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Huge week of Apple releases including the touch-enabled PROLED XDR Macbook Pro, iPad mini, we review iPhone Duo, Anthropic’s IPO filing warns humanity, and we both go hands-on with Claude Duet.

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• Stephen’s iPhone Duo Playlist - YouTube
• You're Absolutely Right Claude Shirt | Techmerch
• Apple gives iPad mini its biggest update ever - Apple
• Apple just announced its best creator studio feature yet - Inc.
• Macbook PROLED XDR Impressions: They Said They Wouldn't! - YouTube
• New MacBook Pro with PROLED XDR Display: The first-ever Mac with Touch - YouTube
• The NEW MacBook Pro - First Impressions - YouTube
• Apple just announced a MacBook Pro with a delightful touch of nostalgia - Inc. (30:38)
• X Profile of John Ternus
• Wired Interview with Ternus on Touchscreen MacBook Pro (42:32)
• Ternus addresses Apple breaking touchscreen Mac taboo: 'Who knew?’ - 9to5Mac
• Apps by Stephen Robles
• Some iPhone Duo displays are cracking, seemingly all in the same way - 9to5Mac
• iPhone Duo Apps · beardfm
• Anthropic's founders are ready for an IPO but not ready to give up control - Inc. (01:17:10)
• Anthropic, PBC - S-1 (Q2)
• Machine Gods : NPR
• Microsoft offers buyouts to 60,000 employees | The Verge
• Amazon Echo Show 16 hands-on: price, release date, and new features | The Verge
• Amazon’s new Echo Studio speaker has a camera | The Verge
• Introducing Claude Duet | Claude by Anthropic
•  Apple Store Photo 1
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Apple teases its “Pro and Tell” event with rumored touchscreen MacBook Pro, iPad mini, and more, reviews of the iPhone Duo are out with mixed reception, and Walmart is embracing AI agent shopping, unlike Amazon.

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• Walmart’s Latest Plan to Beat Amazon Is to Let Your AI Agent Shop for You (59:06)
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• Apple teases MacBook Pro event next week | The Verge
• iPhone Duo Review: The Good, The Bad, and The Buggy - YouTube
• iPhone Duo Review: First Generation Fun! - YouTube
• iPhone Duo queues form days before the doors open
• iPhone Duo review (emotional) - YouTube
• Daring Fireball: The iPhone Duo
• iPhone Duo Review - Apple's First Foldable Is FINALLY Here. Does It Deliver? - YouTube
• iPhone Duo review: The future is foldable - 9to5Mac
• iPhone Duo will add Reachability feature ‘later this year’ - 9to5Mac
• iPhone Duo for Creative Pros — Austin Mann
• Walmart is inviting AI agents to shop for you | The Verge
• The Four Horsemen: Amazon/Apple/Facebook & Google - YouTube
• Introducing Claude Duet - YouTube
• Meta's Muse hits 10M US downloads in 40 days, a milestone reached by only 11 other apps | TechCrunch
• Meta ordered to pay $25 billion in penalties over the Cambridge Analytica scandal | The Verge

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Jennifer Pattison Tuohy was in-person at Apple’s Welcome Home event and got hands-on time with HomeView. We get into the details about using the device, plus Apple Home Collection, and why HomeView vs iPad for the smart home.

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Apple made its foray back in the smart home with the new HomeView device, Apple TV 4K, HomePod mini 2, and Home Collection devices. We debate who will benefit from the HomeView, have a theory about Siri AI and Apple TV, plus try to make sure we all understand Claude isn’t alive.

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• Stephen's Apple Home Event Recap Video
• Anthropic Just Banned Being Cruel to Claude – The Reason Should Concern Us All - Inc. (01:12:26)
• McSnake App - App Store
• Welcome Apple HomeView: Designed for life at home - YouTube
• Apple HomeView - Apple
• Apple Event: HomePod surround, HomeView, and Apple TV - YouTube
• All features of Apple's new HomeView - YouTube
• Third-party HomeView apps? Think CarPlay – Six Colors
• Apple TV 4K - Apple
• Siri Remote - Apple
• Apple announces the next generation of HomePod mini - Apple
• Will the Full-Sized HomePod Get Siri AI? Apple's Website Offers a Clue - MacRumors
• Latest HomePods can output Mac system audio - AppleInsider
• Introducing Apple Home Collection, a new lineup of smart home accessories - Apple
• LG Floodlight Cam - Apple
• Here’s how much iPhone Duo costs to repair out-of-warranty - 9to5Mac
• 2026 Usage Policy update – Anthropic
• X post from OpenAI Newsroom
• Meta has some Wonder Full new AI models | The Verge
• Google finally releases Gemini 4 Argon | The Verge
• YouTube sticks new labels on AI-generated songs | The Verge
• It Turns Out the Only Thing People Like Less Than AI Is Paying for Adobe Creative Cloud - Inc. (01:27:29)
• GitHub - boykopovar/AnyPS5: Tool for automatic PS5 executables
• Netflix is laying off around 1,000 employees | The Verge
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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
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• 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
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• 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
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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.
• Meta's Strategy to Get You to Use Muse Is to Lie About Your Friends - Inc. (21:31)
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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
• Ron Johnson on Letting the Best Ideas Win - Creative Effort - Apple Podcasts (15:33)
• 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
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• Introducing dots | OpenAI
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• Paramount Co-CEO
• DoorDash launches an AI agent you can text to order food | TechCrunch
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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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• Stephen's Woz Shirt - Threads
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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
• 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 (01:14:26)
• Mastodon post from Ryan Ashcraft
• 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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• 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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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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• Stephen's iPhone Duo Event Recap
• Tim Cook's Brief Appearance at the iPhone Duo Event Was Apple Stagecraft at Its Best
• 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
• TikTok post from Apple
• X post from Adam Hlaváč
• 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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