That's Miasma - John Ternus Replacing Tim Cook as Apple CEO

Tim Cook’s surprise departure shakes Apple just as AI and product strategy take center stage, sending big questions through Silicon Valley about what comes next. From Toyota’s camera-filled Woven City to questionable US police tracking and a Signal privacy gap, this episode digs into how quietly surveillance tech is encroaching on daily life. • Toyota Woven City • Tim Cook to become Apple Executive Chairman; John Ternus to become Apple CEO • Continuous glucose monitoring made me continuously crazy • Meta will lay off 10% of its workforce, the company told staff today • Meta projected $16 billion in scam ad revenue. Now the lawsuits are piling up. In another wild turn for AI chips, Meta signs deal for millions of Amazon AI CPUs Google is investing up to $40 billion in a company that is beating Gemini. That is the point. • OpenAI Releases ‘Spud’ GPT-5.5 Model • China’s DeepSeek previews new AI model a year after jolting US rivals Now we know who paid $100,000 to unlock a Sam Altman podcast interview • Scoop: NSA using Anthropic's Mythos despite Defense Department blacklist • Anthropic: No "kill switch" for AI in classified settings • Mozilla Used Anthropic’s Mythos to Find and Fix 271 Bugs in Firefox • Unauthorized group has gained access to Anthropic’s exclusive cyber tool Mythos, report claims • What smart people are saying about SpaceX's $60 billion deal with Cursor: 'The Hunger Games have just begun' • Australia's Teen Social Media Ban Isn't Working. Half Their Teens Still Have Access, Survey Finds • Apple fixes bug that cops used to extract deleted chat messages from iPhones • Nevada Police Can Now Track Cellphones Without a Warrant • Brussels launched an age checking app. Hackers took 2 minutes to break it • ‘Scattered Spider’ Member ‘Tylerb’ Pleads Guilty • Iran claims US used backdoors in networking equipment • The Onion has agreed to a new deal to take over Infowars • ‘Hairdryer used to trick weather sensor’ to win $34,000 bet • To buy this Bay Area home, you’ll need Anthropic equity | TechCrunch • This Alberta Startup Sells No-Tech Tractors for Half Price • The Hottest Phone for Kids Right Now Is a $100 Landline • This pasta sauce wants to record your family Host: Leo Laporte Guests: Sam Abuelsamid, Victoria Song, and Stacey Higginbotham This Week in Tech episode 1081 More Info: https://twit.tv/shows/this-week-in-tech/episodes/1081 Sponsors: • http://box.com/AI • http://doppel.com • http://meter.com/twit • Simply CX • http://rippling.com/twit Download or subscribe to This Week in Tech at https://twit.tv/shows/this-week-in-tech Join Club TWiT for Ad-Free Podcasts! Support what you love and get ad-free audio and video feeds, a members-only Discord, and exclusive content. Join today: https://twit.tv/clubtwit Products we recommend: https://www.amazon.com/shop/twitnetcastnetwork TWiT may earn commissions on certain products. Follow us: Website: https://twit.tv/ Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/twit.tv Mastodon: https://mastodon.social/@TWiT Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TWiTNetwork Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/twit.tv/ X (Twitter): https://x.com/TWiT TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@twittok LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/twit-llc #toyota #timcook #apple About us: TWiT.tv is a technology podcasting network located in the San Francisco Bay Area with the #1 ranked technology podcast This Week in Tech hosted by Leo Laporte. Every week we produce dozens of hours of content on a variety of programs including Tech News Weekly, MacBreak Weekly, Windows Weekly, Security Now, Intelligent Machines, and more.