MBW 1024: Good Talk - Apple Reaches $250 Million Settlement Over Promised AI Capabilities on iPhones
MacBreak Weekly (Audio)
Leo Laporte
3.8 • 2.4K Ratings
🗓️ 12 May 2026
⏱️ 127 minutes
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Summary
If you purchased an iPhone between June 2024 and March 2025, you could receive a payment from the $250 million settlement over Apple's intelligence features on iPhones! Apple could be using Intel chips again in future Apple products. More Mac mini and Mac Studio models are no longer available on the Apple Store. And Apple is now requiring verification for education discounts.
- US Supreme Court declines to pause order holding Apple in contempt in Epic Games lawsuit.
- iPhone users could get up to $95 per device as Apple reaches $250M settlement over Siri delays
- Apple reportedly has a deal to use Intel-made chips again.
- Intel's stock jumped 13% today over Apple chip manufacturing report
- Additional Mac mini and Mac Studio models cut from the Apple Store website as AI data centers strain available RAM, SSD supplies
- Apple requires verification for education discounts, ENDS discounts for k-12 unless you're homeschooled.
- Tim Cook among CEOs confirmed for President Trump's China trip.
- More refunds possible for Apple as Trump's 10% global tariffs found illegal too.
- Apple releases tvOS 26.5, HomePod 26.5, and visionOS 26.5.
- Apple to make design changes in macOS 27 to address Tahoe quirks.
- Here's how I finally got Google's uninvited 4GB AI model off my Mac.
- macOS 27 threatens to bury Time Capsule, FOSS brings a shovel.
- Apple kicks off new run of A18 Pro chips as MacBook Neo demand exceeds expectations.
- Not dead yet: Apple Vision still has a future.
- visionOS 27 will bring these new Vision Pro upgrades.
- The $1 Steve Jobs coin.
- Google denies copying Apple's Liquid Glass design for Android.
- You can purchase Apple's Mac Pro wheels kit for $699.
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Hosts: Leo Laporte, Andy Ihnatko, Jason Snell, and Christina Warren
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| 0:00.0 | It's time for Mac Break Weekly. Jason, Andy and Christina are all here. I'm back home. We have lots to talk about, including maybe $25 that Apple owes you. |
| 0:11.5 | We'll tell you why. We'll talk about the Supreme Court saying, no, Apple, you've got to make some concessions to Epic. |
| 0:20.0 | And Tim Cook goes back to China. |
| 0:22.5 | That and a whole lot more coming up on MacBrick Weekly. |
| 0:25.2 | Next. |
| 0:28.3 | Podcasts you love. |
| 0:30.0 | From people you trust. |
| 0:32.5 | This is Twitter. |
| 0:37.1 | This is Mac Break Weekly, episode 10024, recorded Tuesday, May 12th, 2026. |
| 0:45.6 | Good Talk. |
| 0:47.5 | It's time for Mac Break Weekly. |
| 0:49.4 | Yes, the show we cover all the latest Apple News. |
| 0:52.7 | I'm back home, but Christina Warren has moved. I have. |
| 0:56.9 | You're in the beautiful, somewhere beautiful. Look at the greenery and the angel window. |
| 1:01.2 | Yeah, it's so green out. So I'm in Atlanta. I'm in my mom's office. I came to visit for Mother's Day. |
| 1:07.5 | And it was funny, actually, because a Facebook memory came up of a photo, I guess, I posted, |
| 1:12.0 | where five years ago, I guess it was this week, my nephew made his podcasting debut because |
| 1:18.2 | he was in my arms as I was on an episode of This Week in Tech. |
| 1:22.8 | And I held him the whole episode. |
| 1:25.0 | And he was at that point, I think he was maybe eight days old. You held a baby for three hours. I did. I did. And he was good. And he was good while his mother napped. That was my mother's day to give to her. Oh, I dimly remember that. Which episode was that? I don't remember now, but it was, it was something. It was super cute super cute though because he even had his own, um, um, um, um, um, Kiron, like it said like, you know, like Christian Warren baby, like as his, you know, title. That's Andy Anachco, not holding a baby, probably holding a tome of some sort because he's at the library. Hello, Andrew. Christina, was, was his first words as a |
| 2:02.6 | consequence of that, like a name of like a mattress or a food prep company? You know, no, but you |
| 2:10.0 | know what he does? Blue apron. I spent too much in my time napping all day. I don't have time to cook a good |
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