September 20, 2025 • 59 mins
Welcome to The JMOR Tech Talk Show, where global headlines meet expert analysis and every story offers a new perspective. I'm John C. Morley, your host—serial entrepreneur, engineer, video producer, marketing specialist, keynote speaker, podcast host and coach, graduate student, and passionate lifelong learner. This week, each major event deserves a closer look—here’s what’s on deck:
1️⃣ The United States is weighing a ban on Chinese-made drones and trucks, a move that could drastically reshape the global tech supply chain. The conversation centers on national security and trade dynamics, raising tension between tech giants and world powers as future regulations and partnerships hang in the balance.
2️⃣ In a decisive crackdown, Russia has blocked access to WhatsApp and YouTube, signaling a significant pivot toward digital isolationism. This sudden change has forced millions to find new ways to communicate, altering the social and informational landscape for everyday Russians and digital businesses worldwide.
3️⃣ As part of this digital crackdown, Russian citizens must now adapt to a suite of Kremlin-approved platforms. The government's push raises concerns over freedom, privacy, and innovation in a space previously dominated by global technology leaders, testing how citizens interact with technology under heightened surveillance.
4️⃣ Warner Bros is shaking up the entertainment and tech industry by suing various AI companies for using Superman and Scooby-Doo without permission. This historic legal battle could set precedents on creative rights and define how intellectual property is protected in an age of generative AI.
5️⃣ In a landmark settlement, AI powerhouse Anthropic has agreed to pay $1.5 billion over book piracy claims. This unprecedented payout not only emphasizes the growing responsibilities of tech giants to creators and authors but also signals a new era of accountability in artificial intelligence.
6️⃣ After a tragic incident involving a teen, parents have taken OpenAI to court, spotlighting the urgent need for better safety protocols in AI. The lawsuit intensifies a national debate on how companies design and monitor AI's impact on vulnerable populations, especially our youth.
7️⃣ Meta has halted its AI from engaging in suicide-prevention chats with teens, a move that opens up a heated debate about liability, digital mental health, and the right boundaries for tech’s intervention in sensitive conversations. Where should the line be drawn, and are companies doing enough?
8️⃣ Education is on the brink of transformation as Khan Academy pilots AI-powered classrooms. This leap forward in personalized learning could set the standard for schools worldwide—offering tailored curriculums, instant feedback, and more engaging experiences for students and teachers alike.
9️⃣ Far beneath the surface, Red Sea cable cuts have disrupted Microsoft Azure and global cloud traffic, leaving tech infrastructures vulnerable. The incident exposes how fragile—and essential—our underground digital backbone is to daily operations and international business.
🔟 In a stunning cyberattack, Jaguar Land Rover was forced to shut down multiple factories, stopping production lines and sending shockwaves through the entire automotive supply chain. This breach highlights the mounting risk industries face and the urgent need for reinforced cyber defenses.
1️⃣1️⃣ Germany has unveiled Europe’s fastest supercomputer, redefining speed records and repositioning the country as a power player in research, simulation, and AI advancement. The launch demonstrates bold commitment to scientific discovery and technological frontier-building in the modern age.
1️⃣2️⃣ The US Securities and Exchange Commission is planning sweeping new crypto regulations, signaling a massive shakeup for digital currencies and fintech. The proposed changes could elevate transparency and security—but also unsettle markets used to minimal oversight.
1️⃣3️⃣ Nepal’s government has blocked Facebook, igniting a passionate debate over digital rights and freedom of expression. Citizens and activists are now challenging lawmakers on the global stage to reconsider how nations balance control and connectivity.
1️⃣4️⃣ In the corridors of power, Trump is gathering top tech CEOs for a high-profile Rose Garden dinner. This exclusive event could usher in policy shifts affecting social media, cybersecurity, and AI, with implications that ripple far beyond the White House.
Subtitle: Techquake Unleashed: Power Moves, AI Showdowns, and the Global Future on Edge
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(00:08):
Hi everyone, I'm John Seymour, the host of
The JMOR Tech Talk Show and Inspirations
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And it is TechQuake, Ban Hacks and AI
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So without any further ado, guys, let's get
started, okay?
All right, well, welcome to the Jay Moore
Tech Talk Show, where global headlines meet expert
(02:38):
analysis and every story offers a new perspective.
Hey, guys, who am I?
I am John C.
Moore, your host, serial entrepreneur, engineer, video producer,
marketing specialist, keynote speaker, podcast host and coach,
graduate student, and of course, a passionate lifelong
(02:58):
learner.
This week, each major event deserves, well, a
closer look.
And here's what's on deck, all right?
But before I get into the official things,
I want to share something that's a little
bit off the cuff, maybe you're expecting it.
So today being September 19th show, I want
(03:23):
to let you know that I got my
brand new iPhone 17 Pro Max right here.
And I thought I would give you a
little taste about what it was like.
Here's my iPhone 16 Pro Max.
So first of all, I got the phone
a few days ago, I actually had upgraded
my iPhone 16 Pro Max to 26.0
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iOS, because I figured that having the latest
iOS was going to be what the new
phone wanted, and it would make the upgrade
process very smooth.
I would have thought.
So I got the new phone, I did
an unboxing video, I also put together another
video about how to actually do the migration
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process.
And then there's another video that I'll be
doing about my review of the phone.
All right, so again, got the phone, unboxed
it, I got the deep blue, there's only
three colors, it's basically the orange, the deep
blue and the gray.
So I got the phone and you turn
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it on and it was probably a little
more than half charged around that.
And so I knew that I could do
the migration phone to phone, just having them
close to each other and using its Wi
-Fi back and forth or the Bluetooth, so
I was able to do that.
And so I had followed what I normally
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do.
And the way you do it is you
get to the point that it asks you
if you want to set up your phone
from another phone, you choose that option.
And then basically what you have to do
is you're basically scanning the QR code that
comes on the screen.
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And then you scan the QR code.
And so what happens is it trips to
one phone, the other phone, you read the
QR code and then you're able to basically
proceed with the next step.
It asks you if you're setting up for
a minor, a child, et cetera.
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So you answer those couple of questions.
And then after that, you know, it's going
to ask you, you're going to have to
connect to a network that comes in the
process.
So you have to connect to a network.
So I connected to my Wi-Fi network.
My Wi-Fi network is really severely locked
down on purpose.
So other people don't just join the network
without being allowed.
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And so one of the things I use
is Mac filtering.
So what I could have done is actually
went into my router and just enabled the
Mac address for this new iPhone 17 Pro
Max.
But I want to show people what happens.
So I remember having this phone today.
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And what I did was I didn't enable
the Mac address.
When I got to the part where I
connected to the network.
And so whenever you go to the Wi
-Fi screen and you're on a Wi-Fi
screen of the other phone, you can basically
choose to share the password.
So that was pretty straightforward.
And so, again, I've done this many times
(06:36):
before.
And so I figured, you know, I'm going
to have the latest OS.
It's going to be great.
So what I noticed is that the new
phone did not come with 26 point.
Oh, and I was like, oh, great.
So they made this big push that, you
know, it was going to have it, but
it really didn't.
So it had like the 18.1 or
18.2. So what did it have to
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do when it checked my phone and saw
that it had the 26?
Well, it actually needed to upgrade, which was
fine.
But I would have thought the phone would
have come with itself already at 26 point.
So after it finished the upgrade and doing
the reboot, it then, you know, basically, I
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thought would have proceeded with the transfer of
the files.
Wrong.
I had to then initiate the transfer again.
And the funny thing is it never said
that it failed.
So you just had to know that it
didn't go through by looking at your phone
and the screen and stuff like that.
So I did that.
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And this time the network was activated.
So it worked.
And so it took, it said it was
15 minutes was the estimated.
It actually took about maybe 10 and a
half minutes.
So it went pretty fast for 500 and
some gigabytes, which is pretty good.
So once all that was completed, the next
thing that was a little funny was the
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activation of the SIM.
So there's no SIM in this phone, which
is subscriber identification module.
There's something called an electronic subscriber identification module,
not just a SIM, which used to be
a chip you put from one phone to
the other phone.
That's how we used to do it.
So what happened was you normally would activate
the SIM over the Wi-Fi and that'd
be good to go.
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Now, about six months ago, I activated a
phone for a client and that phone did
not activate.
I had to call them or follow the
steps to, you know, activate it through their
automated system.
OK, so now I called them to do
the activation.
They were closed.
I could use the automated system.
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It was a little convoluted.
You had to go through a couple of
menus and then you press the option and
they confirmed it and all that.
And then once that happened, the next thing
that happened was it went through and basically
it said it was complete.
I powered off the phone, powered it back
on.
Within four or five minutes, I had a
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working cell phone for, you know, data and,
you know, for cell phone calls.
And then I was able to enable the
feature for, you know, cellular wireless calling.
So, you know, calls over wireless, they call
it.
And so I did that.
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But here was the funny part.
Everything came over except for a couple of
things.
So first thing was.
I had to go to my phone and
I had to make sure that I had
unpaired my one particular app I use for
the security to talk to my U.S.
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Treasury services at one of my banks.
And so I unpaired it because the last
time I did this, no one explained that
you had to unpair it or that you
could just remove it.
You had it.
So I went in there, I unpaired it
and that was pretty smooth.
I logged back in and then it just
sent me a temporary passcode to my email.
I scanned the QR code and that was
really simple.
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I actually had gotten a warning a couple
of days ago when I was doing to
do an ACH transfer.
I got this warning that if you're getting
a new phone, make sure you unpair, which
is great.
They had that little warning there, but I
kind of was aware of what was going
to go on.
So I knew to do that.
Next, my emails.
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So when it transferred everything over and then
the emails were getting read, it was reading
them from the beginning of time.
It didn't know the exact point where my
other phone was.
It should have brought exactly there, but it
didn't.
So I figured no big deal.
I'll just delete the emails.
Okay, fine.
I can delete emails one by one by
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one and select them.
