Apple’s US investment, AI pep talk
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🗓️ 12 August 2025
⏱️ 8 minutes
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Stories discussed in this episode:
- Apple announces a new $100B commitment to US manufacturing
- Tim Cook gifts Trump with US-made piece of glass, 24k gold base
- iPhone and Apple Watch will 'soon' have a US-made cover glass
- Tim Cook holds company-wide meeting to address Apple’s AI woes
- Apple exec says Siri will get ‘much bigger upgrade than we envisioned’
- Tim Cook hints Apple’s product roadmap is its most exciting ever
- Elon Musk accuses Apple of favoring OpenAI in App Store rankings
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to 995 Mac Daily for Tuesday, August 12, 2025. |
| 0:07.6 | I'm your host, Chance Miller. |
| 0:09.6 | We are sponsored this week by Backblaze. |
| 0:12.8 | Leading off today, Apple has announced an expansion of its ongoing investment in the United States. |
| 0:18.8 | In a press release, the company touted a new $100 billion commitment to America, which includes |
| 0:24.9 | plans to move manufacturing of all of the cover glass for iPhone and Apple Watch to the U.S. |
| 0:31.6 | This $100 billion comes over the next four years and is on top of the previously announced $500 billion investment |
| 0:39.4 | in the U.S. Apple also announced the American Manufacturing Program, which will help expand its |
| 0:45.8 | partnership with Glass Company Corning. Additionally, the Advanced Manufacturing Program will |
| 0:51.4 | lead an expansion of its silicon supply chain, an expansion of its |
| 0:55.9 | partnership with coherent, which manufactures lasers used in face ID, a 250,000 square foot |
| 1:02.4 | server facility in Houston, up to 20,000 new direct jobs focused on AI, silicon engineering, |
| 1:10.0 | and software development, an Apple Manufacturing |
| 1:12.8 | Academy in Detroit, and an expansion of data centers in Nevada, Iowa, Oregon, and North Carolina. |
| 1:20.6 | The headlining partnership, though, again, is an expansion of its partnership with Corning, |
| 1:25.2 | with Apple touting that 100% of the cover glass on iPhone and Apple |
| 1:30.3 | watch units sold worldwide will be made in the United States for the first time. Apple's press |
| 1:36.3 | release about the Corning Partnership was very light on details when it comes to deadlines and |
| 1:41.6 | timelines, so it's not explicitly clear when it will hit that new |
| 1:46.0 | milestone. These announcements are a clear attempt at placating President Trump and the Trump |
| 1:51.8 | administration to help avoid the impact of ongoing tariffs on iPhones and other products. |
| 1:58.8 | In other news today, Elon Musk is once again going after Apple, this time accusing |
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