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EPISODE · Jun 26, 2026 · 19 MIN

Chip Crisis Escalates: Apple's Price Hike & AI's Rabies Rabbit Hole

from synthszr · host Matthias Schrader

Apple's boosting prices on Macs and iPads as chip costs explode, while Chinese AI models quietly penetrate Western markets through AWS. Meanwhile, a Reddit community of 45,000 is deliberately poisoning AI training data with absurd misinformation—and it's actually working, as DuckDuckGo's search engine recently proved by telling users that Trump died of rabies.

Apple's boosting prices on Macs and iPads as chip costs explode, while Chinese AI models quietly penetrate Western markets through AWS. Meanwhile, a Reddit community of 45,000 is deliberately poisoning AI training data with absurd misinformation—and it's actually working, as DuckDuckGo's search engine recently proved by telling users that Trump died of rabies.

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