I could not select all that feature, even
though it says it's there, it's not there.
There seems to be a bug that you
cannot just delete things.
So deleting a couple hundred emails takes a
few minutes.
Deleting 700 emails, well, that takes a lot
longer.
So that's a bug.
There was another little nuance that I store
(11:15):
over 30, 40 two-factor authentications in Microsoft
Authenticator.
I had backed them up, but there were
some settings that were not getting enabled.
So I had to go in and check
that.
And then I could actually recover my Microsoft
Authenticator account because to put in 40 some
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accounts by hand, that's not easy.
I would have to go to every single
service provider that I had two-factor authentications
with.
You're talking about things like Power Company, certain
website logins, Slack, etc.
That would have taken me, if there are
40, it could have taken me maybe 10
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minutes for each one.
That's a lot of time, guys.
10 minutes and I had 40 of them,
right?
10 times 40, 400 minutes.
So 400 minutes divided by 60, that would
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have taken me over six hours.
So I said, no, we are not doing
this.
And so got that to work.
And then I also had to add this
app back on for my school.
And that worked really simply, no problem.
But Apple has never been very transparent with
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their upgrades.
If you didn't upgrade your other phones, well,
it would have a big problem.
Now, they're forcing an upgrade and they don't
have enough smarts to actually go back and
continue the file transfer process.
I mean, come on, guys.
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You've made how many iPhones?
You think you could maybe get this right?
Apple just doesn't seem to put a lot
of care into the simplicity of the setup
or to making it seamless.
They figure, well, that's just kind of part
of the Apple way.
You've owned Apple devices, so you know how
well they work or how bad they migrate.
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And I got to give them a five
out of 10 because I think they could
have done a lot better job on the
migration process.
Once it had gone through, it would have
said, hey, we're upgrading.
We're now copying the files over.
Like, I shouldn't have had to go back.
And then I got to say a shame
on you to Verizon.
I'm sure a lot of carriers are doing
this too.
(13:48):
They say they're doing it for security, but
to have to go in and call them
and activate the ESET, I mean, that was
just another hassle.
So the whole process took under an hour.
And I did this whole thing on video
to show people what this takes.
And I sped up some parts of it.
But I want to share that with you
(14:08):
because, again, I've got my new iPhone 17
Pro Max working.
I just have to get the new protector
on it, the screen protector and whatnot.
And I also have to get the new
Defender Pro case.
So again, yes, I have it.
Yes, it is working.
(14:30):
But the fact that I have 7,000
emails right now, guys, I mean, that is
just like, that's pitiful.
And the funny part is that I deleted
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these emails.
And they have still come back.
So I am not very, very happy with
how their migration process worked, to be quite
honest with you.
I had deleted all these emails and they
still came back.
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So that's a problem, guys.
I mean, a really, really big problem.
It says I have over 7,000 emails.
That is insane, guys.
That is absolutely, absolutely insane.
So I'm not pleased with the entire process
(15:37):
because I think it could have gone a
lot better.
I really do.
I did get everything over.
And it looks like my phone's going to
work fine.
But there's still a little bit I have
to massage with the emails and stuff like
that.
So let's get right into our topics.
But I did want to share my insights
with the iPhone 17 Pro Max with you.
(15:58):
So ladies and gentlemen, the United States is
weighing a ban now on the Chinese-made
drones and trucks, a move that could drastically
reshape the global tech supply chain.
And that's something that is very, very critical
for everyone in the world.
The conversation centers on national security and trade
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dynamics are raising tension between tech giants and
world powers as future regulations and partnerships are
hanging in the balance.
Now, number two, in a decisive crackdown, Russia
has decided to block access to the WhatsApp
and YouTube, signaling a significant pivot toward digital
(16:42):
isolationism.
Now, this sudden change has forced millions to
find new ways to communicate, altering the social
and informational landscape for everyday Russians and digital
businesses worldwide.
Number three, guys, as part of this digital
(17:02):
crackdown that they're going through, Russian citizens must
now adapt to a suite of the Kremlin
-approved, quote-unquote, platforms.
The government's push raises concerns over freedom, privacy,
and innovation in a space previously dominated by
global technology leaders, testing how citizens interact with
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technology under heightened surveillance.
Number four, guys, Warner Brothers is shaking up
the industry in the entertainment world and tech
by suing various AI companies for using Superman
and Scooby-Doo without proper permission.
(17:50):
Yeah, they weren't looking for the Scooby snacks.
This historic legal battle could set precedences on
creative rights and define how intellectual property is
protected in an age of generative AI.
Now, in a landmark, number five, a settlement,
AI powerhouse Anthropic has agreed to pay $1
(18:14):
.5 billion over book piracy claims.
Now, this unprecedented payout that wasn't expected not
only emphasizes the growing responsibilities of tech giants
to creators and authors, but also signals a
new era of accountability in artificial intelligence.
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Number six, guys, after a tragic incident involving
teens, parents have taken open AI to court,
spotlighting the urgent need for better safety protocols
in the AI world.
The lawsuit intensifies a national debate on how
companies design and monitor AI's impact on vulnerable
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populations, especially our youth.
So apparently, they thought they weren't doing enough,
so I guess they brought it to the
powers that be in the law.
And number seven, guys, kind of compounding on
this, Meta has halted its AI now because
of all this, and it's not because they
want to, it's because of the lawsuit, from
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engaging any further suicide prevention chats with teens,
a move that now opens a heated debate
about liability, digital mental health, and the right
boundaries for tech intervention in sensitive conversations.
You might be saying, John, you know, what
harm can this do?
Okay, so whether it's a minor or it's
(19:42):
not a minor, the fact that a piece
of technology is giving advice to somebody, a
minor or another person that's a valid life,
and if something goes awry in that conversation,
right, or an algorithm goes out of whack,
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well, it could say something that could potentially
affect a human being.
And by affecting that human being, it could
affect their desire of whether they want to
be alive or not, and that's pretty sad.
So where should the line be drawn on
stuff like this?
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And are companies doing enough?
Apparently not.
So what Meta is now doing, and other
companies are going to be forced to do
this, they didn't do this because they wanted
to do this, I just want to be
clear about this, they have now stopped the
suicide prevention chat line bots, but what they
aren't doing is they are, if they get
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this type of communication, they're routing it to
a live human being who is supposedly, quote,
unquote, trained in psychology or is a psychologist
and can actually be the right person to
give that minor or that other person in
life the information that they really need.
Because when somebody is going through an emotional
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challenge, a computer can fire up all kinds
of answers, and if that answer hits you,
and it's, let's say, given in a way
that's not softened, well, that could really affect
your outlook on life and what you value
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and what you think life is important.
So I think we've got to be careful,
and I think we can't use AI as
something that is going to be a direct
response because AI does not know how to
soften things, AI does not know how to
validate things, and AI can actually cause not
only a problem, but will make the situation
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worse by exacerbating it.
And I can see why the parents are
unhappy.
I mean, think about this.
Somebody was online, they're not happy with their
life, and they decide that they're going to
talk to some bot about why they're here
and if they should be here, and if
they get some kind of response from the
bot, and the bot maybe decides to say,
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well, you should, that's not good.
That bot does not have a true understanding
for what the meaning of life is, and
I think that's a very, very important conversation
that we all need to understand.
Number eight, guys, education is on the brink
of transformation as the Khan Academy pilots an
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AI set of powered classrooms.
This leap forward in personalized learning could set
the standard for schools worldwide offering tailored curriculums,
instant feedback, and more engaging experiences for students
and teachers alike.
(22:50):
Far beneath the surface, number nine, Red Sea
cable have been cut, and they have disrupted
the Microsoft Azure empire and the global cloud
trafficking, leaving the tech infrastructures, in other words,
vulnerable.
The incident exposes how fragile and essential our
(23:12):
underground digital backbone is to daily operations and
international business.
Number 10, guys, in a stunning cyber attack,
Jaguar Land Rover was forced to shut down
multiple factories, stopping production lines and sending shockwaves
(23:34):
through the entire automotive industry supply chain.
This breach highlights the mounting risk industries face
and the urgent need for reinforced cyber defenses,
and I think this is something that hopefully
everybody will come to an understanding to appreciate
that it's not about the one thing.
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It's about what they didn't do, and that's
the fact I've always said.
It's not a question of if you're going
to get attacked, but when, if you are
not properly protected.
Let me say that again.
It's not a question of if you're going
to get attacked, but when, if you are
not properly protected.
And people say, well, no, Jon, I can't
afford antivirus.
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I can't afford spyware.
I can't afford protection.
I can't afford ransomware.
I can't afford sandboxing.
I can't afford backup.
You are the companies that cannot afford to
be without this kind of protection or backup
because if something happens that destroys your empire,
you don't have the resources to rebuild it.
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Another company can't afford it either, but they
have resources in the bank and places that
they can reach to rebuild their empire in
maybe a couple of days, a couple of
weeks, or a couple of months.
That's a very, very important thing that I
think a lot of people miss today is
that, well, you know, it's never going to
happen to me.
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You always have to be vigilant.
We had something today whereby we noticed somebody
from Europe that was trying to penetrate one
of our forums.
Of course, we have pretty tight security, but
we noticed somebody attempting to hack.
They weren't getting through, but we noticed it.
As soon as we noticed what was happening
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and where their IP was going, we immediately
shut their whole subnet down, like within minutes.
So we were not going to be hacked
in any way, shape, or form.
We were definitely safe, but just to keep
that out and to keep the resource from
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bogging our servers down, because you have to
remember, even if we don't get attacked, it
still takes away from our resources and our
server, and that's a big problem, right?
So we did address that.
And so we're always making changes to be
more vigilant, to be more on track, to
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be more on the cutting edge, but never
to be complacent that we have everything in
place, always ready to be adapting.
Number 11, guys.
Germany has unveiled Europe's fastest supercomputer, redefining speed
records and repositioning the country as, well, a
(26:29):
power player in research, simulation, and AI advancement.
