Paul Stenhouse: Trump's expected shake up of the tech job market, Apple's OS updates, Meta's AI glasses demo failure

Trump's expected shakeup of the tech job market  

Bloomberg is reporting that President Trump is looking to slap a $100,000 fee on the visa popular with tech firms to access top international talent. The White House claims the visa is being used to undercut American workers and give too many high paying jobs to people from overseas.  

There are 85,000 of these visas available each year and many end up going to the top tech companies, but there is abuse of the system by outsourcing and staffing companies flooding the lottery with duplicate candidates.  

 

Jack Tame's desire for one Apple operating system to rule them all is a step closer  

Having used the latest OS 26 across iPhone, iPad, and Mac, it's clear Apple is converging the design patterns. It feels like we're now just one step away from having a single OS across all devices. On iPad, the multi-tasking is much, much more MacBook like.  

 

Meta had an absolute demo fail live on stage while showing off their AI glasses  

They were trying to show how their AI agent could help you while cooking —it could see the ingredients and help you step by step— but it didn't go to plan. It kept responding with things it wasn't being asked for and the poor 'content creator' paid to do the demo got flustered and blamed the WiFi.  

It wasn't the WiFi, but reason was kind of amusing – when the demo asked "Live AI" to do a thing, every device in the room heard it and all tried to respond at the same time. And worse, because they were all connected to the same internet, all their requests went to the same special demo server only expecting to deal with ONE device. Face palm.  

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:07):
You're listening to the Saturday Morning with Jack Team podcast
from News Talks at be So.

Speaker 2 (00:12):
Meta, at the company that owns Facebook, was trying to
show off their fancy new AI glasses. It's always a
bit dangerous. It's always a bit perilous. There's always an
element of jeopardy when they're doing those live demonstrations of
new products, right because you know that any little mistake
is going to be clipped up and streamed on YouTube. However,
many gazillion times. Anyway, as you can tell that all

(00:34):
went wrong for Meta. Paul Stenhouse is our textpert. He's
got the details.

Speaker 3 (00:37):
Hey Paul, Yeah, are you really happy about this? Because
you know, you tear this is like kind of what
happens on live TV.

Speaker 2 (00:44):
I feel yeah yeah. And when you see you know,
when you see a company like Meta that's worth about
ten times our entire GDP, it's there's a little bit
of shouting forward that comes with it.

Speaker 3 (00:53):
There is and look, they rehearsed it was Mike Zuckerberg.
Even Steel on stage is like, we rehearsed this. So
they were trying to show how these glasses that have
a camera in them and even now a screen that's
the big new development. This little screen in the bottom
corner can summon the Live AI and help you out
when you're cooking, so it can look at the ingredients

(01:14):
and it can help you step by step. And they'd
obviously paid this kind of food content creator guy to
come along and be part of his demos, and you know,
they kicked it over to him and said, go you
good things, show us how it works. And the poor
man just stepped there being like Live AI, show me
what's next, and then really long pauses and then like

(01:36):
show me what's next? Anyway he made he didn't know
how to get out of it, which is, you know,
part of that's the hard thing when you're like live
how do you move on? And you just blamed the
Wi Fi? But it wasn't the Wi Fi. Of course,
it wasn't the Wi Fi. But the answer of why
it wins so wrong was actually kind of musing the
meta CTO kind of gave them behind the scenes details.

(02:00):
And when they asked the Live AI to do a
thing like you would ask sire or you would asked Google,
like you know with the Amazon like your voice assistance,
every device in the room heard it and they all
tried to respond it exactly the same. So when they
were demoing it, they were doing it with themselves or

(02:21):
with like a couple of other people, and it all went.
It's why Mugs said that's always fine. That's because there
weren't all these devices and they had never affected in
or thought about what would happen.

Speaker 2 (02:31):
If it's so funny. I mean that's like if we
if we were to use the name s I RI
I right now, then we would have one hundred thousand
phones around New Zealand or going off at once. I
mean that that is really funny that they hadn't.

Speaker 3 (02:45):
Can they tell you something?

Speaker 2 (02:46):
It is worse because.

Speaker 3 (02:49):
Because they were all connected to the same Wi Fi
and Internet, they had set up a special demo server
and all of those requests went to the special demo
server which was only expecting to ever be connected to
one device, and so it just capitulated.

Speaker 2 (03:03):
It just melted down, melted technology. A Yeah, like I said,
a little bit of shouting for that, I will admit
to that. Hey, Apple has released its new operating systems,
and you can they're a step closer to this one
operating system to rule them all. So one operating system
that will run your phone, your iPad, and your MacBook.

Speaker 3 (03:26):
Yeah, I put it onto my iPad, the new iPad
OS twenty six, and I thought of you, Jack, and
I thought, how much you want one operating system across
all of these? And I thought, we are getting really,
really close. If you've ever used the Mac, in the
top left hand corner, it's got three little kind of
traffic light dots.

Speaker 2 (03:46):
Yeah, those little traffic light dots have.

Speaker 3 (03:47):
Now come to the iPad. The way on the iPad
you can make the windows kind of smaller and drag
them around the screen is much more like a desktop.
And if you've again ever used the Mac, you know
it's got the bar across the top with the name
of the application and file and edit and view and
that type of thing that's also on the iPad. So

(04:09):
like it really is leaned in in this new OS.
This to the multitasking piece. And now that they're all
running Apple Silicon and they're all running the same types
of chips, developers are now starting to create applications that
work across all of them. This next step that they've
taken with OS twenty six, across all of the operating systems,
including the glasses, all looks the same and feels the same.

(04:31):
It's that glassy thing they've been talking about, and it
really does feel like you're just using a different device,
but it all feels so connected. Yeah, for the first time,
it really does feel like one ecosystem. I think, where
maybe only a couple of years. I actually think that's
why they wanted to line up all the numbers, because

(04:53):
they've got iOS twenty six, iPad A watch twenty six.
I think they're just going to call it OS twenty six.

Speaker 2 (04:59):
Yeah, okay, yeah, it doesn't make a lot of sense,
all right. Watch the Space, Thank you, Sir, Paul Stenhouse
is our textbook with us there.

Speaker 1 (05:06):
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