TNW 404: iPhone Air First Impressions - Hands-On With the AirPods Pro 3 and iPhone Air
Tech News Weekly (Audio)
Leo Laporte
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🗓️ 11 September 2025
⏱️ 80 minutes
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Summary
Jacob Ward of The Rip Current podcast and newsletter joins Mikah Sargent this week! The impact that generative AI is having on energy and our climate. The privacy and social issues around AI wearables. And everything that was announced at Apple's 'Awe Dropping' event.
- Jacob shares a paper published recently that covered generative AI and how the massive use of GPU energy is causing concerns about its impact on the climate.
- Mikah talks about a new wearable AI companion device called Friend and how these always-listening devices present privacy challenges for not just others around the user but also for the company itself.
- And Zac Hall of 9to5Mac was at Apple's 'Awe Dropping' event this past Tuesday and was fortunate to get his hands on the new hardware the company announced. He shares his initial thoughts on the new AirPods Pro 3 and iPhone Air!
Hosts: Mikah Sargent and Jacob Ward
Guest: Zac Hall
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| 0:00.0 | Coming up on Tech News Weekly, journalist Jacob Ward joins me as co-host this month. |
| 0:06.6 | Jacob kicks off by talking about the cost of diffusion-based generative AI. |
| 0:14.0 | And then I talk about those wearable AI devices that are always listening in Wired's recent review and hatred of those AI |
| 0:23.9 | devices. Afterwards, Zach Hall of 9 to 5 Mac stops by. Zach was there in person at Apple's |
| 0:29.4 | all-dropping event, so we cover everything that Apple announced, plus stuff you might have missed |
| 0:35.7 | because it came off stage at the event and later on. |
| 0:41.2 | Stay tuned for this episode of Tech News Weekly. |
| 0:46.3 | Podcasts you love. |
| 0:48.1 | From people you trust. |
| 0:50.6 | This is Twitter. |
| 0:54.2 | This is Tech News Weekly, episode 404 with Jake Ward and me, Micah Sargent, recorded Thursday, |
| 1:01.5 | September 11th, 2025. |
| 1:04.1 | iPhone Air First Impressions. |
| 1:07.6 | Hello, and welcome to Tech News Weekly, the show where every week we talk to and about the people making and breaking that tech news. |
| 1:14.8 | I'm your host, Micah Sargent, and we have something new, someone new today. |
| 1:20.4 | Joining us, who will be joining us going forward as one of our regular co-hosts on the show. |
| 1:28.2 | Welcome, though, to Tech News Weekly for the first time, Jake Ward. |
| 1:33.3 | What's up? |
| 1:34.2 | Great to be with you. |
| 1:35.1 | I'm really excited to be here. |
| 1:36.2 | I was so flattered when you reached out, and I, yeah, excited to be part of the rotation. |
| 1:40.3 | Yeah, me too. |
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