvement, The Superapp Bet, Path To AGI, Scaling Compute
- ▶ 42:31 Alex Kantrowitz Which is, and maybe it's the broader tech community where, where people started to trust it in ways that you suggested, giving the, an AI bot access to their, their desktop or getting a Mac mini and giving it access to like their mail and…
OpenAI’s Superapp Is Coming, Jensen on Jobs, Bezos’s $100 Billion Automation Fund
- ▶ 17:37 Ranjan Roy I'm curious whether the three letter CEO will remain that long, but moving on from that complete speculation, um, I, I found like it's been odd because I don't know if you, did you see Gemini is now launching a Mac app?
Are We Screwed If AI Works? — With Andrew Ross Sorkin
- ▶ 27:39 Alex Kantrowitz And on the Mac mini and the models become so efficient or purpose built that you don't need the data centers.
AI Backlash Intensifies, Nvidia GTC Preview, Meta’s Embarrassing Delay
- ▶ 26:35 Alex Kantrowitz Are you going to go and take your, is the government going to go grab your Mac mini out of your office where you've downloaded a version of deep seek and be like, all right, right to the pokey.
- ▶ 46:28 Ranjan Roy And again, even if that person is on the beach and they brought their Mac mini with them and are powering it with the USB, USB battery and just run in some claws, that's, that's their choice.
AI’s Unpopularity + Competing With ChatGPT — With Olivia Moore
- ▶ 28:44 Alex Kantrowitz And people are running out, and they are, um, buying Mac minis and running it there and having it do all this stuff on the internet for them.
AI Revenue Explodes, Dario’s Memo, McDonalds’ CEO’s Baby Burger Bite
- ▶ 20:55 Alex Kantrowitz I mean, Apple had some new Macs this week.
- ▶ 21:13 Alex Kantrowitz Meanwhile, Mac minis are sold out because everyone's buying them to run open claw. 7 times in the scene
- ▶ 21:17 Alex Kantrowitz Uh, Mac studios have a six week backlog.
Google’s AI Comeback, Enterprise Agents, The Real Path to AI ROI — W/ Promevo CEO Karthik Kripapuri
- ▶ 23:17 Alex Kantrowitz And we're kind of coming at this moment where, um, where we have the surge of people building their own someone, uh, you know, Mac minis and setting them loose in the world.
The Moltbook Uprising, NVIDIA’s OpenAI Pullback, Apple’s Conundrum
- ▶ 8:32 M.G. Siegler And then of course the big fear of like, okay, well, let's just say like, yeah, everyone just pulls the plug on, on their Mac minis or whatever that are running these cloud bots.