WWDC Reactions, Claude Fable 5 Debuts, McAfee Eyes ESPN Mega Deal | Diet TBPN

TL;DR

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  Tim Cook's Apple era gets bookended by Siri: TBPN points out that Siri debuted at Cook's first WWDC in 2011, Steve Jobs died the next day, and now Cook's possible final WWDC closes with Siri finally becoming genuinely useful after 14 to 15 years.

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  Apple's biggest WWDC signal may have been parenting, not AI: In a short keynote, Apple spent about 12 minutes on child safety and parental controls, including age protections, Ask to Browse, and contact approvals, which the hosts read as Apple quietly responding to phone anxiety without fear-based messaging.

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  The Siri rumor fight was really about how open Apple will get: Mark Gurman reported Siri would work with rival assistants like Gemini and Claude, John Gruber said Apple did not fully announce that, and TBPN's take is that power users mostly want the Siri button to permanently route to their model of choice instead of playing telephone with ChatGPT.

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  Claude Fable 5 sounds built for marathon inference: The hosts cite pricing at $10 per million input tokens and $50 per million output tokens, with early testers saying it can run for nine hours or even all weekend without getting confused.

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  Meta is literally training people to build the AI buildout: Its new five-week Workforce Academy, run with CBRE and Associated Builders, is free, promises a job, and arrives after 8,000 layoffs, which TBPN jokes is the 'learn to weld' meme becoming real policy.

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  Pat McAfee keeps turning creator scale into TV power: ESPN is reportedly discussing a new contract north of $60 million per year, with TBPN noting his unusual setup where the first two hours of his daily show air on ESPN and all three hours stay on YouTube.