Enjoy the latest episodes from MacStories’ family of podcasts:

This week, Federico and John attempt to clear up confusion about MacStories’ position on AI web crawlers before rethinking email apps in light of the update to Apple’s Mail app coming this fall.

On AppStories+, Federico and John preview their fall review research setups and consider the impact of Apple Intelligence on the Shortcuts app.

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On Ruminate, I tried a pork rind and then we get into the drama of the week: AI.

AppStories, Episode 392 Show Notes

AI Follow-Up

• How We’re Trying to Protect MacStories from AI Bots and Web Crawlers – And How You Can, Too
• Wired Confirms Perplexity Is Bypassing Efforts by Websites to Block Its Web Crawler

Rethinking Email

• Apps Discussed
  • MimeStream
  • Spark
  • Superhuman
  • Missive
  • Shortwave

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On AppStories+, John shares a long list of observations and tidbits from his week at Apple Park for WWDC.

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Ruminate, Episode 187 Show Notes

• Perplexity.ai’s Wikipedia page starring Robb
• Clyde Cooper’s Barbecue
• Gochujang | Kettle Brand®
• Perplexity AI Is Lying about Their User Agent
• Perplexity AI is lying about their user agent on Hacker News
• Perplexity Is a Bullshit Machine
• On Robots and Text
• There’s Something Deeply Wrong With Perplexity
• How to stop Perplexity and save the web from bad AI
• Perplexity Plagiarized Our Story About How Perplexity Is a Bullshit Machine

MacStories launched its first podcast in 2017 with AppStories. Since then, the lineup has expanded to include a family of weekly shows that also includes MacStories Unwind, Magic Rays of Light, Ruminate, Comfort Zone, and NPC: Next Portable Console that collectively, cover a broad range of the modern media world from Apple’s streaming service and videogame hardware to apps for a growing audience that appreciates our thoughtful, in-depth approach to media.

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