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Anthropic's leaked prospectus suggests that the what is likely to be the largest IPO in history may also be the strangest, shrouded in doom but perhaps not gloom?

🔗 The iPhone 4 ‘Antennagate’ Press Conference Q&A — Finally • Daring Fireball Last January, as the AI perception issues were mounting, I wrote a post arguing that the industry needed a Steve Jobs-like figure to step in to take control of the messaging.

🔗 Lucasfilm Circling Director Jon Watts To Helm ‘Star Wars: Episode X’ (EXCLUSIVE) • Knight Edge Media Cue the Star Wars opening crawl...

I've been a Foursquare user since day one.

Aside from out-Googling Google with their AI personal assistant Muse, it's arguably more impressive that Meta appears to have out-Apple'd Apple by turning the just-okay Quest into what sure sounds like a better version of the Vision Pro.

Two and a half years ago, just weeks after the launch of the Vision Pro, it was clear to me that Apple had made a mistake.

This was, without question, the most comfortable I've ever seen Mark Zuckerberg on stage.

Muse has likely kicked the AI agentic race that was already well underway into a higher gear, with seemingly all of Big Tech and Big AI set to respond.

🔗 Meta Has Been Testing a 'Human Concierge' For Its New Personal AI Agent, Muse • Reuters Basically impossible for me to ignore this headline after yesterday's "Soylent Googlebook is Android".

I was there Gandalf.

Well, it didn't take long for a full-on AI Agentic War to break out.

The number one response I've gotten to my thoughts on Meta's Muse personal assistant agent is some variation of "I will never trust Meta with my data."

With my own Apple keynote and iPhone Duo initial thoughts out of the way, I've been catching up on some of the other coverage from last week.

Happy iPhone Launch Day to those who celebrate.

Might Apple make their own AI chips?

It happened.

🔗 With Emmys Haul, Apple Joins the Big Leagues of TV • NYT A well-deserved victory lap for Apple today after winning big at the Emmys.

It was the best of times, it was the end of times...

The tenure of John Ternus has started with a bang.

“I’m John Burgundy?”

🔗 Apple to Unveil $2,000 'iPhone Duo' at High-Stakes Event • Bloomberg The day is upon us.

Do you feel like every other headline and talking point coming out of the companies at the AI frontier contradict each other?

When I woke up this morning, my entire social media feed made me feel insane.

🔗 Why Apple’s Phil Schiller is Stepping Down from Running the App Store • Bloomberg With the news last week that Phil Schiller would be stepping down from his longtime post atop Apple's App Store, my initial reaction was that it could signal an impending…

Big week for the frontier AI model race with GPT-6 Astra, Fable/Mythos 5.1, and to less extents, Gemini 3.8 Flash and Must Spark 1.3 all pushed out the door, which is obviously not a coincidence.

It’s a question as old as time.

The caution flags have been lifted.

Sometimes I feel like I'm The Architect in The Matrix.

An OpenAI cover story gets thrown for a loop when their models hack a partner (one which NVIDIA may or may not be buying).

Tim Cook's watch over Apple officially ends this coming Tuesday.

🔗 Mark Zuckerberg is Buying Meta a Seat at the AI Table.

🔗 Meta to Pay Up to $17.1 Billion in Landmark Settlement Over Social Media Addiction Claims • NYT On one level, it's just math. $17.1 billion is less than $200 billion (the amount the states were seeking in damages).

Uh, Bill Gates sounds a lot like...

The streaming wars are over.