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SED News: Apple’s AI Problem, The Real Business Model of AI, and Token Cost Reckoning

aired Jun 09, 2026 · 51.0m
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Summary

And I'm Sean Falkner. And I'm sure as many of you know, this is a different format of SED Daily, released monthly, where we touch on the main tech headlines from mainstream news we go into a bigger topic in the middle but of debate in there and then go to hacker news at the end and highlight some of our favorite things that have been posted as usual we like to just catch up with each other sean i usually having quite

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Key takeaways
  1. 01And a lot of the last almost decade at this point is really just like, just keep this thing running at optimum efficiency
  2. 02So it's not shocking, even though they were slow moving compared to OpenAI on really monetizing and doing a lot around large language models
  3. 03and we've talked about this in terms of disruption to like e-commerce for example going directly to an e-commerce website versus just navigating to it through a chat gpt or somethi
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