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The CultCast

M5 MacBook Pros Incoming — But HOLD ON… OLED Macs Are Next. Plus: AI Xcode & Apple’s New $2B Bet (CultCast #736)

The CultCast

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4.71.6K Ratings

🗓️ 8 February 2026

⏱️ 66 minutes

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Send us a text! With reseller stock drying up, new M5 Pro and M5 Max MacBook Pros appear to be RIGHT around the corner! We’ve also got more intel on Apple’s first OLED MacBook Pro (with a full redesign!). Plus: major new features landing in iOS 26.3 and 26.4, what Apple’s second-largest acquisition reveals about Siri’s future, autonomous AI agents are coming to Xcode, and a disappointing new rumor about the next Studio Display… Sponsors NordStellar Most companies only act after a bre...

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0:00.0

Well, it's nobody.

0:16.4

It's just me.

0:18.4

Yours truly.

0:22.0

A good old pal,

0:23.0

Big Papa Earth.

0:25.8

That's it.

0:27.2

But you know what?

0:30.4

We do have a very special episode coming up.

0:34.6

Probably a couple days after this episode airs.

0:39.6

I recorded an episode with a listener.

0:42.1

I think I mentioned this last show,

0:44.5

but I got,

0:45.2

well,

0:48.1

I'm getting ahead of myself here.

0:49.2

Sorry I'm late.

0:51.6

I went on holiday with my family to beautiful Cleolem, Washington, which really was cool.

0:56.9

We had a great Airbnb that we rented in the middle of like this valley.

1:01.2

If you've never been to Washington, there's a lot of valleys and hills and valleys and hills and mountains and valleys.

1:07.9

And so we were in central Washington in this, I don't know, is it a town

1:12.6

or a city? I'm not sure which. It's pretty small. Well, it's actually not small anymore. My gosh,

1:17.8

I've been there in a while. And now it's just completely terraformed with just, you know, rich

1:24.1

scum. I'm joking. But it's definitely got money there, which actually is nice because

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