Tech Pulse 11/10/25

This week on Tech Pulse, we narrate four articles spanning smartphone automation, Silicon Valley rivalry, artificial intelligence in the boardroom, and subscription overload.Apple's Shortcuts app has quietly become one of the most powerful tools on your phone — and a new integration with Apple Intelligence makes it more useful than ever. A writer shows how to build automations that can pull details from messy text and drop them exactly where you need them.Sam Altman explored buying a rocket company that competes directly with Elon Musk's SpaceX. The talks fell apart, but the story reveals just how personal — and how wide-ranging — their rivalry has become.The CEOs of Google, OpenAI, and Microsoft are now openly debating whether AI will eventually run companies. Their answers differ sharply, and the disagreement is worth paying attention to.Seventeen active subscriptions, including three forgotten ones. A columnist's annual financial checkup turned into a practical guide for finding, auditing, and escaping the subscriptions quietly draining your bank account every month.Aftersight is a media organization that serves individuals with barriers to print. This podcast is produced by Aftersight under the Chafee Amendment to the Copyright Act which states that authorized nonprofit organizations whose primary mission is to provide copyrighted works in specialized formats to individuals with barriers to print are exempt. By continuing to listen, you verify you are blind, have low vision, or barriers to reading print materials.