How poisoned "sleeper agent" open-weight LLMs can be triggered by a "magic word" or phrase to steal your keys, No Internet without ID, expanded Apple developer account terminations, copycat apps, name squatting, and new App Store requirements for content moderation of AI-generated images. Plus, Drew pulls apps from the store and shares lessons learned building for Voice Control, Dan diagnoses diving app impressions and talks about Vapor 5, and good old Claude breaks the rules, again.

Chapters:

• 00:00 Welcome!
• 01:30 No Internet without ID
• 08:23 Character AI: A cautionary tale
• 13:54 Apple's crackdown
• 14:10 Developer account terminations
• 21:09 Drew pulls 8+ apps from the App Store
• 21:40 App name squatting
• 23:24 Drew pulls more apps
• 28:40 A lesson in building for Voice Control
• 32:50 Removing apps in bundles
• 34:34 Hidden features and copycat rules
• 35:34 Violation of the Developer Code of Conduct
• 48:48 Dan’s Midst impressions plummet - why?
• 57:15 Vapor 5 beta
• 01:02:16 Siri… as a coding assistant?
• 01:10:26 Poisoned Sleeper Agent LLMs
• 01:22:06 “Just use trusted models”
• 01:27:29 Do not flip the airplane upside down
• 01:31:04 Content moderation in AI image gen apps
• 01:33:41 Thanks everyone!

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Mentioned in this episode:

• Apple App Review Guidelines Change Tracker
• Character AI
• No ID = No Internet
• Adam Lyttle - Apple crackdown
• Poisoning LLM weights

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