iPhone 18 Pro Reviews, iOS 27 + Siri AI are OUT, AI Annihilation or Nah?

iOS 27 and Siri AI are out (sorry EU) and there’s a big asterisk on HomeKit cameras, plus iPhone 18 Pro reviews, Apple Watch Series 12, Meta launches insane subscriptions, and is AI gonna kill us all or what? 

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Links from the show

• iPhone Duo Battery Percentage
• New Apple CEO John Ternus attending Emmy Awards (and sporting iPhone Duo) - 9to5Mac
• Widow’s Bay sweeps 78th Primetime Emmy Awards as Apple TV scores 9 more wins - 9to5Mac
• HBO boss reacts to Apple TV winning more Emmy awards - 9to5Mac
• John Ternus Taking a Selfie
• 150+ NEW iOS 27 Features (no Siri AI) - YouTube
• Expect to pay up to $60 to use Apple's home security AI summaries - AppleInsider
• 50 Ways to Use Siri AI Right Now
• iPhone 18 Pro: A Photographer's Review - YouTube
• iPhone 18 Pro Camera Review: Dunton, Colorado — Austin Mann
• iPhone 18 Pro review: it's all about the manual controls - YouTube
• iPhone 18 Pro Max Review - Apple's Hyping The Wrong Thing
• Apple Reference Image: A New Approach for Verified Photography - Apple Security Research
• Apple Watch Series 12 and Ultra 4 review: More personal than ever before - 9to5Mac
• Everything New in iOS 27.2 Beta 1 - MacRumors
• Dario Amodei — We Must Pace the Frontier
• AI Leaders Are Calling for a Slowdown. Trump’s Team Says It’s on Them | WIRED
• AI Companies Love to Tell Us How Dangerous Their Products Are. This Time, They Mean It | Inc.com
• Your AI apocalypse questions, answered - The Vergecast - Apple Podcasts
• How AI CEOs sound then VS now - YouTube
• Humanoid robot crashes into a wall during a sprint test at the 'Robot Olympics' in Beijing - YouTube
• Meta’s new One subscriptions put a price on social media and AI | The Verge
• Apple might make servers again to cash in on the AI rush | The Verge

• (00:00) - Intro
• (05:10) - iPhone Duo Battery %
• (06:46) - John Ternus at Emmys
• (12:19) - iOS 27 Features
• (14:29) - HomeKit Cameras
• (20:52) - Our Apps for Siri AI
• (28:14) - iPhone 18 Pro Reviews
• (34:11) - Sponsor: SerpAPI
• (36:21) - Sponsor: Framer
• (38:15) - iPhone 18 Pro Unboxing!
• (41:59) - Apple Watch Reviews
• (45:04) - iOS 27.2 Beta
• (50:46) - AI Annihilation
• (01:06:43) - Meta Subscriptions
• (01:15:58) - Using AI Outside of Coding

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