The launch demonstrates bold commitment to the scientific
discovery and also to technological frontier building in
the modern age.
And I think this is something that a
lot of people don't realize, that we have
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to embrace these small innovations because these small
innovations actually are the seeds or the fuel
to empower the larger innovations.
Number 12, guys.
The United States Securities and Exchange Commission, well,
is planning sweeping new crypto regulations signaling massive
(27:14):
shakeups for the digital currencies and fintech.
The proposed changes could elevate transparency and security,
but also unsettled markets used to be involved
of minimal oversight.
And so what I want to share here,
guys, and I think this is a very
important thing to understand, is banking.
(27:34):
So back around, oh, the ancient days in
the marketplace, in circa 2000 BCE, the earliest
banks were actually temples in places in Mesopotamia
and Egypt, which served as secure storage for
grain and other valuables, and priests and merchants
issued interest-bearing loans of grain to farmers
(27:56):
and traders with these arrangements meticulously recorded on
clay tablets.
They didn't have paper back then.
When we ride up to circa 600 BCE,
currency and private banking became the thing.
With invention of metal coins in Lydia and
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their adoption by the Greek and Roman empires,
banking evolved to include currency exchange, accepting deposits,
and lending money.
In Rome, money changers worked from benches called
bancu, from which the modern term bank actually
got derived.
Now, if you knew that, around the 12th
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to the 15th centuries of our time, medieval
merchant banks arose.
This was during the Crusades.
The knights, the Templars facilitated the transfer of
funds for pilgrims by accepting local currency and
issuing now letters of credit.
Later, affluent families in the Italian city-states
like Florence created merchant banks and pioneered the
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double-entry bookkeeping system, credits and debits.
Paper currency hit us around the 17th century
in England.
The goldsmiths began issuing paper receipts for deposited
precious metals, discovering that these receipts could be
lent out as a form of debt.
And they created a new kind of money
and invented fractional reserve banking.
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The Bank of England was established, by the
way, in 1694 to manage government funds and,
ladies and gentlemen, to stabilize the government funds
of currency.
And the rise of banking continued in the
18th and 19th century, and that's when we
hit the Industrial Revolution.
During the period of rapid industrialization, global trade,
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banks just took off into large commercial entities,
offering services like checking accounts, overdraft protection, and
investment banking.
The rise of prominent banking in the families
just took off and grew.
Around the 1930s, we got regulation and stability
for our banks.
Banks became more widespread.
In the United States, the Glass-Steagall Act
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separated commercial and investment banking, and we now
got the FDIC, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation,
created to ensure customer deposits against any bank
failures.
Around the 1960s to basically 1990s, technology began
to reshape, and banks now were experiencing the
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introduction of credit cards.
The first general-purpose credit card was Bank
AmeriCard.
Now you know them as Visa.
It came about in 1958.
ATMs became available in the late 1960s, 24
-7 access to cash.
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Online banking became a thing in the 1980s
and grew into the 1990s.
Digital disruption and the rise of the fintechs
in the 2000s.
In 2008, we had the financial crisis that
was exacerbated by a major shift toward financial
technology.
In the late 2000s, we started having more
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people using mobile banking, scanning checks on their
phones, making deposits and transfers all from their
mobile phones, even being able to do this
from the telephone.
Emerging tech was definitely popping, and the industry
now influenced things like cryptocurrency, blockchain, open banking,
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and AI-powered services.
But the question people ask me, John, is,
are banks going to be consolidated?
I don't think we're going to have just
one bank, but I think instead of having
20 or 30 or 50 banks, we might
only have three or four or maybe five
at most, because I think the banks right
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now are getting overwhelmed, and they're having trouble
keeping up.
I know people now that are trying to
get into the banking industry that have had
years of experience, over 23 years of experience,
and they can't get a job.
And it's not because they're not good guys.
It's because of one thing.
It's because the banks themselves can't keep their
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managers.
They can't keep their tellers.
They can't keep people.
And then when they get good people to
come in, well, they can't even find the
right people to interview.
It's been deplorable what I've seen in how
they interview candidates.
It's in the financial industry.
And number 13, Nepal's government now has blocked
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Facebook, igniting a rather passionate debate over digital
rights and freedom of expression.
Now, citizens and activists are now challenging lawmakers
on the global front and stage to reconsider
how nations balance control and connectivity all around
us.
So this is something that's emerging.
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It's not just something that's happening today, but
it's something that's happening every single day.
And number 14, in the corridors of power,
Trump has been gathering the top tech CEOs
for this high-profile luncheon he had at
the Rose Garden dinner.
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And this exclusive event could usher in now
policy shifts affecting things as widespread as social
media, cybersecurity, artificial intelligence, with implications that have
the potential to ripple far beyond just what
is encountered at the White House.
Guys, that's a lot of information, and we're
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going to start to see changes in our
world.
They're not going to happen tomorrow, but I'm
telling you we're going to start to see
subtle changes.
And these subtle changes are going to affect
not just the micro economy, but they're going
to affect the entire economy.
And I think that's an important thing to
realize.
And here's one.
Kids are hacking their own schools now.
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And you're probably wondering, why is this growing
so fast?
Well, school cyber hacks aren't just headline news.
See, students themselves are behind a growing wave
of insider attacks for fun, for thrill, or
challenge.
And this is all according to the United
Kingdom's top watchdog as they've been noticing this
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change.
From cracked staff accounts to massive data breaches,
even seven-year-olds are getting involved in
the act.
Experts are warning that these dares that they're
being put up to do by other students
can now lead to serious consequences for schools,
for teachers, and students, and might even involve
them in legal implications.
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Is it about curiosity?
Is it crime or a wake-up call
for better digital safety?
And I think this brings me back to
a very interesting point.
When I was younger, I always liked hacking
just like I do now, but I did
legal ethical hacking.
So what was the difference?
So when I hacked back then, just like
when I hack today, it's legal, but I
had software programs.
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And the only hacking I would do was
either hacking I got permission to do, in
a closed facility, a closed system, or if
I had a game and I was trying
to hack the game, I would never sell
it, never do anything bad with it.
I just want to see if I could.
A lot of times it was for a
game to see if I could get past
the level to understand the logic and how
things work.
But it was never to make money on
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it.
It was never to exploit anybody.
It was strictly for the concept of learning.
What these people are doing at the school
level, you're talking about kids getting into change
of grade.
These are people that are very smart, but
sometimes these people can go south.
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And I think this happens because maybe they're
not getting the right nurturing.
It could be happening because the schools maybe
don't have the right outlets.
Maybe they need extracurricular things like more STEM
programs.
I think this is a really big concept
that many schools are facing.
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Either they invest money in putting programs together
that are going to feed these students' creativity,
or they could risk the fact that that
school now will become responsible and could become
liable for being a, I don't know, let's
say a grounds for them being groomed to
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be, shall we say thieves?
I don't want to say that, but deceptive
crime.
That's really bad.
And ladies and gentlemen, going to college back
now for my computer science AI master's and
my CS AI PhD is really important to
me.
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And I take studying very seriously.
I also take doing my work honestly very
seriously.
But a lot of people are not.
They are involved with AI cheating.
And is it changing schools forever?
I think so.
I think it's okay to use AI to
learn from, but it's not okay to use
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AI to learn and copy the answer verbatim.
You can use it to practice.
But you should never be using AI to
just give you an answer.
Forget the old book reports.
AI has appended the way students write.
They study and they even get graded.
Teachers across the country are saying the rise
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of AI tools like chat GPT and many
others is so extreme that the take-home
essays and even homework might now be history.
With students unsure right now what's allowed and
rules constantly shifting, schools now scramble to set
clear guidelines and fight a wave of high
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-tech cheating.
Is this the end of traditional assignments?
I don't know.
But I know one thing.
Every time that I start a new course
at college, they spend a good 15 or
20 minutes explaining the honor system policy.
They're talking about things like not cheating from
people, reading off your neighbor's test or something
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like that and they're turning in somebody else's
work.
But now they're getting into the fact that
AI is also somebody else's work.
And, again, there's a difference between using AI
to learn.
There's a difference to using AI to cheat.
And it breaks my heart when I find
people that are just using AI to cheat,
get a grade, but then they're really cheating
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themselves.
And Microsoft does something interesting.
It kills Authenticator passwords.
What's next?
Microsoft Authenticator passwords are history.
But the two-factor authentication still lives on.
This was as of August 1, 2025.
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Microsoft Authenticator nuked the password autofill for good,
which doesn't bother me too much.
The two-factor authentication is safe and sound,
but if you didn't move your passwords before
the deadline, guess what, guys?
They're gone.
So I have lots of accounts in my
2FA, but I will tell you in order
to use the 2FA, to bring the accounts
over, you have to make sure that you've
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enabled the iCloud on your old phone, your
new phone, you've had everything synced and backed
up, and then you've recovered the account.
And that's an important thing to do.
So there's a lot happening, guys, right now.
And I think with everything going on, and
we talk about Microsoft Authenticator, we talk about
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lots of things.
We talk about Apple.
Apple's watch gets the FDA.
I didn't even know they needed to get
an FDA.
Yeah, Apple's watch gets the FDA.
I mean, like, what the heck is this
all about?
So Apple has just made history, and this
was September 16th.
The hypertension detection is coming to the Apple
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Watch.
That's right, this week.
Bringing early warning for high blood pressure to
millions of people worldwide.
Health tech steps up again as your risk
could help save your life.
But you're wondering why did this happen?
If you remember, Mr. Cook said that, you
know, he wanted to be more than just
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technology.
He wanted to be the heart and hub
of living a healthier, happier life.
Looks like they're starting to do that.
And we'll have to see, you know, what's
going to happen.
And the FTC, guys, is targeting big AI
now.
Is chatbot hype hiding huge dangers?
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The U.S. government is cracking down, demanding
answers from open AI, Google, Meta, and more
about their AI bots.
