TNW 395: Galaxy Unpacked: Folds & Flips - Samsung Unveils the Z Flip7, Z Fold7, and Galaxy Watch8
Tech News Weekly (Audio)
Leo Laporte
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🗓️ 10 July 2025
⏱️ 58 minutes
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Summary
Dan Moren joins us this week! Rumors are circulating about an A18 MacBook Pro and iPhone 17 Air from Apple, Samsung just held its Galaxy Unpacked event this month and unveiled updates to some of its products, AI bots are scraping obituaries for profit, and a new browser war is emerging between two AI companies.
- Dan Moren talks about the rumored A18 MacBook Pro and iPhone 17 Air that Apple could announce this year as ways to appeal to broader consumer markets.
- Mikah Sargent shares the Galaxy Z Flip7, Galaxy Z Fold7, and the Galaxy Watch8 that Samsung unveiled at its recently held Galaxy Unpacked July 2025 event.
- Joe Supan of CNET joins the show to talk with Mikah about how AI is starting to scrape obituaries shared on social media networks like Facebook, and is being monetized for profit.
- And Mikah discusses an upcoming AI-powered browser war that looks to challenge Google Chrome, with companies like Perplexity launching Comet and OpenAI soon to launch its own web browser.
Hosts: Mikah Sargent and Dan Moren
Guest: Joe Supan
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| 0:00.0 | Coming up on Tech News Weekly, Dan Morin joins me to talk about, well, rumors of an A18 |
| 0:07.5 | Pro MacBook and the iPhone 17 Air. |
| 0:11.9 | Afterward, we talk about Samsung Galaxy unpacked. |
| 0:16.0 | Yes, Samsung has held its event, and there's a lot, the company announced, before Joe Supan of CNET stops by |
| 0:22.8 | to talk about how AI is heading into the internet to grab obituaries and make money off of them. |
| 0:32.9 | Before we round things out with the AI browser wars, open AI and perplexity, both working on an AI browser. |
| 0:43.7 | Stay tuned for this episode of Tech News Weekly. |
| 0:49.1 | Podcasts you love. |
| 0:51.0 | From people you trust. |
| 0:53.6 | This is Twitter. This is Twitter. |
| 0:57.1 | This is Tech News Weekly, episode 395, with Dan Morin and me, Micah Sargent, recorded Thursday, July 10th, 2025. |
| 1:08.6 | Galaxy Unpacked, Folds, and Flips. Hello and welcome, folds, and flips. |
| 1:13.1 | Hello and welcome to Tech News Weekly, the show where every week we talk to and about |
| 1:17.8 | the people making and breaking that tech news. |
| 1:20.6 | I am your host, Micah Sargent, and I am joined this week by special guest host, Dan Moran. |
| 1:29.9 | Welcome to the show, Dan. |
| 1:31.1 | It's always a pleasure to be here, Micah. |
| 1:32.6 | Thank you for having me on what is always, I assume, a special week if I'm here. |
| 1:36.3 | It is. |
| 1:36.8 | It is indeed a special week if you are here because it is a week that is unlike a typical |
| 1:42.7 | weekend, therefore, it is special. |
| 1:45.0 | Ooh. For people who are tuning in for the first time, or for those of you who have forgotten since last week when we did the show, |
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