TEH 269: Exploring Apple’s AI Upgrades and the Changing Landscape of Online Search

In This Episode: Exploring Apple’s AI Upgrades and the Changing Landscape of Online Search This week the TEH Podcast is hosted by Leo Notenboom, the “Chief Question Answerer” at Ask Leo!, and Gary Rosenzweig, the host and producer of MacMost, and mobile game developer at Clever Media. Our guest is … (You’ll find longer Bios on the Hosts page.) Top Stories 0:00 GR: Apple WWDC (World Wide Developer Conference) They’ve largely stopped talking about each OS separately 2:25 Golden Gate 4:50 Not liking liquid glass. Rollback on design a bit 6:00 Focus on speed and reaction times 7:50 “Siri AI” Functional AI: Safari tabs, custom Safari extensions, Photo extend/reframe, build a Shortcut, act on files 12:50 Safari Notify me 16:00 Photos 19:20 Shortcuts 22:40 AI privacy 25:00 Splintering of OS features: US, EU, China. 30:00 Release dates 31:20 LN: AI search Google’s announcement: https://blog.google/products-and-platforms/products/search/search-io-2026/  34:00 Switching to ChatGPT 35:50 Kagi 37:00 Control with a question mark 40:40 Results depend on how you phrase your question 41:45 Semi-related: Better search customization coming in Windows 11 (i.e. no Bing, no Store) – https://hothardware.com/news/windows-11-disable-bing-search-single-toggle Ain’t it Cool 43:10 GR: Hacks series finale 44:50 LN: World of Warcraft BSP: Blatant Self-Promotion 46:20 LN: You Can’t Un-Ring a Bell: What Really Happens to Your Data When You Post Anything Online – https://askleo.com/24288 47:50 GR: https://macmost.com/3-ways-to-keep-icloud-files-and-photos-local.html Transcript teh_269 Video https://youtu.be/PEr1RMD3EaA