After scandals and lawsuits, the FTC wants to
know, is your chatbot safe, or is it
risking itself under user privacy, mental health, and
more?
This is what's going on.
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AI's wild, wild west days might be coming
to an end.
Because as we learned with Meta and some
other companies, at the end of the day,
you know, if you're a developer and you're
producing something, you're responsible for what you created.
I mean, you have to know what it
can and can't do.
And if you built something, you don't understand
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its potential, well, then you could potentially be
liable, my friends.
That's a very, very big war.
And ladies and gentlemen, I don't know if
you guys know this, I talked about the
Ray-Ban glasses, which were okay.
They weren't phenomenal, right?
Amazon takes on Meta now.
AR glasses war begins.
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Amazon is secretly, well, it's not a secret
anymore, building its own AR glasses to battle
Meta for your digital world.
Full color display, camera voice and style, coming
soon to change how you see everything.
Who's ready for Amazon versus Meta?
The next big wearable showdown.
And they're claiming that these glasses will have
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more storage, and they will last longer, have
a longer battery life.
So these are very cool, important things.
And here's what I think you guys are
going to find interesting.
Microsoft decides to end the full remote three
-day back-to-the-office adventure.
Microsoft just dropped the bombshell that no more
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endless remote work.
Starting next year, all employees near headquarters must
be in the office at least three days
a week with the policy going global very
soon.
If they don't, well, let's just say that
they might have to find a new job.
And as I said to you before, meet
the iPhone 17, guys.
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The next level camera, power and style.
Apple has unveiled the iPhone 17 family.
I have the iPhone 17 Pro Max right
here in my hands.
And the 17 Pro Max has some real
jaw-dropping upgrades.
Revolutionizing your selfies with the all-new center
stage front camera, snap ultra-crisp photos on
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triple 48 megapixel rear lenses, and immerse yourself
in a brighter, smoother ProMotion display powered by
the lightning-fast A19 chip.
Now, these iPhones deliver all-day battery, super
-fast charging, flagship durability.
They're available in the colors that they've shown
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with double the starting storage.
And they're ready to experience a new era.
And as we said, the pre-orders started
on the 12th.
That's when they started the pre-orders.
I actually got my order in.
Actually, yeah, I wound up getting my order
in.
It was actually last Friday I got the
order in.
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But they said pre-orders opened on Monday.
But I knew that I didn't want to
wait till Monday because, for whatever reason, I
just didn't trust, you know, that the sites
wouldn't crash again, as they always do.
And so the funny thing was, when I
ordered my phone on the 12th, it shipped
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out on the 14th of Sunday.
But it was held and not delivered until
today, the 19th.
Remember, you cannot get the phone early.
That's the whole thing with Apple.
You cannot receive the phone early.
And Amazon tests GM's electronic vans and sustainability
push.
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Amazon is ramping up its green fleet, now
testing General Motors' Bright Drop electric vans in
select areas as part of its ambitious plan
to deploy 100,000 EVs by 2030.
These new additions join the Rivian and other
electronic models, all part of the Amazon's drive
for net-zero emissions by 2040.
While only a handful of Bright Drop vans
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are currently on the road, their launch marks
another big step into transforming delivery and reducing
the carbon footprint, even as production pauses and
the competition in the electric vehicle space definitely
heats up, guys.
So we'll definitely keep an eye on what
Amazon is doing there.
One thing is certain is it's making a
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big impact, and not a lot of companies
are doing this.
So I think this is going to get,
you know, Amazon a lot of big PR,
maybe more than they had visioned, but definitely
going to get them some more PR, hopefully
some good PR.
But here's one that I think you guys
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are going to find, I'm going to say
a little bit interesting.
The hidden radio is in our roads.
U.S. officials are now warning that some
solar-powered highway tech may contain secret radios
that could be hacked.
Are foreign-made devices putting American infrastructure at
risk?
This is not a drill.
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So not only would they be able to
possibly change what's on a sign, which you
might figure, what's the deal about that?
Well, plenty, especially if a road's closed and
somebody now changes the way something goes, that
could potentially affect somebody's life.
Or if these signs are part of a
bigger infrastructure, it could be even more serious.
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Or are they being used like espionage to
grab data that they could send back that
they could learn more about what's going on
in our world?
So I think it still comes down to
the fact that certain things need to be
made and used in the United States.
I was chatting with somebody on social media
just the other day, and they said to
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me, you know, why should everything be in
the United States?
Of course, they were from another country.
And I said, well, you know, haven't we
gotten burned in the United States enough?
And when I said that, they didn't even
respond.
It's like, well, we should be able to
produce things.
Yeah, you're the ones that put us in
this position, right?
And, you know, with things happening now with
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the drone crisis and Poland shooting down the
Russian drones, this is what's believed.
But then somebody said that it wasn't Russian,
even though it was reported to be Russian.
NATO's first combat response since the Ukraine war.
Is Europe on the brink for some trouble?
I don't know.
It could be.
And so there's definitely a lot, guys, that
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is morphing.
And this week, there is so much stuff.
So I thought I would end by talking
a little bit about glass.
So what is, you know, what is Apple's
new 26.0 glass update features?
So there's a lot, so I'm not going
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to get into all of them.
The iOS 26 update introduces the new liquid
glass design, providing a seamless translucent kind of
feel, kind of space-age visual experience across
the interface with light refracting elements.
Key features powered by Apple intelligence include live
translation for calls and messages, enhancements to phone
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and messaging with screening tools and polls, a
new integrated games app, customizable lock screen, and
a 3D photo effects system, and the ability
to create digital IDs in the wallet app.
But here's one thing that I think you're
really going to like, and it's not just
a fad.
I think how many times have you called
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somebody, right?
It could be Verizon, it could be your
phone company, it could be a service company,
and you're put on hold, right?
I'm sure that never happens to anybody.
Well, how would you like it if the
phone could tell you when a live person
was on the phone, so you didn't have
to sit there holding?
Well, wish no more.
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There is a feature on the iPhone 26
.0. You don't have to have the 17.
With 26.0, it can now alert you
when somebody comes back to the phone.
There's even a feature to allow you to
record calls on the phone, which is pretty
cool.
They released that a few versions ago, but
that's really a very high-end thing.
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And I think more people are wanting technology
that summarizes.
So I think they did a good job
with that.
I do like the new camera features that
they've added.
You now can not only just take from
one place, but you can take the zoom.
So on my old phone, I could only
go up to 25, okay?
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On my new phone, on my camera, I
can actually go up to 40 times on
a photo.
That's incredible, guys.
That is, like, when I say it's incredible,
that's incredible.
And on the video, I can go up
24 times.
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That's some pretty remarkable stuff, okay?
And I have to tell you that I
don't believe the iPhone 17 Pro Max is
a fad.
I believe they have not only coupled some
great software, but they've leveraged some better hardware
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to make the software be more efficient, like
in the video world, in the picture world.
So what are some of the quick features
that I can talk about real quickly before
we get out?
So we have the new design, the fluidity,
I talked about that.
The lock screen, we talked about that.
The camera, updated tab for the photos.
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There's a new tab designed for Safari.
They've had some new re-image landing pages
for FaceTime.
They've enhanced CarPlay to work better.
Compact call UI.
There's a better TV app.
So there's visual intelligence.
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You can actually see intelligence in any app
by pressing the same buttons you use to
take a screenshot on your phone.
That's pretty cool, guys, right?
Live translation, automatically translate incoming text, including group
messages.
Type your response in your preferred language, and
it will be delivered to your friend in
both the original and translated language.
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That, guys, is like really the bee's knees.
Intelligent actions and shortcuts can summarize text, create
images, or tap directly into Apple's intelligence models
to provide responses that feed into your shortcut.
You've got Genmoji.
You can combine emojis to make new generation
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emojis.
You have an image playground, which has been
enhanced even more than before.
You've got backgrounds.
You can send polls to friends and families
over iMessage to find everybody's availability or preference
for dinner.
So they've really kind of stepped this up
a little bit, if you ask me.
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You can select what type of messages, time
-sensitive, personal, transactional, promotional.
They did that in the 18 something, but
they've enhanced that even more.
Maps is better.
Music is better.
They have like a DJ auto-mix seamlessly
that can transition from one song to the
next using time stretching and beat matching to
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deliver an even more seamless listening experience.
The wallet seems a lot more viable.
I will tell you that when I had
to go to the new phone, I did
have to put in my authentication codes for
security codes for the credit card.
They didn't just come over.
I had to put that in, but that
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was good.
And then I had to reactivate with the
bank.
Apple games is all new.
And so, you know, there's even Braille Act
as a powerful way for Braille users with
connected displays to interact with their Apple device.
Users with limited mobility can navigate iPhone using
head movements more easily and perform actions like
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tapping or taking a screenshot using different facial
expressions.
Sound recognition can now be trained to recognize
names to notify users who are deaf or
hard of hearing if their name is being
called.
So a lot of cool things.
I told you the clock is kind of
neat.
You can change the amount of time.
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You can snooze from one minute to 15,
largest snooze button.
And they made it like more friendly, more
exploratory.
So that was really, really cool.
I like the summary feature.
I started using that in the 18.2,
but it's a lot better with the new
phone.
And I really am enjoying the glass feature.
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You know, so safety check.
You can stop sharing across the system with
safety check right away when you block a
contact.
That's cool.
That's a neat little thing.
Siri has gotten an upgrade.
Siri has gotten some more product knowledge to
help you.
It can follow up on chat GPT responses
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with actions.
Siri can help you take action on responses
from chat GPT.
The stolen device protection requires that face ID
or touch ID with no passcode fallback when
stolen device protection is active.
So that's pretty cool.
Severe weather alerts.
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There's some writing tools, improved formatting support in
writing tools.
So, you know, I think they've made the
phone more practical.
That's what I have to say.
But I still have to say the migration
experience, terrible.
I mean, really terrible.
