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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Finding Drew:

• Bluesky
• X / Twitter
• YouTube
• Github

Finding Dan:

• Bluesky
• Instagram
• Dan’s Certainly Swift blog

Mentioned in this episode:

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

Drew and Dan in the Morning can be found on:

• Apple Podcasts
• Spotify
• YouTube
• Overcast
• Deezer
• DrewAndDan.fm

Claude’s hang-up, Nvidia / Hugging Face news, Press Kits in depth, building with Kickstart or Claude, when to send, and clipping campaigns. Vitamin B2 - Riboflavin!

Chapters

• 00:00 Welcome!
• 00:10 Riboflavin linked to lower dementia risk
• 01:01 Nvidia buys Hugging Face
• 02:20 Why you NEED a press kit
• 04:16 Mercury Weather's press kit
• 06:37 Building with Kickstart and hosting hurdles
• 09:06 Building a press kit with Claude
• 11:34 People don't browse for apps anymore
• 12:31 When to send your press kit
• 16:18 Clipping campaigns and influencer marketing
• 18:58 Claude can hang up on you

Finding Drew:

• Bluesky
• X / Twitter
• YouTube
• Github

Finding Dan:

• Bluesky
• Instagram
• Dan’s Certainly Swift blog

Mentioned in this episode:

• How to Make an App Press Kit
• Mercury Weather Press Kit
• Kickstart Press Kit
• PhotoCal AI Press Kit
• The Midst Press Kit
• Riboflavin Cuts Dementia Risk by Half

Drew and Dan in the Morning can be found on:

• Apple Podcasts
• Spotify
• YouTube
• Overcast
• Deezer

NYC ditches AI in classrooms, Anthropic quietly watermarks Claude's every word and code it writes, and Dyson wants $499 to let a camera into your mouth. Drew and Dan dig a little to get a better sense of who Apple’s new CEO, John Ternus, really is. (Drew has a list of bugs waiting for him!) Is the Apple Upgrade (lease) program with Klarna a bait-and-switch? The AI boom turned a $5K Mac Studio into an $11K one.

Chapters

• 00:00 Welcome
• 00:26 NYC Schools Ban Generative AI
• 04:00 Anthropic Watermarks Claude Text
• 11:05 Does AI Use Count as Research?
• 16:36 Why Students Still Need Fundamentals
• 21:00 Dyson's $499 AI Toothbrush
• 24:16 Meet New Apple CEO John Ternus
• 29:11 Hopes for Hardware-First Apple
• 33:36 Apple's Nagging Software Bugs
• 44:56 Foldable Phone and Touchscreen Mac Rumors
• 53:43 Klarna Lease Denial Mystery
• 1:00:42 AI Boom Inflates Hardware Prices

Finding Drew:

• Bluesky
• X / Twitter
• YouTube
• Github

Finding Dan:

• Bluesky
• Instagram
• Dan’s Certainly Swift blog

Mentioned in this episode:

• NYC public schools bans AI
• Ctrl-Alt-Speech Podcast
• Anthropic text watermarking
• Dyson CameraJet
• John Ternus 1993 High School pic
• Klarna Apple Leasing issues

Drew and Dan in the Morning can be found on:

• Apple Podcasts
• Spotify
• YouTube
• Overcast
• Deezer