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Joanna Stern

Founder & CEO, New Things · 2 appearances on the record.

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An award-winning journalist, Stern spent 12 years as a personal technology columnist and video host for The Wall Street Journal, reviewing consumer electronics and emerging technology. She launched her independent tech media company New Things in 2026 and is the author of I Am Not a Robot.

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Everything Joanna Stern said on Big Technology that made the record, most notable first. Filter by type, assessment or year in the ledger →

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Stern: AI Mastered My Reporting Assistant's Tasks in Six Months
“I had hired a reporting assistant at the beginning of doing this book, and then six months later, AI could do pretty much all the tasks of the reporting assistant.”
Joanna Stern May 13, 2026 ▶ 38:24 The Allure of AI Love + Does Anyone Want AI Wearables? — With Joanna Stern
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Stern: John Ternus's hardware focus will be great for Apple
“Now it kind of flips back. It goes back to someone who's very interested in the hardware, the design, the actual products. Which, you know, can only, I think, be great for Apple as the company that makes the best tech out there.”
Joanna Stern Apr 21, 2026 ▶ 1:56 Tim Cook Steps Down. And Who is John Ternus? — With Joanna Stern
Insight
Stern: Smartphones Will Never Go Away Despite AI Wearables
“The phone is never going away, just like laptops didn't go away when the phones came, and all of our other technology built on each other, right?”
Joanna Stern May 13, 2026 ▶ 4:03 The Allure of AI Love + Does Anyone Want AI Wearables? — With Joanna Stern
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Stern: People Will Talk to AI More Than Their Own Families
“I'm sure we're going to start seeing that people are talking to these bots far more than actual human colleagues and far more than their families and their significant others at some point.”
Joanna Stern May 13, 2026 ▶ 29:14 The Allure of AI Love + Does Anyone Want AI Wearables? — With Joanna Stern
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Stern: Humans Will Always Take the Lead in Medical Diagnostics
“My feeling is like, no, there's always going to be this human, and we can say in the loop, but also taking the lead.”
Joanna Stern May 13, 2026 ▶ 34:13 The Allure of AI Love + Does Anyone Want AI Wearables? — With Joanna Stern
Opinion
Stern: Apple under Tim Cook became an operations company driven by deputies
“Since Cook took over is really an operations company, right? That's how he steered the company post jobs, and he left all of the other hardware and the software stuff to his deputies, right?”
Joanna Stern Apr 21, 2026 ▶ 1:31 Tim Cook Steps Down. And Who is John Ternus? — With Joanna Stern
Opinion
Stern: Tim Cook's Apple Silicon Bet Fundamentally Changed Computing
“I don't think enough credit goes to the investment in Silicon and, you know, whatever M chip you have in your laptop right now was a massive shift. I mean, it's like what they're now able to do in laptops and computing because they own that full stack. That's …”
Joanna Stern Apr 21, 2026 ▶ 4:17 Tim Cook Steps Down. And Who is John Ternus? — With Joanna Stern
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Stern: Apple's incremental product strategy succeeded by driving record iPhone sales
“Every couple years sell more iPhones than they've sold in years past. This strategy worked.”
Joanna Stern Apr 21, 2026 ▶ 5:59 Tim Cook Steps Down. And Who is John Ternus? — With Joanna Stern
Opinion
Stern: Humane AI Pin Was Single-Purpose and Did Nothing
“That was a single purpose device meant to be an AI pin, right? Didn't do much else. It honestly did nothing.”
Joanna Stern May 13, 2026 ▶ 2:33 The Allure of AI Love + Does Anyone Want AI Wearables? — With Joanna Stern
Insight
Stern: Hands-Free Repair Is the Ideal Smart Glasses Use Case
“When you're fixing a garage door, you don't want to hold your phone in front of you. So I was asking the metaglasses, How do I, what's wrong with the garage door? Now, Meta was completely wrong about what was wrong with the garage door. But that instance, it's…”
Joanna Stern May 13, 2026 ▶ 11:36 The Allure of AI Love + Does Anyone Want AI Wearables? — With Joanna Stern
Insight
Stern: The 'Hamster Test' Is Essential for Evaluating Image Models
“Now, my current test for all these models, image models, is counting hamsters, and it has gotten better. It still may make the mistake from time to time, but if you're not doing the hamster test, you're not really testing models.”
Joanna Stern May 13, 2026 ▶ 13:04 The Allure of AI Love + Does Anyone Want AI Wearables? — With Joanna Stern
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Stern: Apple employees immediately report journalist LinkedIn outreach to PR
“As a reporter, I don't know if you've ever had this, but like sometimes I'll reach out, you know, I'll hear, I'll reach out to Apple employees via LinkedIn and immediately I get a phone call from Apple PR because employees really can take it extremely seriousl…”
Joanna Stern Apr 21, 2026 ▶ 9:40 Tim Cook Steps Down. And Who is John Ternus? — With Joanna Stern
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Stern: Apple's Foldable Will Be Expensive and Need Multiple Iterations
“Like, yeah, I think that's going to be a big product, but I think similar to a Vision Pro, it's going to be probably priced out of, you know, the mainstream and take a few iterations to get pretty good.”
Joanna Stern Apr 21, 2026 ▶ 12:38 Tim Cook Steps Down. And Who is John Ternus? — With Joanna Stern
Opinion
Stern: Cook's legacy is the iPhone ecosystem moat and operational execution
“There's like two main things that I think I'd come up with. One, building around the iPhone. Taking that moat and just building so much around it. AirPods, Apple Watch, Just extending that ecosystem to so many things. And then I think the operations and becomi…”
Joanna Stern Apr 21, 2026 ▶ 13:10 Tim Cook Steps Down. And Who is John Ternus? — With Joanna Stern
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Stern: Laundry-Folding Robots Are Extremely Slow and Only Fold T-Shirts
“It's really slow at folding my laundry, like really, really slow. It actually couldn't fold anything on your body right now. It could only fold t-shirts.”
Joanna Stern May 13, 2026 ▶ 39:26 The Allure of AI Love + Does Anyone Want AI Wearables? — With Joanna Stern

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Appearances (2)

EpisodeDateSpeaking time
The Allure of AI Love + Does Anyone Want AI Wearables? — With Joanna Stern May 13, 2026 25m
Tim Cook Steps Down. And Who is John Ternus? — With Joanna Stern Apr 21, 2026 7m
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