They made the phone look better.
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They gave some other options, like you can
have the clock from the clock show up
also on the side of the screen as
well as be at the top.
So they added things like that.
The screen is more vibrant.
They made summarization a lot easier.
And they made prompting.
Now they have screening.
They have a screening call feature.
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So call screen automatically answers unknown callers without
interrupting you.
Once the caller shares their name and the
reason for their call, your phone rings, and
you can decide if you want to pick
up or not.
Those that are probably trying to spam you
are probably not going to state their name.
They're going to hang up.
So there's a lot of cool things that
I think they did in this version.
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By the way, in case you're wondering, the
iOS 26 version, which is pretty cool, is
compatible from the iPhone 17 family all the
way down to the iPhone 11 family all
the way down to the iPhone SE second
generation and later.
So iPhone 26 is not just for the
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last few releases of phones.
And I think it's great that they made
the system adaptable so it can work great
with the new phone at a more enhanced
level.
But it also can work with the other
older phones.
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Again, I have not tested all the features
out yet.
I just got the phone.
I don't even have the phone 24 hours.
But from what I can see, it seems
like it's going to be better.
You also have the ability on the phone
here.
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You can swipe down.
They added some more options.
They also added a QR option.
So when you swipe down on the right,
as you normally can swipe down on the
right of your screen, there's an option in
the very bottom left corner that they put
there, which is the QR code scanner, which
I think is really nice that they added
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that kind of feature.
You have the accessibility thing to help your
accessibility.
You have the dark mode on, dark mode
off in just one quick touch.
So they really made things pretty easy, the
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way they did things.
They have the screen mirroring.
You can mirror your screen to a 4K
stick.
You can mirror it to something else.
And that's really, really cool.
You have the low battery mode, which can
automatically go on.
You can also turn on from that screen.
So again, they made a lot of enhancements
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from what I can see.
And again, I'm just playing.
I love the clearness.
The clearness is pretty cool.
Because it's like you're swiping down, and it's
like you're seeing like, it's like this glass
feeling.
Even the numbers have this very, almost like
slightly transparent, translucent effect.
Like on the time, it's not a true
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white 106.
It's between a gray and a white.
It's kind of like just light there.
It's really cool how they did this.
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learner.
This week, each major event deserves, well, a
closer look.
And here's what's on deck, all right?
But before I get into the official things,
I want to share something that's a little
bit off the cuff, maybe you're expecting it.
So today being September 19th show, I want
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to let you know that I got my
brand new iPhone 17 Pro Max right here.
And I thought I would give you a
little taste about what it was like.
Here's my iPhone 16 Pro Max.
So first of all, I got the phone
a few days ago, I actually had upgraded
my iPhone 16 Pro Max to 26.0
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iOS, because I figured that having the latest
iOS was going to be what the new
phone wanted, and it would make the upgrade
process very smooth.
I would have thought.
So I got the new phone, I did
an unboxing video, I also put together another
video about how to actually do the migration
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process.
And then there's another video that I'll be
doing about my review of the phone.
All right, so again, got the phone, unboxed
it, I got the deep blue, there's only
three colors, it's basically the orange, the deep
blue and the gray.
So I got the phone and you turn
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it on and it was probably a little
more than half charged around that.
And so I knew that I could do
the migration phone to phone, just having them
close to each other and using its Wi
-Fi back and forth or the Bluetooth, so
I was able to do that.
And so I had followed what I normally
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do.
And the way you do it is you
get to the point that it asks you
if you want to set up your phone
from another phone, you choose that option.
And then basically what you have to do
is you're basically scanning the QR code that
comes on the screen.
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And then you scan the QR code.
And so what happens is it trips to
one phone, the other phone, you read the
QR code and then you're able to basically
proceed with the next step.
It asks you if you're setting up for
a minor, a child, et cetera.
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So you answer those couple of questions.
And then after that, you know, it's going
to ask you, you're going to have to
connect to a network that comes in the
process.
So you have to connect to a network.
So I connected to my Wi-Fi network.
My Wi-Fi network is really severely locked
down on purpose.
So other people don't just join the network
without being allowed.
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And so one of the things I use
is Mac filtering.
So what I could have done is actually
went into my router and just enabled the
Mac address for this new iPhone 17 Pro
Max.
But I want to show people what happens.
So I remember having this phone today.
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And what I did was I didn't enable
the Mac address.
When I got to the part where I
connected to the network.
And so whenever you go to the Wi
-Fi screen and you're on a Wi-Fi
screen of the other phone, you can basically
choose to share the password.
So that was pretty straightforward.
And so, again, I've done this many times
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before.
And so I figured, you know, I'm going
to have the latest OS.
It's going to be great.
So what I noticed is that the new
phone did not come with 26 point.
Oh, and I was like, oh, great.
So they made this big push that, you
know, it was going to have it, but
it really didn't.
So it had like the 18.1 or
18.2. So what did it have to
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do when it checked my phone and saw
that it had the 26?
Well, it actually needed to upgrade, which was
fine.
But I would have thought the phone would
have come with itself already at 26 point.
So after it finished the upgrade and doing
the reboot, it then, you know, basically, I
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thought would have proceeded with the transfer of
the files.
Wrong.
I had to then initiate the transfer again.
And the funny thing is it never said
that it failed.
So you just had to know that it
didn't go through by looking at your phone
and the screen and stuff like that.
So I did that.
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And this time the network was activated.
So it worked.
And so it took, it said it was
15 minutes was the estimated.
It actually took about maybe 10 and a
half minutes.
So it went pretty fast for 500 and
some gigabytes, which is pretty good.
So once all that was completed, the next
thing that was a little funny was the
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activation of the SIM.
So there's no SIM in this phone, which
is subscriber identification module.
There's something called an electronic subscriber identification module,
not just a SIM, which used to be
a chip you put from one phone to
the other phone.
That's how we used to do it.
So what happened was you normally would activate
the SIM over the Wi-Fi and that'd
be good to go.
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Now, about six months ago, I activated a
phone for a client and that phone did
not activate.
I had to call them or follow the
steps to, you know, activate it through their
automated system.
OK, so now I called them to do
the activation.
They were closed.
I could use the automated system.
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It was a little convoluted.
You had to go through a couple of
menus and then you press the option and
they confirmed it and all that.
And then once that happened, the next thing
that happened was it went through and basically
it said it was complete.
I powered off the phone, powered it back
on.
Within four or five minutes, I had a
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working cell phone for, you know, data and,
you know, for cell phone calls.
And then I was able to enable the
feature for, you know, cellular wireless calling.
So, you know, calls over wireless, they call
it.
And so I did that.
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But here was the funny part.
Everything came over except for a couple of
things.
So first thing was.
I had to go to my phone and
I had to make sure that I had
unpaired my one particular app I use for
the security to talk to my U.S.
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Treasury services at one of my banks.
And so I unpaired it because the last
time I did this, no one explained that
you had to unpair it or that you
could just remove it.
You had it.
So I went in there, I unpaired it
and that was pretty smooth.
I logged back in and then it just
sent me a temporary passcode to my email.
I scanned the QR code and that was
really simple.
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I actually had gotten a warning a couple
of days ago when I was doing to
do an ACH transfer.
I got this warning that if you're getting
a new phone, make sure you unpair, which
is great.
They had that little warning there, but I
kind of was aware of what was going
to go on.
So I knew to do that.
Next, my emails.
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So when it transferred everything over and then
the emails were getting read, it was reading
them from the beginning of time.
It didn't know the exact point where my
other phone was.
It should have brought exactly there, but it
didn't.
So I figured no big deal.
I'll just delete the emails.
Okay, fine.
I can delete emails one by one by
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one and select them.
I could not select all that feature, even
though it says it's there, it's not there.
There seems to be a bug that you
cannot just delete things.
So deleting a couple hundred emails takes a
few minutes.
Deleting 700 emails, well, that takes a lot
longer.
So that's a bug.
There was another little nuance that I store
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over 30, 40 two-factor authentications in Microsoft
Authenticator.
I had backed them up, but there were
some settings that were not getting enabled.
So I had to go in and check
that.
And then I could actually recover my Microsoft
Authenticator account because to put in 40 some
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accounts by hand, that's not easy.
I would have to go to every single
service provider that I had two-factor authentications
with.
You're talking about things like Power Company, certain
website logins, Slack, etc.
That would have taken me, if there are
40, it could have taken me maybe 10
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minutes for each one.
That's a lot of time, guys.
10 minutes and I had 40 of them,
right?
10 times 40, 400 minutes.
So 400 minutes divided by 60, that would
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have taken me over six hours.
So I said, no, we are not doing
this.
And so got that to work.
And then I also had to add this
app back on for my school.
And that worked really simply, no problem.
But Apple has never been very transparent with
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their upgrades.
If you didn't upgrade your other phones, well,
it would have a big problem.
Now, they're forcing an upgrade and they don't
have enough smarts to actually go back and
continue the file transfer process.
I mean, come on, guys.
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You've made how many iPhones?
You think you could maybe get this right?
Apple just doesn't seem to put a lot
of care into the simplicity of the setup
or to making it seamless.
They figure, well, that's just kind of part
of the Apple way.
You've owned Apple devices, so you know how
well they work or how bad they migrate.
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And I got to give them a five
out of 10 because I think they could
have done a lot better job on the
migration process.
Once it had gone through, it would have
said, hey, we're upgrading.
We're now copying the files over.
Like, I shouldn't have had to go back.
And then I got to say a shame
on you to Verizon.
I'm sure a lot of carriers are doing
this too.
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They say they're doing it for security, but
to have to go in and call them
and activate the ESET, I mean, that was
just another hassle.
So the whole process took under an hour.
And I did this whole thing on video
to show people what this takes.
And I sped up some parts of it.
But I want to share that with you
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because, again, I've got my new iPhone 17
Pro Max working.
I just have to get the new protector
on it, the screen protector and whatnot.
