TNW 377: MWC 2025: Marvelous Mobile Tech - Updated iPad's, M4 MacBook Air, AI-Powered Dubbing

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🗓️ 6 March 2025

⏱️ 73 minutes

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Summary

There was something in the air for sure as Apple released updates to the iPad and iPad Air, alongside the M4 MacBook Air and Mac Studio with the M4 Max and M4 Ultra chips. Some of the exciting and interesting devices shown at the Mobile World Congress 2025 event. The recent iOS 18.4 beta introduced AI-powered summaries in the App Store. And Prime Video is testing AI-powered dubbing for some of its video content.

Dan Moren of SixColors joins Mikah Sargent to talk about the new devices announced throughout the week: the updated iPad and iPad Air, MacBook Air with the M4 chip, and the Mac Studio with the M4 Max and M3 Ultra chips.
Patrick Holland of CNET stops by to share with Mikah some of the new and exciting devices that came out of the Mobile World Congress 2025 event, alongside the more interesting concepts and gadgets from the event.
Mikah talks about the the latest iOS 18.4 beta that is out now and how it has introduced AI-powered review summaries in the App Store.
And continuning the trend of AI-powered features, Amazon's Prime Video is testing AI-powered dubbing for some of its select videos in English and Spanish.

Host: Mikah Sargent

Guests: Dan Moren and Patrick Holland

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0:00.0	Coming up on Tech News Weekly, Dan Moore of Six Color stops by to give us the lowdown on all the stuff Apple announced this week.
0:07.2	Then Patrick Holland of CNET joins us to tell us about Mobile World Congress 2025.
0:13.1	Before I round things out with two AI stories you won't want to miss.
0:18.2	Stay tuned for Tech News Weekly.
0:22.1	Podcasts you love.
0:24.0	From people you trust.
0:26.5	This is Twitter.
0:30.0	This is Tech News Weekly.
0:33.2	With me, Micah Sargent, episode 377, recorded Thursday, March 6th, 2025.
0:40.4	MWC. 2025, Marvelous Mobile Tech.
0:46.0	Hello and welcome to Tech News Weekly, the show wherever week we talk to and about the people making and breaking that tech news.
0:52.3	I am your host, Micah Sargent. And today we are kicking
0:56.8	things off with a conversation about what was in the air this week as Apple made its announcements
1:04.8	because not all the announcements came out in time for our early in the week shows that cover Apple. Some hit
1:12.9	the waves afterwards. So joining us to tell us all about it is Dan Morin. Welcome back to the show, Dan.
1:20.8	That's good to be here. Micah, something must have happened with Apple. Otherwise, you didn't break the
1:25.0	glass to pull me out of emergency.
1:28.1	Exactly, exactly.
1:30.0	So, Dan, I was hoping we could start by talking about the stuff that was announced earlier in the week, which is the new iPad Air and the new iPad.
1:39.4	And kind of what Apple announced with that. There has been some interesting conversations surrounding where the iPad no name falls into the scope of things,
1:53.0	and where the iPad Air does versus the iPad Pro.
1:57.0	So could you start by telling us what exactly was announced?
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