TNW 378: Apple's Upcoming OS Overhaul - AI Creative Writing, Xbox Copilot, AI Citations
Tech News Weekly (Audio)
Leo Laporte
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🗓️ 13 March 2025
⏱️ 61 minutes
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Summary
Does OpenAI have the capability for creative writing? Would you want to be coached in gaming through AI? What is Apple planning for its possible operating system redesign? And does AI have inconsistencies when providing the correct information to search queries?
- Amanda Silberling of TechCrunch joins Mikah Sargent this week. Amanda talks about OpenAI and Sam Altman's social media post about how OpenAI is good at creative writing.
- Mikah talks about Microsoft's plan to launch Xbox Copilot, an AI-powered gaming assistant that can offer tips, guides, and information about the games you are playing.
- Mark Gurman of Bloomberg stops by to talk about Apple's plans to dramatically overhaul the look of its operating systems with the next iterations of iOS, iPadOS, and Mac OS.
- And Mikah talks about a study from the Tao Center and how AI systems are frequently providing incorrect information and citations from various sources and news articles.
Hosts: Mikah Sargent and Amanda Silberling
Guest: Mark Gurman
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| 0:00.0 | I'm Micah Sargent from Tech News Weekly, and this week Amanda Silverling joins me. |
| 0:04.4 | We talk about OpenAI's creative writing. |
| 0:08.6 | We talk about Microsoft's upcoming gaming coach based in co-pilot AI. |
| 0:14.8 | And Mark German stops by to talk about Apple's overhaul of its operating systems |
| 0:20.3 | before we round things out, a study |
| 0:22.5 | about AI search having a citation problem. All of that coming up on Tech News Weekly. |
| 0:29.9 | Podcasts you love. From people you trust. This is Twitter. |
| 0:37.9 | This is Tech News Weekly, episode 378, with Amanda Silverling and me, Micah Sargent, recorded Thursday, March 13, 2025. |
| 0:48.5 | Apple's upcoming OS overhaul. |
| 0:52.0 | Hello and welcome to Tech News Weekly, the show every week we talk to and about the people |
| 0:56.4 | making and breaking that tech news. |
| 0:58.4 | I am one of your hosts on this very show. |
| 1:02.7 | My name is Micah Sargent, and I am joined for the show by my dear friend. |
| 1:08.9 | It is Amanda Silberling. Welcome, welcome, Amanda. How you doing? |
| 1:14.3 | Hello, hello. Moments before recording, I opened the internet and was jump scared by a large |
| 1:20.2 | photo of Sam Altman. So I'm being really brave right now. We're recovering. I'm very proud of you. |
| 1:26.8 | You're breathing. You're here. |
| 1:28.3 | You're present. |
| 1:29.3 | It's great. |
| 1:30.3 | It was a very normal picture. |
| 1:32.3 | It was just very large. |
| 1:34.3 | Right. |
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