Discussion on User Agents, ROAS.txt, and Company Behavior

• Pre-show:
  • Casey’s lunchtime soundtrack
  • New member’s special: iPod Tier List
• Follow-up:
  • Is the genesis of the red/black U2 iPod How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb (via Brian Hamilton)
  • An additional “feature” of the U2 iPods (via Max Velasco Knott)
  • One EU citizen’s perspective on DMA (via Nicolai Brunvoll Ernst)
  • Suggestions for “Brexit”-style colloquialisms for Apple leaving the EU
    • iQuit (via Oliver Thomas)
    • iLeave (via Jared Counts)
    • AXiT (via Frederik Björeman)
  • CarPlay audio
    • New version of Casey’s dongle
  • Using AirPods Pro as hearing protection (via Kirk Northrop)
  • Apple is using Google Cloud infrastructure to train/serve AI
    • AxLearn
    • AxLearn Infrastructure
• Apple’s “Help Me Choose” Wizard
  • Giulio Montagner discovers the dark truth
  • A PCI Express break-out box compatible with Apple Silicon Macs
• AI Training & Data Rights
  • John Voorhees from MacStories
  • Protecting MacStories from AI Bots
  • OpenAI and Anthropic are ignoring robots.txt as well
    • robots.txt
  • MJ Tsai roundup
  • Perplexity CEO doesn’t really seem to care
  • Microsoft’s AI boss actively doesn’t care about your feelings
• Google Zero
• Music industry giants cry copyright foul on AI firms
  • The Verge
  • Andy Baio
    • 404 Media
  • The RIAA versus AI, explained
• Figma pulls AI tool after it apes Apple’s design
• I Made This - John’s post about AI and the act of creation
• Monkey selfie copyright dispute
• Post-show: John’s Mac Pro[blems]
• Members-only ATP Overtime: Apple’s Vision Pro plans
  • Gurman’s take
  • Jason’s take

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