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How Real is Sam Altman? Gemini Mac App, $10K Apple Pay Hack

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Gemini launches a Mac app, Adobe Firefly brings more AI tools, Anthropic upgrades Claude Code with routines, Apple is sending Siri engineers to AI boot camp, Jason vibe coded some pretty great apps, and how genuine is Sam Altman? Ad-Free + Bonus Episodes Show Notes via Email Creative Effort - Jason's Podcast Watch on YouTube! Join the Community Email Us: [email protected] @stephenrobles on Threads @jasonaten on Threads ------------------------------ Sponsors: Copilot Money - Limited-time: Get 2 months FREE when you sign up at: copilot.money/primary Shopify - Sign up for your one-dollar-per-month trial and start selling today at: shopify.com/primary ------------------------------ Links from the show Is a $3,000 Movie Player Worth It? - YouTube Ferrari Luce Interior - X Allbirds announced a switch from shoes to AI and its stock jumped 600 percent | The Verge Gemini for macOS - your native AI desktop app Gus Mueller: "The new Mac Gemini app has a huge executable bina…" - Mastodon DaVinci Resolve adds new photo editing tools to take on Lightroom and Photoshop | The Verge Adobe Ushers in a New Era of Creativity with New Creative Agent and Generative AI Innovations in Adobe Firefly Anthropic adds routines to redesigned Claude Code, here's how it works - 9to5Mac Redesigning Claude Code on desktop for parallel agents | Claude DoorDash Stunt - Apple News Report: Apple to send Siri engineers to multi-week AI coding bootcamp - 9to5Mac Amazon to buy Globalstar for $11.57B in bid to flesh out its satellite biz | TechCrunch YouTube now lets you turn off Shorts | The Verge $10K Apple Pay Hack - YouTube DJI’s Osmo Pocket 4 camera is better at capturing slo-mo footage and photos | The Verge Microsoft is testing OpenClaw-like AI bots for Copilot | The Verge Festival for Personal AI Apple threatened to pull Musk’s AI Grok from App Store over sexualized deepfakes | The Verge Sam Altman's Blog Sam Altman May Control Our Future—Can He Be Trusted? | The New Yorker Podcast Search ------------------------------ Chapters

(00:00) - Intro

(06:26) - Allbird AI Pivot

(10:58) - Gemini Mac App

(19:01) - Resolve 21

(21:41) - Adobe Firefly

(27:50) - Sponsor: Copilot Money

(29:33) - Sponsor: Shopify

(31:05) - Claude Mac App

(36:02) - DoorDash Stunt

(44:15) - Siri Engineers to Boot Camp

(46:02) - Amazon Buy Globalstar

(51:15) - Turn Off YouTube Shorts

(52:40) - $10K Apple Pay Hack

(55:09) - Lightning Round

(01:06:39) - How Real is Sam Altman?

(01:20:10) - Jason’s Vibe Coded Apps

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