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Apple may be partnering with LG for new smart home accessories, Microsoft’s Surface Laptop Ultra reveal with “MagSafe” USB-C port, Muse AI in real use cases, OpenAI may be going too far with its models, and Stephen finally tries Tailscale.

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• Amazon's New Kindle Lineup for 2026 | About Amazon
• Amazon Kindle Bundle with Remote
• Apple’s new ‘second-party’ accessories for Home are bigger than we thought, per leak
• X post from pdfu: First look at home accessories Apple co-developed with LG
• Schlage Sense Pro Smart Lock Showdown - YouTube
• Apple TV 4K Rumored to Support Four HomePods for Surround Sound - MacRumors
• Microsoft finally confirms Surface Laptop Ultra pricing | Windows Central
• Microsoft is giving Copilot more control over Windows and your files | The Verge
• Jason on Action News- 6abc Philadelphia
• The Biggest Launch Since ChatGPT (Muse) - Cleo Abram
• AI Just Crossed the Terrifying Line - Now What? - YouTube
• OpenAI launches visual ads that appear alongside image generation results | TechCrunch
• OpenAI is adding text watermarking in ChatGPT and Codex | The Verge
• ChatGPT Gets GPT-6 and New Intelligent UI With Visual Answers - MacRumors
• OpenAI releases progress on more than 300 math research problems - The Washington Post
• Fired OpenAI Researchers Ask Company to Preserve Visibility Into AI Reasoning - WSJ
• Google's SynthID AI Detector is Now Available to Everyone - MacRumors
• SynthID Detector
• Apple Intelligence Comes With a Very Annoying Feature. How to Turn It Off | Inc.
• Paramount and Warner Bros. Discovery complete $110 billion media megamerger | The Verge
• Emmys will move from broadcast TV to Prime Video in 2027 | TechCrunch
• Disney Plus will stream Super Bowl LXI | The Verge
• Today Marks the 15th Anniversary of Steve Jobs' Death - MacRumors
• The Weirdest Part of Remembering Steve Jobs

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I could not believe my ears.

• All-In Podcast: Trump's Super Intelligence Summit, AI Safety Accord, GDP

Apple's smart home hub may arrive October 13 with an iMac G4-inspired design, tech leaders outline AI self-policing under new accords, OpenAI introduces its new Dots AI agents, plus an mini app-recommendation lightning round!

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• Swap Audio Track on Video Shortcut
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• The AI Industry Has a Jurassic Park Problem - Inc.
• Meta's Strategy to Get You to Use Muse Is to Lie About Your Friends - Inc.
• Get in losers, we're ditching Raycast - YouTube
• You Can 'Get Ready' for iPhone Duo Pre-Orders on October 12 - MacRumors
• Apple's HomePad smart home hub launching on Oct 13 with iMac G4 design – Bloomberg - 9to5Mac
• Ron Johnson on Letting the Best Ideas Win - Creative Effort - Apple Podcasts
• YouTuber Says Muse Gave His Address to a Marketplace Buyer - Business Insider
• Mark Zuckerberg on Muse, Audio-Only Glasses and Killer AI - YouTube
• Here’s how tech leaders will self-police AI safety under Trump’s deal | The Verge
• OpenAI Pauses Training Its Most Powerful Models After Rogue Agents Target Government | WIRED
• The Ezra Klein Show: Bill Gates - The New York Times
• DevDay 2026 Recap | OpenAI
• Introducing dots | OpenAI
• Introducing Gemini 4 Argon
• Paramount Co-CEO
• DoorDash launches an AI agent you can text to order food | TechCrunch
• Halide 3.2: The App for Aperture
• Amazon’s delivery driver smart glasses will reportedly take photos ‘almost constantly’ | The Verge
• Daring Fireball: Anthropic's IPO Prospectus Is a Fucking Doozy
• Shortcuts Menu — Your Shortcuts in the Mac menu bar
• ‎Hidden Bar App - App Store
• ‎Hand Mirror App - App Store
• Noodlesoft – Simply Useful Software
• ‎Dropzone 4 App - App Store
• Hyperkey
• Tailscale | Secure Connectivity for AI, IoT and Multi-Cloud
• Buy the Alfred Powerpack
• Final Thoughts on Apple Watch Series 12 Battery Life
• Sound Devices USBPre 2 USB-B Audio Interface USBPRE 2 B&H Photo

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Stephen had a weird experience at the Apple Store, and has final thoughts on its battery.

We review both the M6 and M5 Pro Mac mini along with our week review of iPhone 18 Pro, Jason discovers Meta's Muse AI was reading his texts without permission, Siri AI with apps is a mixed bag, and more.

