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This week on AppStories, John and Federico talk about Apple's new HomeView, the HomePod mini 2, and Apple TV 4K (4th gen).

This week on AppStories, Federico and John start realizing the benefits of their attempt to automate all administrative tasks and explain why Apple's vague developer blog post about Full Disk Access and AI agents should concern all Mac users whether or not they use AI.

This week on AppStories, John shares his favorite parts of macOS and watchOS 27 from his reviews of both. On AppStories+, Federico and John begin revisiting new their long lists of automation projects. Also available on YouTube here. Sponsored By: Scribe – AI-powered workflow documentation. Get your first month free. Links and Show Notes John's macOS and watchOS 27 Reviews macOS 27: The MacStories Review watchOS 27: The MacStories Review AppStories+ Show Notes AI Agents and Cloud Development Claude Code Projects Cursor Cloud Agents Muse (Meta AI agent) Grok Bot Local AI on Mac Studio Qwen3.8 Flash Next Xiaomi MiMo-V2.6 MLX LM Studio Draw Things oMLX mlx-serve DwarfStar Open Minis Tailscale Leave Feedback for John and Federico AppStories Feedback Form Follow us on Social Media Federico is @viticci everywhere John is @johnvoorhees`everywhere Affiliate Linking Policy

This week on AppStories, John interviews Federico about his review of the M5 Ultra Mac Studio and it local AI capabilities. On AppStories+, Federico takes listeners behind the scenes on how he tested the M5 Ultra Mac Studio. Also available on YouTube here. Sponsored By: Workbench: Remote desktop for AI agents and headless Mac minis. Free to use for 20 minutes/day. Claude – For problems worth solving — get started with Claude today. Links and Show Notes Running Local AI Models on Apple's Latest Macs M5 Ultra Mac Studio Review: The Dream Mac for Local AI Agents Apple Hardware Mac Studio Mac mini Studio Display XDR Local Models Qwen3.8-Flash-Next Qwen3.8-27B DeepSeek-V4-Flash GLM-5.3-Flash Cohere Transcribe Qwen3-TTS Qwen-Image-2.1 Local Inference and Clustering oMLX exo Agent Apps and Tools Hermes Agent Hermes Agent on GitHub Open Minis Cadu OpenAI Brings Computer Use to Codex App on Windows Frontier Models and Workflow GPT-6 Astra Claude Fable 5.1 Claude Projects Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index Elyx NVIDIA PC Comparison GeForce RTX 5090 Lian Li A3-mATX NVIDIA DGX Spark AppStories+ Post-Show: A preview of how Federico used local AI models to support his iOS and iPadOS 27 review. Leave Feedback for John and Federico AppStories Feedback Form Follow us on Social Media Federico is @viticci everywhere John is @johnvoorhees everywhere Affiliate Linking Policy

This week Federico shares thoughts from his review of iOS and iPadOS 27. Then in the AppStories+ post-show, he explains how he used agents to support the production of the review and Club MacStories extras. Also available on YouTube here. Sponsored By: Granola – The AI notepad for back-to-back days. Try for 3 months, for free, with code MACSTORIES. Links and Show Notes iOS and iPadOS 27: The MacStories Review Federico's iOS and iPadOS 27 Review Our OS 27 Review Extras: eBooks, Shortcuts, and the Making of the iOS and iPadOS 27 Review On AppStories Next Week: macOS 27: The MacStories Review watchOS 27: The MacStories Review AppStories+ Post-Show: The Role Agents Played in Review Production Leave Feedback for John and Federico AppStories Feedback Form Follow us on Social Media Federico is @viticci everywhere John is @johnvoorhees`everywhere Affiliate Linking Policy