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• Explore new ways to plan and book travel with AI in Search
• Cloudflare CEO explains exactly what caused global outage | Mashable
• Tim Cook could step down as Apple CEO ‘as soon as next year’ - 9to5Mac
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• ESPN, ABC, and other Disney channels go dark on YouTube TV | The Verge
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• Altman touts trillion-dollar AI vision as OpenAI restructures to chase scale | Reuters
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• OpenAI has an AGI problem — and Microsoft just made it worse | The Verge
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• Apple confirms it pulled controversial dating apps Tea and TeaOnHer from the App Store | TechCrunch
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• Apple's iPhone Air Experiment Fails as Supply Chain Cuts Production by 80% - MacRumors
• Tyler Stalman's iPhone Air Camera Review
• iOS 26.1 beta 4 adds new setting to tone down Liquid Glass transparency - 9to5Mac
• An AWS Outage Took Down Snapchat, Fortnite, and ChatGPT, and Showed How Fragile Everything Really Is
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Apple’s new M5 iPad Pro, MacBook Pro, and Vision Pro updates, NBA in Apple Immersive, Spotify and Instagram parental tools, Walmart’s ChatGPT shopping partnership, ChatGPT may allow “erotica,” and why you shouldn’t your Smart TV to the internet.

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• With the M5 MacBook Pro, Apple Is Giving the EU Exactly What It Wants—and People Are Mad
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• Spectrum brings NBA games in Apple Immersive to Apple Vision Pro - Apple
• Tigers-Red Sox broadcast on Apple TV+ to use iPhone for live action
• Apple Quietly Just Put Every Streaming Service on Notice
• Eddy Cue Explains Why Apple TV+ is Now Apple TV - MacRumors
• Spotify managed accounts are coming to protect parents from kids
• Apple’s Head of ChatGPT-Like AI Search Effort to Leave for Meta - Bloomberg
• Instagram says it's making the app more 'PG-13' for teens 
• Spotify managed accounts are coming to protect parents from kids
• Spotify partners with Netflix for video podcast distribution deal | TechCrunch
• Walmart Partners With OpenAI to Offer Shopping on ChatGPT - Bloomberg
• Bringing new Veo 3.1 updates into Flow to edit AI video
• These are the Office icons Microsoft rejected | The Verge
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• OpenAI will let developers build apps that work inside ChatGPT | The Verge
• OpenAI Sneezes, and Software Firms Catch a Cold | WIRED
• OpenAI ramps up developer push with more powerful models in its API  | TechCrunch
• Google Pixel 10 Pro Fold review: finally, a more durable foldable | The Verge
• Google Pixel Pro Fold Review: Not Compatible! - YouTube
• Pixel Watch 4 Review: It's a Beast! - YouTube
• Give me a single reason why Sora2 should exist. - YouTube
• SORA: the all Ai TikTok Clone. will slop end creativity? - YouTube
• AI Slop Is Destroying The Internet - YouTube
• OpenAI and Jony Ive’s secret device won’t be ‘your weird AI girlfriend’ | The Verge
• reMarkable Paper Pro | reMarkable

• (00:00) - Intro

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• Amazon’s 2025 hardware event: the 8 biggest announcements | The Verge
• This is Gemini for Home and the redesigned Home app
• The new Google Home Speaker is built for Gemini | The Verge
• The New iPhone 17 Selfie Cam Is Totally Unnecessary and the Perfect Example of Apple at Its Very Best
• Becca Farsace iPhone 17 Pro Camera Review
• iPhone 17 Pro Camera Review: Rule of Three
• Instagram tests opening right onto Reels | The Verge
• Adam Mosseri’s ‘we’re totally not spying on you’ video is raising a lot of questions | The Verge
• Sora launches on App Store for iPhone video creation from ChatGPT maker - 9to5Mac
• Sora Soars
• You Need to Be Bored. Here's Why. - YouTube
• Anthropic releases Claude Sonnet 4.5 in latest bid for AI agents and coding supremacy | The Verge
• Microsoft Promotes Sales Chief Althoff to Help Free Up Nadella - Bloomberg
• Leaked unboxing video reveals unannounced M5 iPad Pro in full - 9to5Mac
• Adobe Premiere for iPhone now available – free with catches - 9to5Mac

We’re hands-on with iPhone Air, its incredible design, but has drawbacks like speaker, cameras, and battery life. Plus, iPhone 17 Pro Max and AirPods Pro 3 reviews, Disney+ price hike, Instagram hits 3 billion users, and the TikTok deal may finally be going through.

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• After a Week of Controversy, Disney Just Announced a Price Increase on Its Streaming Services
• Trump expected to sign a TikTok deal Thursday
• Instagram Hits 3 Billion Users With Focus on Video, Messaging - Bloomberg
• Apple cancels release of new Apple TV+ show previously set to air this Friday - 9to5Mac
• Jessica Chastain says she and Apple are ‘not aligned’ on decision to halt The Savant | The Verge
• Apple Has a Blunt Message for Users: The DMA Is Making Your iPhone Worse

• (00:00) - Introduction