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Links from the show

• Stephen's Woz Shirt - Threads
• M6 Mac mini has my Mac Studio sweating - YouTube
• Jason's M5 Pro Mac mini Review
• The M5 Ultra Mac Studio tears through our benchmark tests | The Verge
• Stephen's iPhone 18 Pro Review - YouTube
• iPhone 18 Pro Camera Review: Dunton, Colorado — Austin Mann
• AT&T seemingly has no plans to support Apple’s new iPhone Handoff feature - 9to5Mac
• The Most Hidden iOS 27 Features - YouTube
• Apple Watch Series 12 Ceramic - YouTube
• Meta’s New Muse AI Agent Read My Private Messages. I Never Asked It To - Inc.
• Meta Threads post from Jason Aten
• Meta Keeps Apologizing for Muse. Its Explanations Miss the Point Entirely - Inc.
• Meta’s Muse is creepy, but maybe not for the reasons you think | The Verge
• Daring Fireball: Meta’s New Muse AI Agent Read Jason Aten's Messages Database
• Meta Connect 2026: The 7 biggest announcements | The Verge
• OpenAI launches GPT-6 Sol and Luna, boasting lower cost and fewer mistakes | TechCrunch
• Anthropic launches Claude Opus 5.5 with stricter safeguards for cybersecurity | The Verge
• Daring Fireball: The iPhone 4 ‘Antennagate’ Press Conference Q&A — Finally
• Premium Video - Apple Podcasts for Creators
• Made On YouTube | Innovation for the YouTube Era
• New features for the YouTube Era: Made on YouTube 2026 - YouTube Community
• Disney+ and Hulu Raise Prices Again, Ad-Free Plans Now $21.49 - MacRumors
• 18 Apps that "Work" with Siri AI Right Now - YouTube
• What’s Really Happening with Siri AI and Apps - Apple Podcasts
• Mastodon post from Ryan Ashcraft
• Siri AI Coming to HomePod - MacRumors

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Stephen’s can’t decide between ceramic and Ultra.

Special guest Ryan Wesley, maker and founder of Foodnoms the excellent food tracking app, explains what’s really happening when you ask Siri AI to interact with third party apps on your devices. He explains the limitations, the bugs, and what the ideal integration could look like.

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• Foodnoms | Simple Food and Nutrition Tracker App
• 18 Apps that "Work" with Siri AI Right Now - YouTube
• Mercury Weather App - App Store
• Flighty – Live Flight Tracker App - App Store
• Lumy App - App Store

iOS 27 and Siri AI are out (sorry EU) and there’s a big asterisk on HomeKit cameras, plus iPhone 18 Pro reviews, Apple Watch Series 12, Meta launches insane subscriptions, and is AI gonna kill us all or what? 

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• iPhone Duo Battery Percentage
• New Apple CEO John Ternus attending Emmy Awards (and sporting iPhone Duo) - 9to5Mac
• Widow’s Bay sweeps 78th Primetime Emmy Awards as Apple TV scores 9 more wins - 9to5Mac
• HBO boss reacts to Apple TV winning more Emmy awards - 9to5Mac
• John Ternus Taking a Selfie
• 150+ NEW iOS 27 Features (no Siri AI) - YouTube
• Expect to pay up to $60 to use Apple's home security AI summaries - AppleInsider
• 50 Ways to Use Siri AI Right Now
• iPhone 18 Pro: A Photographer's Review - YouTube
• iPhone 18 Pro Camera Review: Dunton, Colorado — Austin Mann
• iPhone 18 Pro review: it's all about the manual controls - YouTube
• iPhone 18 Pro Max Review - Apple's Hyping The Wrong Thing
• Apple Reference Image: A New Approach for Verified Photography - Apple Security Research
• Apple Watch Series 12 and Ultra 4 review: More personal than ever before - 9to5Mac
• Everything New in iOS 27.2 Beta 1 - MacRumors
• Dario Amodei — We Must Pace the Frontier
• AI Leaders Are Calling for a Slowdown. Trump’s Team Says It’s on Them | WIRED
• AI Companies Love to Tell Us How Dangerous Their Products Are. This Time, They Mean It | Inc.com
• Your AI apocalypse questions, answered - The Vergecast - Apple Podcasts
• How AI CEOs sound then VS now - YouTube
• Humanoid robot crashes into a wall during a sprint test at the 'Robot Olympics' in Beijing - YouTube
• Meta’s new One subscriptions put a price on social media and AI | The Verge
• Apple might make servers again to cash in on the AI rush | The Verge

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