And I also have to get the new
Defender Pro case.
So again, yes, I have it.
Yes, it is working.
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But the fact that I have 7,000
emails right now, guys, I mean, that is
just like, that's pitiful.
And the funny part is that I deleted
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these emails.
And they have still come back.
So I am not very, very happy with
how their migration process worked, to be quite
honest with you.
I had deleted all these emails and they
still came back.
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So that's a problem, guys.
I mean, a really, really big problem.
It says I have over 7,000 emails.
That is insane, guys.
That is absolutely, absolutely insane.
So I'm not pleased with the entire process
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because I think it could have gone a
lot better.
I really do.
I did get everything over.
And it looks like my phone's going to
work fine.
But there's still a little bit I have
to massage with the emails and stuff like
that.
So let's get right into our topics.
But I did want to share my insights
with the iPhone 17 Pro Max with you.
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So ladies and gentlemen, the United States is
weighing a ban now on the Chinese-made
drones and trucks, a move that could drastically
reshape the global tech supply chain.
And that's something that is very, very critical
for everyone in the world.
The conversation centers on national security and trade
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dynamics are raising tension between tech giants and
world powers as future regulations and partnerships are
hanging in the balance.
Now, number two, in a decisive crackdown, Russia
has decided to block access to the WhatsApp
and YouTube, signaling a significant pivot toward digital
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isolationism.
Now, this sudden change has forced millions to
find new ways to communicate, altering the social
and informational landscape for everyday Russians and digital
businesses worldwide.
Number three, guys, as part of this digital
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crackdown that they're going through, Russian citizens must
now adapt to a suite of the Kremlin
-approved, quote-unquote, platforms.
The government's push raises concerns over freedom, privacy,
and innovation in a space previously dominated by
global technology leaders, testing how citizens interact with
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technology under heightened surveillance.
Number four, guys, Warner Brothers is shaking up
the industry in the entertainment world and tech
by suing various AI companies for using Superman
and Scooby-Doo without proper permission.
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Yeah, they weren't looking for the Scooby snacks.
This historic legal battle could set precedences on
creative rights and define how intellectual property is
protected in an age of generative AI.
Now, in a landmark, number five, a settlement,
AI powerhouse Anthropic has agreed to pay $1
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.5 billion over book piracy claims.
Now, this unprecedented payout that wasn't expected not
only emphasizes the growing responsibilities of tech giants
to creators and authors, but also signals a
new era of accountability in artificial intelligence.
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Number six, guys, after a tragic incident involving
teens, parents have taken open AI to court,
spotlighting the urgent need for better safety protocols
in the AI world.
The lawsuit intensifies a national debate on how
companies design and monitor AI's impact on vulnerable
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populations, especially our youth.
So apparently, they thought they weren't doing enough,
so I guess they brought it to the
powers that be in the law.
And number seven, guys, kind of compounding on
this, Meta has halted its AI now because
of all this, and it's not because they
want to, it's because of the lawsuit, from
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engaging any further suicide prevention chats with teens,
a move that now opens a heated debate
about liability, digital mental health, and the right
boundaries for tech intervention in sensitive conversations.
You might be saying, John, you know, what
harm can this do?
Okay, so whether it's a minor or it's
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not a minor, the fact that a piece
of technology is giving advice to somebody, a
minor or another person that's a valid life,
and if something goes awry in that conversation,
right, or an algorithm goes out of whack,
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well, it could say something that could potentially
affect a human being.
And by affecting that human being, it could
affect their desire of whether they want to
be alive or not, and that's pretty sad.
So where should the line be drawn on
stuff like this?
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And are companies doing enough?
Apparently not.
So what Meta is now doing, and other
companies are going to be forced to do
this, they didn't do this because they wanted
to do this, I just want to be
clear about this, they have now stopped the
suicide prevention chat line bots, but what they
aren't doing is they are, if they get
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this type of communication, they're routing it to
a live human being who is supposedly, quote,
unquote, trained in psychology or is a psychologist
and can actually be the right person to
give that minor or that other person in
life the information that they really need.
Because when somebody is going through an emotional
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challenge, a computer can fire up all kinds
of answers, and if that answer hits you,
and it's, let's say, given in a way
that's not softened, well, that could really affect
your outlook on life and what you value
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and what you think life is important.
So I think we've got to be careful,
and I think we can't use AI as
something that is going to be a direct
response because AI does not know how to
soften things, AI does not know how to
validate things, and AI can actually cause not
only a problem, but will make the situation
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worse by exacerbating it.
And I can see why the parents are
unhappy.
I mean, think about this.
Somebody was online, they're not happy with their
life, and they decide that they're going to
talk to some bot about why they're here
and if they should be here, and if
they get some kind of response from the
bot, and the bot maybe decides to say,
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well, you should, that's not good.
That bot does not have a true understanding
for what the meaning of life is, and
I think that's a very, very important conversation
that we all need to understand.
Number eight, guys, education is on the brink
of transformation as the Khan Academy pilots an
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AI set of powered classrooms.
This leap forward in personalized learning could set
the standard for schools worldwide offering tailored curriculums,
instant feedback, and more engaging experiences for students
and teachers alike.
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Far beneath the surface, number nine, Red Sea
cable have been cut, and they have disrupted
the Microsoft Azure empire and the global cloud
trafficking, leaving the tech infrastructures, in other words,
vulnerable.
The incident exposes how fragile and essential our
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underground digital backbone is to daily operations and
international business.
Number 10, guys, in a stunning cyber attack,
Jaguar Land Rover was forced to shut down
multiple factories, stopping production lines and sending shockwaves
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through the entire automotive industry supply chain.
This breach highlights the mounting risk industries face
and the urgent need for reinforced cyber defenses,
and I think this is something that hopefully
everybody will come to an understanding to appreciate
that it's not about the one thing.
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It's about what they didn't do, and that's
the fact I've always said.
It's not a question of if you're going
to get attacked, but when, if you are
not properly protected.
Let me say that again.
It's not a question of if you're going
to get attacked, but when, if you are
not properly protected.
And people say, well, no, Jon, I can't
afford antivirus.
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I can't afford spyware.
I can't afford protection.
I can't afford ransomware.
I can't afford sandboxing.
I can't afford backup.
You are the companies that cannot afford to
be without this kind of protection or backup
because if something happens that destroys your empire,
you don't have the resources to rebuild it.
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Another company can't afford it either, but they
have resources in the bank and places that
they can reach to rebuild their empire in
maybe a couple of days, a couple of
weeks, or a couple of months.
That's a very, very important thing that I
think a lot of people miss today is
that, well, you know, it's never going to
happen to me.
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You always have to be vigilant.
We had something today whereby we noticed somebody
from Europe that was trying to penetrate one
of our forums.
Of course, we have pretty tight security, but
we noticed somebody attempting to hack.
They weren't getting through, but we noticed it.
As soon as we noticed what was happening
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and where their IP was going, we immediately
shut their whole subnet down, like within minutes.
So we were not going to be hacked
in any way, shape, or form.
We were definitely safe, but just to keep
that out and to keep the resource from
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bogging our servers down, because you have to
remember, even if we don't get attacked, it
still takes away from our resources and our
server, and that's a big problem, right?
So we did address that.
And so we're always making changes to be
more vigilant, to be more on track, to
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be more on the cutting edge, but never
to be complacent that we have everything in
place, always ready to be adapting.
Number 11, guys.
Germany has unveiled Europe's fastest supercomputer, redefining speed
records and repositioning the country as, well, a
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power player in research, simulation, and AI advancement.
The launch demonstrates bold commitment to the scientific
discovery and also to technological frontier building in
the modern age.
And I think this is something that a
lot of people don't realize, that we have
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to embrace these small innovations because these small
innovations actually are the seeds or the fuel
to empower the larger innovations.
Number 12, guys.
The United States Securities and Exchange Commission, well,
is planning sweeping new crypto regulations signaling massive
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shakeups for the digital currencies and fintech.
The proposed changes could elevate transparency and security,
but also unsettled markets used to be involved
of minimal oversight.
And so what I want to share here,
guys, and I think this is a very
important thing to understand, is banking.
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So back around, oh, the ancient days in
the marketplace, in circa 2000 BCE, the earliest
banks were actually temples in places in Mesopotamia
and Egypt, which served as secure storage for
grain and other valuables, and priests and merchants
issued interest-bearing loans of grain to farmers
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and traders with these arrangements meticulously recorded on
clay tablets.
They didn't have paper back then.
When we ride up to circa 600 BCE,
currency and private banking became the thing.
With invention of metal coins in Lydia and
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their adoption by the Greek and Roman empires,
banking evolved to include currency exchange, accepting deposits,
and lending money.
In Rome, money changers worked from benches called
bancu, from which the modern term bank actually
got derived.
Now, if you knew that, around the 12th
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to the 15th centuries of our time, medieval
merchant banks arose.
This was during the Crusades.
The knights, the Templars facilitated the transfer of
funds for pilgrims by accepting local currency and
issuing now letters of credit.
Later, affluent families in the Italian city-states
like Florence created merchant banks and pioneered the
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double-entry bookkeeping system, credits and debits.
Paper currency hit us around the 17th century
in England.
The goldsmiths began issuing paper receipts for deposited
precious metals, discovering that these receipts could be
lent out as a form of debt.
And they created a new kind of money
and invented fractional reserve banking.
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The Bank of England was established, by the
way, in 1694 to manage government funds and,
ladies and gentlemen, to stabilize the government funds
of currency.
And the rise of banking continued in the
18th and 19th century, and that's when we
hit the Industrial Revolution.
During the period of rapid industrialization, global trade,
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banks just took off into large commercial entities,
offering services like checking accounts, overdraft protection, and
investment banking.
The rise of prominent banking in the families
just took off and grew.
Around the 1930s, we got regulation and stability
for our banks.
Banks became more widespread.
