MacVoices #26235: Live! - Hollywood’s AI Future, Microsoft’s Super App, and Apple’s Quiet Strategy

The MacVoices Live! panel examines Microsoft’s aggressive Copilot expansion, comparing its enterprise integration with ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini while contrasting corporate and academic AI adoption. AI’s growing role in IT support, productivity, and Hollywood filmmaking, Apple’s quieter AI strategy, and concerns over creativity versus automation are all on the agenda. The absurdity of some tech news has the panel looking at Russia’s iPhone demands and a stolen Nicolas Cage film hard drive.  MacVoices is supported by CleanMyMac from MacPaw. Get Tidy Today! Try 7 days free and use my code MACVOICES20 for 20% off at http://clnmy.com/MACVOICES Show Notes: Chapters: 00:00 Microsoft Copilot frustrations and the lingering Copilot vulnerability08:12 Microsoft’s AI super app and enterprise integration19:03 Enterprise vs. education approaches to AI adoption31:15 Apple’s AI strategy compared to Microsoft’s approach37:56 AI’s growing influence in Hollywood filmmaking49:08 Creative storytelling, superhero franchises, and AI-generated entertainment58:18 Russia’s iPhone app demands and Apple’s response01:01:10 Netflix hard drive theft and Nicolas Cage discussion01:05:42 Panelist projects, upcoming appearances, and closing remarks Links: Microsoft Copilot’s ‘Word worm’ still works 144 days after disclosure https://thenextweb.com/news/microsoft-copilot-word-worm-prompt-injection-super-app   Microsoft is merging its Copilots into one AI super apphttps://thenextweb.com/news/microsoft-copilot-super-app-nadella-consumer-enterprise   ‘Everyone Is Doing It’: The Truth About AI in Hollywoodhttps://www.wired.com/story/the-big-interview-podcast-matthew-belloni-puck/   EU announces new rules on AI transparency – Engadgethttps://www.engadget.com/2228894/eu-announces-new-rules-on-ai-transparency/   Anthropic says its AI models also hacked three organizations on their own – Engadget https://www.engadget.com/2227630/anthropic-ai-models-hacked-three-organizations-on-their-own/   The Kremlin Keeps Trying to Crack Down on Apple, Even Though They Don’t Sell the iPhone There! https://www.mactrast.com/2026/08/the-kremlin-keeps-trying-to-crack-down-on-apple-even-though-they-dont-sell-the-iphone-there/   Man invested $45M in a Nicolas Cage movie. It got stolen off Netflix’s desk. https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/07/man-invested-45m-in-a-nicolas-cage-movie-it-got-stolen-off-netflixs-desk/ Guests: Get detailed bios and contact information about for the panel on the MacVoices Live! Panel page on our web site:https://macvoices.com/macvoiceslive/macvoices-live-panel/ Support:      Become a MacVoices Patron on Patreon     http://patreon.com/macvoices      Enjoy this episode? Make a one-time donation with PayPal Connect:      Web:     http://macvoices.com      Twitter:     http://www.twitter.com/chuckjoiner     http://www.twitter.com/macvoices      Mastodon:     https://mastodon.cloud/@chuckjoiner      Facebook:     http://www.facebook.com/chuck.joiner      MacVoices Page on Facebook:     http://www.facebook.com/macvoices/      MacVoices Group on Facebook:     http://www.facebook.com/groups/macvoice      LinkedIn:     https://www.linkedin.com/in/chuckjoiner/      Instagram:     https://www.instagram.com/chuckjoiner/ Subscribe:      Audio in iTunes     Video in iTunes      Subscribe manually via iTunes or any podcatcher:      Audio: http://www.macvoices.com/rss/macvoicesrss      Video: http://www.macvoices.com/rss/macvoicesvideorss