TNW 362: What Is Bluesky? - Apple's Expansion Plans, ChatGPT, OpenAI "Operator"
Tech News Weekly (Audio)
Leo Laporte
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🗓️ 14 November 2024
⏱️ 62 minutes
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Summary
Reports are trickling out that Apple plans to expand into different product categories. What to know about Bluesky, the social media network growing in popularity and users following the U.S. elections. And some advancements with ChatGPT and OpenAI that seek to help users out more daily.
- Mark Gurman of Bloomberg joins the show to discuss how Apple is aiming to catch up with the smart home market by releasing a wall-mounted, AI-powered display unit.
- Mikah Sargent continues the conversation on Apple with the company's push into other markets with glasses, home devices, and mixed-reality headsets.
- Following the 2024 U.S. elections, there's been more chatter about Bluesky, a social media network alternative to Twitter / X. So, what is Bluesky?
- And Mikah talks about how ChatGPT is starting to work with other apps on your Mac computers, and OpenAI almost ready to launch a tool to help its users automate tasks.
Host: Mikah Sargent
Guest: Mark Gurman
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| 0:00.0 | Coming up on Tech News Weekly, it's me, Micah Sargent, and this week we kick off the show by talking to Mark |
| 0:06.2 | German of Bloomberg about Apple's rumored home hub. What is the company working on and can we expect more |
| 0:14.5 | of it when it comes to home kit devices? Then we talk about Apple exploring smart glasses and the company hedging its |
| 0:25.1 | bets in small platforms as opposed to just one area, the iPhone. After that, a little bit |
| 0:32.8 | about blue sky. What in the world it is, how you can join, and why everybody seems to be making their move |
| 0:39.2 | to the platform. And we round things out with AI agents, the next step for the generative AI |
| 0:47.0 | craze. All of that coming up on this week's episode of Tech News Weekly. |
| 0:53.8 | Podcasts you love. |
| 0:55.3 | From people you trust. |
| 0:58.0 | This is Twitter. |
| 1:01.5 | This is Tech News Weekly. |
| 1:04.8 | Episode 362 with me, like a sergeant, recorded Thursday, November 14th, 2024. |
| 1:11.6 | What is Blue Sky? |
| 1:15.3 | Hello and welcome to Tech News Weekly, the show, every week we talk to and about the people making and breaking that tech news. |
| 1:21.6 | I am your host, Micah Sargent, and we are typically joined by Amanda Silberling on this, the second Thursday of the month. |
| 1:29.8 | Amanda is not with us today, but we'll see her again next month. I am excited, though, to kick things |
| 1:36.4 | off with a conversation with a guy who knows a whole lot about Apple. It's Mark German of Bloomberg. Welcome back to the show, Mark. |
| 1:47.7 | Thanks for having me. Yeah, pleasure to have you on. So you actually published a piece that had me |
| 1:55.1 | pretty, pretty excited because I certainly spent many years writing about the smart home, and particularly Apple's dalliance |
| 2:06.2 | into the smart home with HomeKit. And you just released a piece talking about Apple working |
| 2:11.5 | on something called a Home Hub. Let's hear about that. It's interesting. So they launched HomeKit actually about 10 and a half years ago back in |
| 2:21.3 | 2014 as part of iOS 18. And then a year later, they released the home app as part of iOS |
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