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HomeView First Look, AI Doesn't Have Feelings, Walk Across Canada

The best recaps of Apple’s Welcome Home event, Michael Fisher’s iPhone Duo interview, why Anthropic’s new Claude policy if off, an app to "walk" across Canada, and a TED talk asking if AI is turning us all into the same person. Get the Newsletter Important Details from Apple’s Welcome Home Event — Eric Welander All Features of Apple’s New HomeView — The Verge Exclusive: The iPhone Duo’s Display, Exposed — MrMobile Anthropic Just Banned Being Cruel to Claude. The Reason Should Concern Us All — Inc. (01:44) Across Canada — Basic Apple Guy TrellisWM — The Fractal Window Manager for Mac Is AI Turning Us All Into the Same Person? — Sandra Matz, TED

Who is HomeView For? Apple’s Fight for the Smart Home, Anthropic Thinks Claude Has Feelings

Apple made its foray back in the smart home with the new HomeView device, Apple TV 4K, HomePod mini 2, and Home Collection devices. We debate who will benefit from the HomeView, have a theory about Siri AI and Apple TV, plus try to make sure we all understand Claude isn’t alive. Vote for Our Signal Awards! Best Co-Host Team Listener's Choice Technology Shows Our Apps Element Photo App Kan Do Task App Contextly Notes All Stephen's Apps Our Links Top Five Tech | Stephen’s Podcast Creative Effort | Jason's Podcast Watch on YouTube! Show Notes via Email Email Us: podcast@primarytech.fm @stephenrobles on Threads @jasonaten on Threads Sponsors: Ramp - Stop guessing where your AI spend is going. Get started with Ramp with two hundred and fifty dollars off at: ramp.com/primary SerpAPI - Visit serpapi.com/primarytech and receive an extra 250 searches FREE. That is 500 free searches in your first month! OriginHQ - Origin is endpoint AI observability. See what a trace looks like at: originhq.com/primarytechnology Links from the show Stephen's Apple Home Event Recap Video Anthropic Just Banned Being Cruel to Claude – The Reason Should Concern Us All - Inc. (01:12:26) McSnake App - App Store Welcome Apple HomeView: Designed for life at home - YouTube Apple HomeView - Apple Apple Event: HomePod surround, HomeView, and Apple TV - YouTube All features of Apple's new HomeView - YouTube Third-party HomeView apps? Think CarPlay – Six Colors Apple TV 4K - Apple Siri Remote - Apple Apple announces the next generation of HomePod mini - Apple Will the Full-Sized HomePod Get Siri AI? Apple's Website Offers a Clue - MacRumors Latest HomePods can output Mac system audio - AppleInsider Introducing Apple Home Collection, a new lineup of smart home accessories - Apple LG Floodlight Cam - Apple Here’s how much iPhone Duo costs to repair out-of-warranty - 9to5Mac 2026 Usage Policy update – Anthropic X post from OpenAI Newsroom Meta has some Wonder Full new AI models | The Verge Google finally releases Gemini 4 Argon | The Verge YouTube sticks new labels on AI-generated songs | The Verge It Turns Out the Only Thing People Like Less Than AI Is Paying for Adobe Creative Cloud - Inc. (01:27:29) GitHub - boykopovar/AnyPS5: Tool for automatic PS5 executables Netflix is laying off around 1,000 employees | The Verge Download LM Studio - Mac, Linux, Windows Oceans Battery Organizer Electric Lunch Box Food Warmer

The Real Danger of AI Agents, 3 Free Apps for Creators, Muse Mixed Bag

Kurzgesagt explains how AI models broke containment and hacked Hugging Face, my interview on going independent, three free Mac apps I built this week, a clever iOS 27 Shortcuts launcher, and Alexandr Wang on Meta’s Muse agent. Get the Newsletter AI Just Became Humanity’s Biggest Threat — Kurzgesagt He Left Riverside With No Safety Net — One Year Later, This Happened with Stephen Robles Leveler, Transcriber, and Captioner — beardfm.app SumClip — The Clipboard That Counts Deflector Turns iOS 27 Notification Triggers into a Shortcut Launcher — MacStories The Biggest Launch Since ChatGPT (Muse) — Cleo Abram

Muse AI is Useful and Horrible, Apple Home Event, OpenAI Crossed a Line

Apple may be partnering with LG for new smart home accessories, Microsoft’s Surface Laptop Ultra reveal with “MagSafe” USB-C port, Muse AI in real use cases, OpenAI may be going too far with its models, and Stephen finally tries Tailscale. Vote for Our Show! Signal Awards: Best Co-Host Team Signal Awards: Technology Podcast Member Promo Code: IWANTCHAPTERS (Click above and the $2.50 promo will be auto applied!) Our Apps Element Photo App Kan Do Task App Contextly Notes Stephen's Free Apps Our Links Top Five Tech | Stephen’s Podcast Creative Effort | Jason's Podcast Watch on YouTube! Show Notes via Email Email Us: podcast@primarytech.fm @stephenrobles on Threads @jasonaten on Threads Sponsors: ElevenLabs - Get a demo today and hear what’s possible at elevenlabs.io/primary Framer - Start creating for free at framer.com/primary and get 30% off an annual Pro plan! CleanMyMac - Get Tidy Today! Try 7 days free and use my code PRIMARYTECH for 20% off at clnmy.com/PRIMARYTECH Links from the show Amazon's New Kindle Lineup for 2026 | About Amazon Amazon Kindle Bundle with Remote Apple’s new ‘second-party’ accessories for Home are bigger than we thought, per leak X post from pdfu: First look at home accessories Apple co-developed with LG Schlage Sense Pro Smart Lock Showdown - YouTube Apple TV 4K Rumored to Support Four HomePods for Surround Sound - MacRumors Microsoft finally confirms Surface Laptop Ultra pricing | Windows Central Microsoft is giving Copilot more control over Windows and your files | The Verge Jason on Action News- 6abc Philadelphia The Biggest Launch Since ChatGPT (Muse) - Cleo Abram AI Just Crossed the Terrifying Line - Now What? - YouTube OpenAI launches visual ads that appear alongside image generation results | TechCrunch OpenAI is adding text watermarking in ChatGPT and Codex | The Verge ChatGPT Gets GPT-6 and New Intelligent UI With Visual Answers - MacRumors OpenAI releases progress on more than 300 math research problems - The Washington Post Fired OpenAI Researchers Ask Company to Preserve Visibility Into AI Reasoning - WSJ Google's SynthID AI Detector is Now Available to Everyone - MacRumors SynthID Detector Apple Intelligence Comes With a Very Annoying Feature. How to Turn It Off | Inc. Paramount and Warner Bros. Discovery complete $110 billion media megamerger | The Verge Emmys will move from broadcast TV to Prime Video in 2027 | TechCrunch Disney Plus will stream Super Bowl LXI | The Verge Today Marks the 15th Anniversary of Steve Jobs' Death - MacRumors The Weirdest Part of Remembering Steve Jobs

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Nate Baranowski

Nate Baranowski

Host of Movies on the Side
Stephen Robles

Stephen Robles

Host of Movies on the Side
Jason Aten

Jason Aten

Host of Primary Technology