OpenAI drama, wearable rumors and opportunities, and somehow also HomePod news?

• Pre-show: 🗣️ New member’s special! ATP Insider: Roast My Home Screen 🗣️
• Follow-up:
  • Additional thoughts on TSMC vs. American workers (via Josh Osborne)
  • EU approves Apple’s commitments to open NFC access
    • EU announcement
  • Apple approves emulator UTM SE after initial rejection
    • infinitemac.org
  • More on robots.txt (via Mike Lewis)
    • MISP
    • Verifying Googlebot & other Google crawlers
    • Verifying Bingbot
• Maybe Open AI ain’t such a great group, after all
  • Phil Schiller to join OpenAI’s board as an “Observer”
  • Wait, j/k j/k j/k
  • Open AI silences whistleblowers
    • SEC Whistleblower Program
• Apple Watch SE with… plastic casing?
• New HomePod Mini color
  • Press release
• Apple “Home Accessory”
  • Touchscreen HomePod rumors
• Ask ATP:
  • Should one even bother learning an ancient language today?
  • What’s the correct placement for an EV charger? (via Thomas Brock)
  • How do we keep our backup vortexes from becoming backup black holes? (via Russell Fitzpatrick)
    • Arq Backup
  • Why doesn’t Apple include a small battery in desktop Macs? (via Ty Bolt)
• Post-show: Marco’s 🍌 has come home
  • Before photo
• Members-only ATP Overtime: Apple Product Longevity
  • Apple improving battery replacements
  • Apple commits to at least 5 years of security updates
  • Apple’s Don’t Let Me Go ad
  • Gruber’s response
    • Follow-up
    • iCloud vs. Competition

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In this member-exclusive special, we judge each other's iPhone home screens.

The big Overcast rewrite is finally here on the app's tenth birthday.

• Pre-show: Casey’s phoenix
• Follow-up:
  • More on “S-Tier” (via kuriko)
  • More on the HP iPod (via Voline)
  • David Schaub identifies the iMac clone that Apple sued over
  • European Union regulations & profits (via Yury Molodtsov)
  • More on non-competes (via Gary Havens)
  • 🇹🇼/🇺🇸 Culture Clash explained (via Ryan Lee)
• Overcast’s 10th Anniversary… Launch!
  🎉 × 1️⃣0️⃣
  • Blackbird
  • FCModel
• Post-show: Casey’s new office audio setup
  • Era 300
  • Premium Immersive Set with Arc (Casey has the same Arc soundbar, the same Sub Gen 3, but One SLs as rears)
  • Sub (Gen 3)
  • Move (Casey has a Move 1)
  • Roam (Casey has a Roam 1)
• Members-only ATP Overtime: Apple Notarization changes in Sequoia
  • Follow-up

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Considerations for blocking AI crawlers, tech's labor issues, and Apple's continued battles with the world.

• Pre-show: Casey’s tales of woe
  • Fully Herman Miller Jarvis
• Follow-up:
  • An 🎵 accidental 🎵 miss from the iPod Tier List special (via Scott Shuchart)
  • The origins of S-Tier in tier lists (via David Schaub)
    • Grading in Japan
  • AirPods Pro do have an inward-facing microphone
  • Another entry for Brexit-style name for Apple rage-quitting the EU (via Terry Gilbert)
  • What’s the justification for allowing AI crawlers? (via Manu)
  • Cloudflare has 1-click AI crawler blocking
  • Epic Games & Apple continue to bicker
    • Epic accuses Apple of delaying its EU alternative store launch
      • Epic’s statements
    • Apple approves Epic Games Store
    • Tim Sweeney pops off
• Tech and Labor
  • FTC has banned noncompete agreements for workers
  • TSMC’s Struggles in Arizona
    • Gruber’s summary
  • US-made chips will cost Apple more
    • The Financial Times
  • Judge says “just kidding” to FTC’s noncompete ruling
• Ask ATP:
  • Is moving to a bundled password manager safe (via Trager)
  • Is Apple’s embrace of AI enough to prevent it from being the next crypto? (via Jamie)
  • What makes iCloud Keychain different than the Windows Recall database? (via Jon Wilson)
  • Is Apple still a privacy-first company? (via Steven Wood)
• Post-show: John still isn’t allowing holes in his house
  • Technology Connections video on heat pumps
  • Inverted U-shaped heat pumps
• Members-only ATP Overtime: Feature Requests for Death
  • Greg Pierce
  • Craig Hockenberry
  • Louie Mantia

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AI vs. web publishers, AI vs. the record labels, AI vs. creators, John vs. creation, and self-identifying as a robot.

• Pre-show:
  • Casey’s lunchtime soundtrack
  • New member’s special: iPod Tier List
• Follow-up:
  • Is the genesis of the red/black U2 iPod How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb (via Brian Hamilton)
  • An additional “feature” of the U2 iPods (via Max Velasco Knott)
  • One EU citizen’s perspective on DMA (via Nicolai Brunvoll Ernst)
  • Suggestions for “Brexit”-style colloquialisms for Apple leaving the EU
    • iQuit (via Oliver Thomas)
    • iLeave (via Jared Counts)
    • AXiT (via Frederik Björeman)
  • CarPlay audio
    • New version of Casey’s dongle
  • Using AirPods Pro as hearing protection (via Kirk Northrop)
  • Apple is using Google Cloud infrastructure to train/serve AI
    • AxLearn
    • AxLearn Infrastructure
• Apple’s “Help Me Choose” Wizard
  • Giulio Montagner discovers the dark truth
  • A PCI Express break-out box compatible with Apple Silicon Macs
• AI Training & Data Rights
  • John Voorhees from MacStories
  • Protecting MacStories from AI Bots
  • OpenAI and Anthropic are ignoring robots.txt as well
    • robots.txt
  • MJ Tsai roundup
  • Perplexity CEO doesn’t really seem to care
  • Microsoft’s AI boss actively doesn’t care about your feelings
• Google Zero
• Music industry giants cry copyright foul on AI firms
  • The Verge
  • Andy Baio
    • 404 Media
  • The RIAA versus AI, explained
• Figma pulls AI tool after it apes Apple’s design
• I Made This - John’s post about AI and the act of creation
• Monkey selfie copyright dispute
• Post-show: John’s Mac Pro[blems]
• Members-only ATP Overtime: Apple’s Vision Pro plans
  • Gurman’s take
  • Jason’s take

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