In the United States, the Glass-Steagall Act
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separated commercial and investment banking, and we now
got the FDIC, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation,
created to ensure customer deposits against any bank
failures.
Around the 1960s to basically 1990s, technology began
to reshape, and banks now were experiencing the
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introduction of credit cards.
The first general-purpose credit card was Bank
AmeriCard.
Now you know them as Visa.
It came about in 1958.
ATMs became available in the late 1960s, 24
-7 access to cash.
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Online banking became a thing in the 1980s
and grew into the 1990s.
Digital disruption and the rise of the fintechs
in the 2000s.
In 2008, we had the financial crisis that
was exacerbated by a major shift toward financial
technology.
In the late 2000s, we started having more
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people using mobile banking, scanning checks on their
phones, making deposits and transfers all from their
mobile phones, even being able to do this
from the telephone.
Emerging tech was definitely popping, and the industry
now influenced things like cryptocurrency, blockchain, open banking,
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and AI-powered services.
But the question people ask me, John, is,
are banks going to be consolidated?
I don't think we're going to have just
one bank, but I think instead of having
20 or 30 or 50 banks, we might
only have three or four or maybe five
at most, because I think the banks right
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now are getting overwhelmed, and they're having trouble
keeping up.
I know people now that are trying to
get into the banking industry that have had
years of experience, over 23 years of experience,
and they can't get a job.
And it's not because they're not good guys.
It's because of one thing.
It's because the banks themselves can't keep their
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managers.
They can't keep their tellers.
They can't keep people.
And then when they get good people to
come in, well, they can't even find the
right people to interview.
It's been deplorable what I've seen in how
they interview candidates.
It's in the financial industry.
And number 13, Nepal's government now has blocked
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Facebook, igniting a rather passionate debate over digital
rights and freedom of expression.
Now, citizens and activists are now challenging lawmakers
on the global front and stage to reconsider
how nations balance control and connectivity all around
us.
So this is something that's emerging.
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It's not just something that's happening today, but
it's something that's happening every single day.
And number 14, in the corridors of power,
Trump has been gathering the top tech CEOs
for this high-profile luncheon he had at
the Rose Garden dinner.
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And this exclusive event could usher in now
policy shifts affecting things as widespread as social
media, cybersecurity, artificial intelligence, with implications that have
the potential to ripple far beyond just what
is encountered at the White House.
Guys, that's a lot of information, and we're
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going to start to see changes in our
world.
They're not going to happen tomorrow, but I'm
telling you we're going to start to see
subtle changes.
And these subtle changes are going to affect
not just the micro economy, but they're going
to affect the entire economy.
And I think that's an important thing to
realize.
And here's one.
Kids are hacking their own schools now.
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And you're probably wondering, why is this growing
so fast?
Well, school cyber hacks aren't just headline news.
See, students themselves are behind a growing wave
of insider attacks for fun, for thrill, or
challenge.
And this is all according to the United
Kingdom's top watchdog as they've been noticing this
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change.
From cracked staff accounts to massive data breaches,
even seven-year-olds are getting involved in
the act.
Experts are warning that these dares that they're
being put up to do by other students
can now lead to serious consequences for schools,
for teachers, and students, and might even involve
them in legal implications.
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Is it about curiosity?
Is it crime or a wake-up call
for better digital safety?
And I think this brings me back to
a very interesting point.
When I was younger, I always liked hacking
just like I do now, but I did
legal ethical hacking.
So what was the difference?
So when I hacked back then, just like
when I hack today, it's legal, but I
had software programs.
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And the only hacking I would do was
either hacking I got permission to do, in
a closed facility, a closed system, or if
I had a game and I was trying
to hack the game, I would never sell
it, never do anything bad with it.
I just want to see if I could.
A lot of times it was for a
game to see if I could get past
the level to understand the logic and how
things work.
But it was never to make money on
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it.
It was never to exploit anybody.
It was strictly for the concept of learning.
What these people are doing at the school
level, you're talking about kids getting into change
of grade.
These are people that are very smart, but
sometimes these people can go south.
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And I think this happens because maybe they're
not getting the right nurturing.
It could be happening because the schools maybe
don't have the right outlets.
Maybe they need extracurricular things like more STEM
programs.
I think this is a really big concept
that many schools are facing.
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Either they invest money in putting programs together
that are going to feed these students' creativity,
or they could risk the fact that that
school now will become responsible and could become
liable for being a, I don't know, let's
say a grounds for them being groomed to
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be, shall we say thieves?
I don't want to say that, but deceptive
crime.
That's really bad.
And ladies and gentlemen, going to college back
now for my computer science AI master's and
my CS AI PhD is really important to
me.
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And I take studying very seriously.
I also take doing my work honestly very
seriously.
But a lot of people are not.
They are involved with AI cheating.
And is it changing schools forever?
I think so.
I think it's okay to use AI to
learn from, but it's not okay to use
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AI to learn and copy the answer verbatim.
You can use it to practice.
But you should never be using AI to
just give you an answer.
Forget the old book reports.
AI has appended the way students write.
They study and they even get graded.
Teachers across the country are saying the rise
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of AI tools like chat GPT and many
others is so extreme that the take-home
essays and even homework might now be history.
With students unsure right now what's allowed and
rules constantly shifting, schools now scramble to set
clear guidelines and fight a wave of high
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-tech cheating.
Is this the end of traditional assignments?
I don't know.
But I know one thing.
Every time that I start a new course
at college, they spend a good 15 or
20 minutes explaining the honor system policy.
They're talking about things like not cheating from
people, reading off your neighbor's test or something
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like that and they're turning in somebody else's
work.
But now they're getting into the fact that
AI is also somebody else's work.
And, again, there's a difference between using AI
to learn.
There's a difference to using AI to cheat.
And it breaks my heart when I find
people that are just using AI to cheat,
get a grade, but then they're really cheating
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themselves.
And Microsoft does something interesting.
It kills Authenticator passwords.
What's next?
Microsoft Authenticator passwords are history.
But the two-factor authentication still lives on.
This was as of August 1, 2025.
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Microsoft Authenticator nuked the password autofill for good,
which doesn't bother me too much.
The two-factor authentication is safe and sound,
but if you didn't move your passwords before
the deadline, guess what, guys?
They're gone.
So I have lots of accounts in my
2FA, but I will tell you in order
to use the 2FA, to bring the accounts
over, you have to make sure that you've
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enabled the iCloud on your old phone, your
new phone, you've had everything synced and backed
up, and then you've recovered the account.
And that's an important thing to do.
So there's a lot happening, guys, right now.
And I think with everything going on, and
we talk about Microsoft Authenticator, we talk about
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lots of things.
We talk about Apple.
Apple's watch gets the FDA.
I didn't even know they needed to get
an FDA.
Yeah, Apple's watch gets the FDA.
I mean, like, what the heck is this
all about?
So Apple has just made history, and this
was September 16th.
The hypertension detection is coming to the Apple
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Watch.
That's right, this week.
Bringing early warning for high blood pressure to
millions of people worldwide.
Health tech steps up again as your risk
could help save your life.
But you're wondering why did this happen?
If you remember, Mr. Cook said that, you
know, he wanted to be more than just
(40:32):
technology.
He wanted to be the heart and hub
of living a healthier, happier life.
Looks like they're starting to do that.
And we'll have to see, you know, what's
going to happen.
And the FTC, guys, is targeting big AI
now.
Is chatbot hype hiding huge dangers?
(40:55):
The U.S. government is cracking down, demanding
answers from open AI, Google, Meta, and more
about their AI bots.
After scandals and lawsuits, the FTC wants to
know, is your chatbot safe, or is it
risking itself under user privacy, mental health, and
more?
This is what's going on.
(41:17):
AI's wild, wild west days might be coming
to an end.
Because as we learned with Meta and some
other companies, at the end of the day,
you know, if you're a developer and you're
producing something, you're responsible for what you created.
I mean, you have to know what it
can and can't do.
And if you built something, you don't understand
(41:39):
its potential, well, then you could potentially be
liable, my friends.
That's a very, very big war.
And ladies and gentlemen, I don't know if
you guys know this, I talked about the
Ray-Ban glasses, which were okay.
They weren't phenomenal, right?
Amazon takes on Meta now.
AR glasses war begins.
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Amazon is secretly, well, it's not a secret
anymore, building its own AR glasses to battle
Meta for your digital world.
Full color display, camera voice and style, coming
soon to change how you see everything.
Who's ready for Amazon versus Meta?
The next big wearable showdown.
And they're claiming that these glasses will have
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more storage, and they will last longer, have
a longer battery life.
So these are very cool, important things.
And here's what I think you guys are
going to find interesting.
Microsoft decides to end the full remote three
-day back-to-the-office adventure.
Microsoft just dropped the bombshell that no more
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endless remote work.
Starting next year, all employees near headquarters must
be in the office at least three days
a week with the policy going global very
soon.
If they don't, well, let's just say that
they might have to find a new job.
And as I said to you before, meet
the iPhone 17, guys.
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The next level camera, power and style.
Apple has unveiled the iPhone 17 family.
I have the iPhone 17 Pro Max right
here in my hands.
And the 17 Pro Max has some real
jaw-dropping upgrades.
Revolutionizing your selfies with the all-new center
stage front camera, snap ultra-crisp photos on
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triple 48 megapixel rear lenses, and immerse yourself
in a brighter, smoother ProMotion display powered by
the lightning-fast A19 chip.
Now, these iPhones deliver all-day battery, super
-fast charging, flagship durability.
They're available in the colors that they've shown
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with double the starting storage.
And they're ready to experience a new era.
And as we said, the pre-orders started
on the 12th.
That's when they started the pre-orders.
I actually got my order in.
Actually, yeah, I wound up getting my order
in.
It was actually last Friday I got the
order in.
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But they said pre-orders opened on Monday.
But I knew that I didn't want to
wait till Monday because, for whatever reason, I
just didn't trust, you know, that the sites
wouldn't crash again, as they always do.
