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In Machines we Trust

New Apple CEO, OpenAI's New Image Model, Vercel AI Hack

In Machines we Trust

In Machines we Trust

Technology

4.36 Ratings

🗓️ 21 April 2026

⏱️ 16 minutes

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Summary

In this episode, we explore the significant leadership change at Apple as Tim Cook steps down and John Tarnas takes the helm, amid ongoing challenges in the AI sector. We also discuss major developments like Vercel's security breach, Snapchat's layoffs tied to AI, OpenAI's new Image 2.0 model, and Amazon's massive investment in Anthropic.


Chapters
00:00 Apple CEO Tim Cook Steps Down
03:40 Vercel Security Breach
05:59 FTC Settlement with Clarify
09:55 Snapchat Layoffs and AI Coding
14:35 OpenAI Image 2.0 Release
15:39 Amazon Invests in Anthropic


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0:00.0

Apple CEO Tim Cook is officially stepping down on September 1st and John Tarnas is going to become the CEO.

0:07.0

This is really interesting. There's a lot of AI things at play for Apple and they really haven't delivered on their AI promise.

0:14.0

We're going to be getting into that.

0:15.0

Versaelle, the company that I personally used for being my web host for all of my AI tools has had a major security incident

0:22.7

because of an AI tool that one of their employees was using. And the FTC just dropped a settlement

0:28.1

with Clarify over the company using 3 million OKCupid photos to train facial recognition.

0:35.0

Snapchat laid off around 1,000 people and said that it is part of their

0:38.8

AI initiative because AI is writing more than 65% of their new code. They dropped a major new

0:45.5

image model over at OpenAI called Image 2.0. That is a huge step up. I've been playing with it

0:51.4

today. We'll talk about that. And in addition, Anthropics

0:54.5

mythos model has, of course, it's starting to get a bad rep and Sam Altman is going and calling

0:59.5

them out for their fear-based marketing. They also signed a huge enterprise deal at Novo Nordisk,

1:06.2

the Ozempic company will be talking about. And I think one of the biggest stories is that

1:09.8

Amazon is pouring over $25 billion into Anthropic on top of the $100 billion that the AWS team has already

1:18.1

committed. Now, if you're still paying for Chat Chupuette, Cloud, Gemini, Grock, any of the audio

1:22.8

models, 11 labs for audio and any of the image models, I've got to tell you about AI box. This is what I

1:28.7

personally have built. It's what I'm recommending to my friends who asking me how to actually

1:32.6

use AI without going broke on the subscriptions. You get access to over 80 different AI models

1:37.8

in one place, all of the top models, so you can pick whichever one is best for the task that

1:42.6

you are doing. The part that I think is super useful is our automation builder that we have just created. You describe what you want in plain English and it builds out a workflow for you. You don't need to know how to code. You don't need to know how to, you know, wrestle with a new platform. You describe what you want and it builds it for you. So it's $8.99 a month and I hope this is something that saves you a ton of money and is incredibly useful for getting your hands on all of the different AI models to use them.

2:05.3

All right, let's talk about Versel's security breach. This is the company behind Next.js. They host a

2:11.6

huge chunk of the modern web. I basically create all of my new AI apps on them and they have

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