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• 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
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• 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
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• Apple Intelligence Comes With a Very Annoying Feature. How to Turn It Off | Inc.
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• Emmys will move from broadcast TV to Prime Video in 2027 | TechCrunch
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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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• The AI Industry Has a Jurassic Park Problem - Inc.
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• 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
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• 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
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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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• 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. (45:01)
• 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
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• 18 Apps that "Work" with Siri AI Right Now - YouTube
• What’s Really Happening with Siri AI and Apps - Apple Podcasts (01:14:26)
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• Siri AI Coming to HomePod - MacRumors

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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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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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• HBO boss reacts to Apple TV winning more Emmy awards - 9to5Mac
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• iPhone 18 Pro: A Photographer's Review - YouTube
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• 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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Apple officially announced its first foldable iPhone, creating all new paradigms of interaction with iOS, Apple Watch’s new Audio Intelligence feature might be problematic in the real world, iPhone 18 Pro has variable aperture, and LG TVs are spying on you.

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• I Said Apple Would Never Ship a Foldable. Then I Saw the iPhone Duo
• Jason Was Right About AI on Apple Watch
• Apple unveils iPhone Duo - Apple
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• iPhone Duo - First Look & Hands-On! - YouTube
• iPhone Duo Hands-On: Apple Finally Made a Foldable - YouTube
• iPhone Duo First Look: The $2,000 Foldable iPhone! - YouTube
• Apple Event September 9 2026: Introducing iPhone Duo and more - YouTube
• iPhone Duo Folio with Kickstand - Apple
• Introducing Apple Watch Series 12, with the all-new Health Sensing System - Apple
• About Audio Intelligence features on Apple Watch Series 12 and Apple Watch Ultra 4 - Apple Support
• Audio Intelligence Privacy Overview, September 2026 (PDF) - Apple
• Apple Adds AppleCare One Family Plan for Up to Six People - MacRumors
• AppleCare - Apple
• Apple debuts iPhone 18 Pro and iPhone 18 Pro Max - Apple
• iPhone 18 Pro hands-on - YouTube
• Apple introduces AirPods 5 with best-in-class open-ear Active Noise Cancellation - Apple
• Apple Plans to Squeeze More Revenue From the App Store, Report Says - MacRumors
• OpenAI claims it solved elusive math problem with a $1 million prize - The Washington Post
• Meta debuts its Muse AI agent. Will consumers trust it? | TechCrunch
• LG TVs caught spying even when offline or on standby | The Verge
• 216,000,000 Spy TVs | The LG Smart TV Problem - YouTube

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Apple's new CEO John Ternus joins X, we preview what to expect at iPhone 18 event, Anker debuts MindBase AI smart home video with Matter 1.5, Trump Admin sides with OpenAI vs NYT, and beware scam apps.

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• Anthropic upgrades Claude with new Fable 5.1 model, details here - 9to5Mac
• Trump Administration Sides With OpenAI in New York Times Copyright Lawsuit | WIRED
• Researchers fear safety disaster ahead of OpenAI’s Astra release | The Verge
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Apple teases their next event, “Surprise and shine” where we’ll likely see iPhone 18 Pro and foldable iPhone Ultra, plus upgraded Mac Studio and M6 Mac mini released. Meta accepts sweeping teen restrictions in major lawsuit settlement, the OpenAI breach is scarier than we thought, and we debate what makes an app “whimsical.”

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• Apple Won't Allow These Ad Categories in the Maps App - MacRumors
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• Meta agrees to heavy restrictions on teen users in major lawsuit settlement | The Verge
• Our Agreement With Bipartisan Attorneys General: Calling on TikTok and YouTube to Join Us in Supporting Teens
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• OpenAI releases its official report on the Hugging Face breach | TechCrunch
• A turbulent AI era and critical choices to make - Gates Notes
• Netflix reportedly considers opening its app to other streamers | The Verge
• "Sandra Bullock" - SmartLess (01:09:00)
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• Mac Power Users #863: 20 Years of Things with Werner Jainek - Relay (01:14:40)

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Apple's camera-equipped AirPods are seen in leaked footage, are they a bad idea? Anthropic reveals how Claude watermarks text (it’s not great), Robin Williams' children return to Instagram to fight AI Slop, the college tech load out, and Jason revives Aperture.

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• Apple's Camera-Equipped AirPods Confirmed: See Them in Action - MacRumors
• Camera-equipped AirPods reportedly won’t launch in 2026, despite demo video leak - 9to5Mac
• Apple Accidentally Leaked More Than 10 New Products in macOS Update - MacRumors
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• Daring Fireball: Anthropic’s ‘Watermark’ Text Adulteration in Claude Is a Perversion of Writing
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• OpenAI lays out new security changes after its AI hacked Hugging Face | The Verge
• Apple announces changes for apps in the European Union - Apple
• Disney’s ABC Sues FCC Over Challenge to Its Broadcast Licenses - WSJ
• Comcast is putting motion sensing into millions of homes — using its existing Wi-Fi routers | The Verge
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Google unveils the Pixel 11 lineup and takes on Wispr Flow dictation and computational photography, Zuck writes an AI manifesto about wanting to be with the cool kids, Claude explains how it plans to label AI-generated text, and Spotify tries to end podcasting again.

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• Spotify threatens industry with ad-skipping tool
• Spotify will label 'AI Persona' profiles and exclude their music from recommendations | TechCrunch
• OpenAI puts the brakes on a new model because it’s supposedly too powerful | The Verge
• YouTube now requires creators to have twice as many watch hours to start earning money | TechCrunch
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