Hannah Fry tests what AI agents can really do, the founding story of Starbucks on Acquired, the rise of clip farms, massive new data center debacle, and the Earth like no one has seen.

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Acquired: Starbucks with Howard Schultz
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/acquired/id1050462261?i=1000657758174

The Clippening — The Verge
https://www.theverge.com/report/920005/social-media-clipping-podcasts-clavicular-marketing-mrbeast

Claude and Grok as Roommates — 512 Pixels
https://512pixels.net/2026/05/claude-and-grok-roommates/

Hovercraft — Sandwich Vision
https://sandwich.vision/hovercraft

Earth GIF from Artemis II — Hank Green
https://youtu.be/OdO_g1S_MBU?si=9-QyFTfIZN_2eGjC

John Oliver tackles AI chatbots, Nilay Patel on the AI backlash, swirling Vision Pro and MagSafe rumors, a fun wallpaper shortcut, and my take on actually useful AI.

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• AI Chatbots — Last Week Tonight with John Oliver
• Decoder with Nilay Patel — Apple Podcasts
• The people do not yearn for automation — The Verge
• Apple Reportedly Gives Up on Vision Pro After M5 Refresh — MacRumors
• Apple Questioning Whether to Drop MagSafe from iPhone — MacRumors
• Jon Prosser: "Vision Pro ain't dead fam"
• Basic Gradient Wallpaper Shortcut
• Patel: Software Brain — Daring Fireball
• 15 Useful Ways I Use AI Every Day

Joanna Stern launched her "New Things," a look inside Hans Zimmer's Remote Control Studios, Jason's great commentary on Tim Cook, and on retiring from content creation (not me).

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Why I Quit The Wall Street Journal To Start This YouTube Channel
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qd2Dyr0m3BI

Tim Cook Steps Down. And Who is John Ternus? — With Joanna Stern
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uXOLfijQzQc

Inside Hans Zimmer's Remote Control Studios — Twenty Thousand Hertz
https://www.20k.org/episodes/hans-zimmers-remote-control

Community Letter from Tim - Apple

https://www.apple.com/community-letter-from-tim/

Tim Cook’s Farewell Letter Just Revealed His Most Important Leadership Habit

https://apple.news/ADYipKBtITUKNC-wuMSx6jw

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I'm Retiring… Gerald Undone 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XBqNa6Xa3Ns

What's the story on Mythos AI from Anthropic, a fascinating AT&T history lesson, a must-read Sam Altman profile, and the best app I’m using to save everything.

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• Read: Sam Altman May Control Our Future—Can He Be Trusted? — The New Yorker
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• Deep: Reconcilable Differences #284: Burger Boy
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