And so the funny thing was, when I
ordered my phone on the 12th, it shipped
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out on the 14th of Sunday.
But it was held and not delivered until
today, the 19th.
Remember, you cannot get the phone early.
That's the whole thing with Apple.
You cannot receive the phone early.
And Amazon tests GM's electronic vans and sustainability
push.
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Amazon is ramping up its green fleet, now
testing General Motors' Bright Drop electric vans in
select areas as part of its ambitious plan
to deploy 100,000 EVs by 2030.
These new additions join the Rivian and other
electronic models, all part of the Amazon's drive
for net-zero emissions by 2040.
While only a handful of Bright Drop vans
(45:13):
are currently on the road, their launch marks
another big step into transforming delivery and reducing
the carbon footprint, even as production pauses and
the competition in the electric vehicle space definitely
heats up, guys.
So we'll definitely keep an eye on what
Amazon is doing there.
One thing is certain is it's making a
(45:34):
big impact, and not a lot of companies
are doing this.
So I think this is going to get,
you know, Amazon a lot of big PR,
maybe more than they had visioned, but definitely
going to get them some more PR, hopefully
some good PR.
But here's one that I think you guys
(45:55):
are going to find, I'm going to say
a little bit interesting.
The hidden radio is in our roads.
U.S. officials are now warning that some
solar-powered highway tech may contain secret radios
that could be hacked.
Are foreign-made devices putting American infrastructure at
risk?
This is not a drill.
(46:17):
So not only would they be able to
possibly change what's on a sign, which you
might figure, what's the deal about that?
Well, plenty, especially if a road's closed and
somebody now changes the way something goes, that
could potentially affect somebody's life.
Or if these signs are part of a
bigger infrastructure, it could be even more serious.
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Or are they being used like espionage to
grab data that they could send back that
they could learn more about what's going on
in our world?
So I think it still comes down to
the fact that certain things need to be
made and used in the United States.
I was chatting with somebody on social media
just the other day, and they said to
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me, you know, why should everything be in
the United States?
Of course, they were from another country.
And I said, well, you know, haven't we
gotten burned in the United States enough?
And when I said that, they didn't even
respond.
It's like, well, we should be able to
produce things.
Yeah, you're the ones that put us in
this position, right?
And, you know, with things happening now with
(47:21):
the drone crisis and Poland shooting down the
Russian drones, this is what's believed.
But then somebody said that it wasn't Russian,
even though it was reported to be Russian.
NATO's first combat response since the Ukraine war.
Is Europe on the brink for some trouble?
I don't know.
It could be.
And so there's definitely a lot, guys, that
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is morphing.
And this week, there is so much stuff.
So I thought I would end by talking
a little bit about glass.
So what is, you know, what is Apple's
new 26.0 glass update features?
So there's a lot, so I'm not going
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to get into all of them.
The iOS 26 update introduces the new liquid
glass design, providing a seamless translucent kind of
feel, kind of space-age visual experience across
the interface with light refracting elements.
Key features powered by Apple intelligence include live
translation for calls and messages, enhancements to phone
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and messaging with screening tools and polls, a
new integrated games app, customizable lock screen, and
a 3D photo effects system, and the ability
to create digital IDs in the wallet app.
But here's one thing that I think you're
really going to like, and it's not just
a fad.
I think how many times have you called
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somebody, right?
It could be Verizon, it could be your
phone company, it could be a service company,
and you're put on hold, right?
I'm sure that never happens to anybody.
Well, how would you like it if the
phone could tell you when a live person
was on the phone, so you didn't have
to sit there holding?
Well, wish no more.
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There is a feature on the iPhone 26
.0. You don't have to have the 17.
With 26.0, it can now alert you
when somebody comes back to the phone.
There's even a feature to allow you to
record calls on the phone, which is pretty
cool.
They released that a few versions ago, but
that's really a very high-end thing.
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And I think more people are wanting technology
that summarizes.
So I think they did a good job
with that.
I do like the new camera features that
they've added.
You now can not only just take from
one place, but you can take the zoom.
So on my old phone, I could only
go up to 25, okay?
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On my new phone, on my camera, I
can actually go up to 40 times on
a photo.
That's incredible, guys.
That is, like, when I say it's incredible,
that's incredible.
And on the video, I can go up
24 times.
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That's some pretty remarkable stuff, okay?
And I have to tell you that I
don't believe the iPhone 17 Pro Max is
a fad.
I believe they have not only coupled some
great software, but they've leveraged some better hardware
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to make the software be more efficient, like
in the video world, in the picture world.
So what are some of the quick features
that I can talk about real quickly before
we get out?
So we have the new design, the fluidity,
I talked about that.
The lock screen, we talked about that.
The camera, updated tab for the photos.
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There's a new tab designed for Safari.
They've had some new re-image landing pages
for FaceTime.
They've enhanced CarPlay to work better.
Compact call UI.
There's a better TV app.
So there's visual intelligence.
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You can actually see intelligence in any app
by pressing the same buttons you use to
take a screenshot on your phone.
That's pretty cool, guys, right?
Live translation, automatically translate incoming text, including group
messages.
Type your response in your preferred language, and
it will be delivered to your friend in
both the original and translated language.
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That, guys, is like really the bee's knees.
Intelligent actions and shortcuts can summarize text, create
images, or tap directly into Apple's intelligence models
to provide responses that feed into your shortcut.
You've got Genmoji.
You can combine emojis to make new generation
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emojis.
You have an image playground, which has been
enhanced even more than before.
You've got backgrounds.
You can send polls to friends and families
over iMessage to find everybody's availability or preference
for dinner.
So they've really kind of stepped this up
a little bit, if you ask me.
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You can select what type of messages, time
-sensitive, personal, transactional, promotional.
They did that in the 18 something, but
they've enhanced that even more.
Maps is better.
Music is better.
They have like a DJ auto-mix seamlessly
that can transition from one song to the
next using time stretching and beat matching to
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deliver an even more seamless listening experience.
The wallet seems a lot more viable.
I will tell you that when I had
to go to the new phone, I did
have to put in my authentication codes for
security codes for the credit card.
They didn't just come over.
I had to put that in, but that
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was good.
And then I had to reactivate with the
bank.
Apple games is all new.
And so, you know, there's even Braille Act
as a powerful way for Braille users with
connected displays to interact with their Apple device.
Users with limited mobility can navigate iPhone using
head movements more easily and perform actions like
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tapping or taking a screenshot using different facial
expressions.
Sound recognition can now be trained to recognize
names to notify users who are deaf or
hard of hearing if their name is being
called.
So a lot of cool things.
I told you the clock is kind of
neat.
You can change the amount of time.
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You can snooze from one minute to 15,
largest snooze button.
And they made it like more friendly, more
exploratory.
So that was really, really cool.
I like the summary feature.
I started using that in the 18.2,
but it's a lot better with the new
phone.
And I really am enjoying the glass feature.
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You know, so safety check.
You can stop sharing across the system with
safety check right away when you block a
contact.
That's cool.
That's a neat little thing.
Siri has gotten an upgrade.
Siri has gotten some more product knowledge to
help you.
It can follow up on chat GPT responses
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with actions.
Siri can help you take action on responses
from chat GPT.
The stolen device protection requires that face ID
or touch ID with no passcode fallback when
stolen device protection is active.
So that's pretty cool.
Severe weather alerts.
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There's some writing tools, improved formatting support in
writing tools.
So, you know, I think they've made the
phone more practical.
That's what I have to say.
But I still have to say the migration
experience, terrible.
I mean, really terrible.
They made the phone look better.
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They gave some other options, like you can
have the clock from the clock show up
also on the side of the screen as
well as be at the top.
So they added things like that.
The screen is more vibrant.
They made summarization a lot easier.
And they made prompting.
Now they have screening.
They have a screening call feature.
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So call screen automatically answers unknown callers without
interrupting you.
Once the caller shares their name and the
reason for their call, your phone rings, and
you can decide if you want to pick
up or not.
Those that are probably trying to spam you
are probably not going to state their name.
They're going to hang up.
So there's a lot of cool things that
I think they did in this version.
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By the way, in case you're wondering, the
iOS 26 version, which is pretty cool, is
compatible from the iPhone 17 family all the
way down to the iPhone 11 family all
the way down to the iPhone SE second
generation and later.
So iPhone 26 is not just for the
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last few releases of phones.
And I think it's great that they made
the system adaptable so it can work great
with the new phone at a more enhanced
level.
But it also can work with the other
older phones.
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Again, I have not tested all the features
out yet.
I just got the phone.
I don't even have the phone 24 hours.
But from what I can see, it seems
like it's going to be better.
You also have the ability on the phone
here.
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You can swipe down.
They added some more options.
They also added a QR option.
So when you swipe down on the right,
as you normally can swipe down on the
right of your screen, there's an option in
the very bottom left corner that they put
there, which is the QR code scanner, which
I think is really nice that they added
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that kind of feature.
You have the accessibility thing to help your
accessibility.
You have the dark mode on, dark mode
off in just one quick touch.
So they really made things pretty easy, the
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way they did things.
They have the screen mirroring.
You can mirror your screen to a 4K
stick.
You can mirror it to something else.
And that's really, really cool.
You have the low battery mode, which can
automatically go on.
You can also turn on from that screen.
So again, they made a lot of enhancements
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from what I can see.
And again, I'm just playing.
I love the clearness.
The clearness is pretty cool.
Because it's like you're swiping down, and it's
like you're seeing like, it's like this glass
feeling.
Even the numbers have this very, almost like
slightly transparent, translucent effect.
Like on the time, it's not a true
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white 106.
It's between a gray and a white.
It's kind of like just light there.
It's really cool how they did this.
Hey, ladies and gentlemen, I'm John C.
Morley, serial entrepreneur.
I invite you to check out more of
my shows.
Visit believemeachieve.com, and I'll catch you real
soon.
Be well, everyone.
Thanks for watching.
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