TEH 269: Exploring Apple’s AI Upgrades and the Changing Landscape of Online Search

In This Episode:

Exploring Apple’s AI Upgrades and the Changing Landscape of Online Search

This week the TEH Podcast is hosted by Leo Notenboom, the “Chief Question Answerer” at Ask Leo!, and Gary Rosenzweig, the host and producer of MacMost, and mobile game developer at Clever Media.

Our guest is …

(You’ll find longer Bios on the Hosts page.)

Top Stories

• 0:00 GR: Apple WWDC (World Wide Developer Conference)
  • They’ve largely stopped talking about each OS separately
  • 2:25 Golden Gate
  • 4:50 Not liking liquid glass. Rollback on design a bit
  • 6:00 Focus on speed and reaction times
  • 7:50 “Siri AI”
    • Functional AI: Safari tabs, custom Safari extensions, Photo extend/reframe, build a Shortcut, act on files
    • 12:50 Safari Notify me
    • 16:00 Photos
    • 19:20 Shortcuts
    • 22:40 AI privacy
    • 25:00 Splintering of OS features: US, EU, China.
    • 30:00 Release dates
• 31:20 LN: AI search
  • Google’s announcement:
    • https://blog.google/products-and-platforms/products/search/search-io-2026/ 
  • 34:00 Switching to ChatGPT
  • 35:50 Kagi
  • 37:00 Control with a question mark
  • 40:40 Results depend on how you phrase your question
• 41:45 Semi-related: Better search customization coming in Windows 11 (i.e. no Bing, no Store) –
  • https://hothardware.com/news/windows-11-disable-bing-search-single-toggle

Ain’t it Cool

• 43:10 GR: Hacks series finale
• 44:50 LN: World of Warcraft

BSP: Blatant Self-Promotion

• 46:20 LN: You Can’t Un-Ring a Bell: What Really Happens to Your Data When You Post Anything Online – https://askleo.com/24288
• 47:50 GR: https://macmost.com/3-ways-to-keep-icloud-files-and-photos-local.html

Transcript

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Video

https://youtu.be/PEr1RMD3EaA