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Sep 17, 2026
Nilay PatelHOST
You mentioned open AI models running on, on local computers doing things, and maybe that's horrible.
Nilay PatelHOST
W- we've seen a lot of that, right? Apple is selling a lot of Mac Studios and Mac Minis so you can run Quinn on them.
Nilay PatelHOST
Where would you impose the regulation on an open model running on someone's local computer? Is it at the chip level? Do I have to get Qualcomm to participate? Where does that happen?
Mustafa SuleymanGUEST
Yeah, this is a great question.
Andrew HeatonHOST
And a lot of those headlines are fights over AI.
Andrew HeatonHOST
Begging the question, what are they fighting about exactly? When I hear things like, Anthropic pushes back on OpenAI's Q security protocol, what the hell does that mean? Who is fighting who? What are the battle lines here that I'm meant to care about? When I was a kid, the big tech fight was Microsoft versus Macintosh.
Andrew HeatonHOST
And it pretty much boiled down to, do you like Windows 98? Or...
Andrew HeatonHOST
Do you derive fundamental elements of your personality from Apple products because Steve Jobs looks cool in a turtleneck? And then you put Apple logos on the back of your computer because you want to advertise their products for free under the mistaken belief that computer hardware plus corporate branding constitutes some kind of community.
Brad GeigerHOST
And I was super fast.
Brad GeigerHOST
I was I was Macintosh computers were new then and desktop computing was just starting to become a thing.
Brad GeigerHOST
And I picked that stuff up faster than you can imagine.
Brad GeigerHOST
Having a dead daily deadline is a great way to learn things quickly, too, if you know what I mean.
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This is Mac OS Ken.
Ken RayHOST
Weighing weights for iPhones, Twitter's got some splainin' to do, and developer betas are out for... 27.2? It is Thursday, the 17th of September, 2026.
Ken RayHOST
I'm Ken Rea, and this is News from Mac OS Ken, brought to you by yours truly and sponsored by CleanMyMac, keeping Macs running smoothly since 2008.
Ken RayHOST
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Ken RayHOST
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Darrell EvesGUEST
There's more than you could ever imagine.
Darrell EvesGUEST
And then ultimately, you know, I've been on the forefront, you know, getting an Apple II from the beginning and then a Macintosh and kind of doing this whole thing.
Darrell EvesGUEST
But when I got the Macintosh, Mac paint was like one of the coolest things ever because it was a GUI interface and it's the first time you could actually really draw something and paint.
Darrell EvesGUEST
And I'd spent hours on it.
Darrell EvesGUEST
And so the next iteration of that is when two brothers, Jonathan Knoll and his brother, I can't remember his brother's name.
Aaron TilleyCORRESPONDENT
Um, we have heard that it, it is, will be a collection of M8 Ultra chips.
Aaron TilleyCORRESPONDENT
This is their, this is their, uh, you know, ultra high-end chip that they put into their Mac Studio products currently, but they're looking to connect these, uh, uh, multiple versions of these chips into a, uh, single server.
Akash PasrichaHOST
And again, basic questions here 'cause I'm not a data center expert here.
Akash PasrichaHOST
So these M8 chips, w- would they then basically be competitive with GPUs, TPUs, you know, uh, these AI chips that we talk about on the show? Are, are these a different class of, of servers or are they basically competitive?
Akash PasrichaHOST
Apple, uh, has not traditionally been, uh, you know, a, a, a B2B company necessarily, d- uh, you know, if you put aside outfitting all these o- offices with [laughs], with, uh, computers and stuff.
Akash PasrichaHOST
So why, what, what's the strategy here, do you think?
Aaron TilleyCORRESPONDENT
Um, so they've really seen this insane, unpredi- uh, uh, this, uh, uh, unexpected surge of demand for their Mac computers, their Mac Minis, and their Mac Studios.
Aaron TilleyCORRESPONDENT
These are, like, contained box-like, um, computers that people are really, uh, buying up, like, like, like nothing else for, for AI applications.
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Jason SnellSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
that this is Macworld Expo and there aren't any Macs.
Jason SnellSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
But you could also look at it and say the two products that Steve Jobs showed at the keynote were Mac technologies rolled into consumer electronics products.
Roman LoyolaHOST
So the person who was mainly speaking there was Rob Griffiths, who was a editor here at Macworld.
Roman LoyolaHOST
And the person responding was Jason Snell, who was the editor-in-chief of Macworld at the time.
Roman LoyolaHOST
The reason why I picked that clip in particular was because I think we tend to forget that at one point, a very long part of Apple's history, Apple was just Macs.
Jason CrossHOST
Yeah.
Jason CrossHOST
And Mac accessories, like you would think an iPod wasn't like, we were used to that, but that wasn't a whole operating system, a whole thing.
Jaeden SchaferHOST
And one of the big reasons is because Apple, I don't know if it was accidentally or however you want to say it, but the hardware of Apple has been greatly used.
Jaeden SchaferHOST
And I think one of the big examples a lot of people will point to is when OpenClock came out, basically everyone was running out to go buy a whole stack of Mac minis.
Jaeden SchaferHOST
that they were running OpenClaw agents on.
Jaeden SchaferHOST
Now, I think that Mac Mini craze was kind of short-lived.
Jaeden SchaferHOST
It was kind of a quick moment.
Jaeden SchaferHOST
Obviously, the Mac Mini is just a great product.
Jaeden SchaferHOST
And so I think a lot of people would just use it as a good computer.
Jaeden SchaferHOST
But I think Apple did see a very real, very large explosion in sales because of that.
Dave MorinGUEST
And within, like, less than, I don't know, 12 hours, I had this feeling that I hadn't felt since I was a little kid.
Dave MorinGUEST
When I was, like, seven years old, my grandfather gave me a Macintosh computer.
Dave MorinGUEST
And...
Dave MorinGUEST
when he put it on my desk and I turned it on and I started using it, I had this just feeling that I could create anything and that it was mine.
Dave MorinGUEST
And it was this powerful tool that like, I mean, it blew my mind.
Dave MorinGUEST
I mean, in a way it set the chart, it charted the course for the rest of my life.
Dave MorinGUEST
Like that Macintosh computer became the thing that I created art on, right? And to this day, it's like, you know, it's still the tool that's with me everywhere I go.
Julian WeisserHOST
The original one? Yes.
Jaden SchaeferHOST
And one of the big reasons is because Apple, I don't know if it was accidentally or however you want to say it, but the hardware of Apple has been greatly used.
Jaden SchaeferHOST
And I think one of the big examples a lot of people will point to is when OpenClock came out, basically everyone was running out to go buy a whole stack of Mac minis.
Jaden SchaeferHOST
that they were running OpenClaw agents on.
Jaden SchaeferHOST
Now, I think that Mac Mini craze was kind of short-lived.
Jaden SchaeferHOST
It was kind of a quick moment.
Jaden SchaeferHOST
Obviously, the Mac Mini is just a great product.
Jaden SchaeferHOST
And so I think a lot of people would just use it as a good computer.
Jaden SchaeferHOST
But I think Apple did see a very real, very large explosion in sales because of that.
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