Tim Cook leaves Apple with an unexpected AI success story as OpenAI reportedly buys tens of thousands of Mac minis and Mac Studios to train computer-use agents.
On Hashtag Trending for Tuesday, September 1, Jim Love looks at why Apple Silicon is finding a new role inside some of the world's leading AI companies, including OpenAI and Anthropic.
Also in today's show:
OpenAI says advertising in ChatGPT has reached a $1 billion annualized revenue run rate in less than 200 days. That's still tiny beside Google and Meta, but already about one-third the current size of Reddit's advertising business.
OpenClaw 2.0 arrives with its biggest update yet, involving 933 contributors and more than 16,000 pull requests. Installation is easier, security has improved and the agents can do more, but prompt injection remains a risk and sandboxing is still disabled by default.
And MapQuest suddenly becomes the number-one navigation app in the U.S. Apple App Store after refusing to rename Lake Ontario "Lake America." We look at what Google, Apple and Waze are doing, why MapQuest usage exploded, and the Indigenous origins of the name Ontario, which dates back at least to 1641.
00:00 Today's Headlines 00:31 Apple's Surprise AI Win 02:36 Why Macs Work for AI Agents 03:18 ChatGPT Ads Hit $1 Billion 04:49 OpenClaw 2.0 Arrives 07:18 OpenClaw's Remaining Security Risks 08:05 MapQuest Takes a Stand on Lake Ontario 09:47 The Indigenous Origins of Ontario 11:06 Wrap Up
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