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“I would not be surprised if under Ternus, they just lean into being a hardware company and maybe scale back on some of these other bets, these software projects, Apple TV, the sort of last year but less profitable parts of their business, I would not be surprised if they really double down on being the hardware company and continuing to make the best hardware that all, you know, all the other software can run on.”

“They signed a three year lease for a store. They put a $100,000 in a bank account, and they handed a debit card to Luna, which is powered by Claude Sonnet 4.6, and just told it, hey. Turn a profit. So there are a few things that have gone awry, Kevin. One of them, they made a bunch of strange inventory choices, including ordering a thousand toilet seat covers for the employee bathroom, then listed them as merchandise.”

“This tool, which is called model capability initiative, will run on work related apps and websites on US based employees' computers and will also take occasional snapshots of the content on employees' screens. This is part of a broad initiative to build AI agents that can perform work tasks autonomously, the company told staffers in internal memos seen by Reuters.”

“At the same time, like, every day now, I use AI apps that just do things for me on my phone that seem clearly like things Siri should be able to do. Right? Because Siri is integrated at that operating system level. It already has the access that it needs, and I wind up having to do all these workarounds just to do these things that are now possible through the state of the art. So there is a huge missed opportunity there.”

“Tim Cook is going to step into a new role as executive chairman. He's not leaving entirely. But John Ternus, Apple's senior vice president of hardware engineering and a longtime Apple guy, will become the next CEO.”

“I just noticed that various players in the AI space, some of whom are, opposed to each other in various ways, seem to all be coming around to UBI at the same time. So Elon Musk did a post about this on x saying he endorsed some form of UBI. He called it universal high income.”

“We need to tax AI and then start distributing the gains as quickly and broadly to the American people as we can. Poverty should be an artifact of the past. GDP is going to roar past a $100,000 ahead. And at that point, you should be able to put more into people's hands.”

“On Tuesday, SpaceX posted on x that it had reached an agreement with Cursor to either be able to acquire the company later this year for $60,000,000,000 or just pay it $10,000,000,000 for their work together.”