{"podcast":{"title":"Tech Brew Ride Home","slug":"tech-brew-ride-home-331078","podcast_index_feed_id":331078,"rss_url":"https://feeds.megaphone.fm/ridehome","website_url":"https://www.ridehome.info/show/techmeme-ride-home/","image_url":"https://megaphone.imgix.net/podcasts/de2eda0a-6caf-11f0-b957-cb9efc7ef063/image/5f654e3697eab991cefe3a98fc543911.png?ixlib=rails-4.3.1&max-w=3000&max-h=3000&fit=crop&auto=format,compress","author":"Amalgamated Internets, LLC","episode_count":2378,"summary":"Silicon Valley's water cooler podcast. A tech news summary every day... 15 minutes and you're up to date. From Tech Brew, Morning Brew's tech hub.","last_synced_at":"2026-07-16T08:17:35.498597+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/tech-brew-ride-home-331078"},"episode":{"title":"Hope You Weren't Putting Off Buying A Mac","slug":"hope-you-weren-t-putting-off-buying-a-mac","published_at":"2026-06-25T18:33:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/tech-brew-ride-home-331078/hope-you-weren-t-putting-off-buying-a-mac","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/tech-brew-ride-home-331078","url":"https://tracking.swap.fm/track/bHsDpvy53mYwJpnc1UL5/traffic.megaphone.fm/MOBI4558242254.mp3","audio_url":"https://tracking.swap.fm/track/bHsDpvy53mYwJpnc1UL5/traffic.megaphone.fm/MOBI4558242254.mp3","summary":"Apple hiked Mac and iPad prices 15-25% on the memory crunch; iPhones held steady. Anthropic accused Alibaba of distilling Claude 28.8 million times. IBM detailed a 0.7nm chip, Facebook revived its Creator Studio app, and Kalshi chased a $40B valuation. Apple raises Mac, iPad, and other product prices by 15%-25%, saying it has \"never seen a component price increase this much, this quickly\"; iPhone is unchanged (WSJ) Apple Raises Mac and iPad Prices to Counter Memory Shortages (Bloomberg) Sources: in a letter to US officials, Anthropic accused Alibaba of adversarial distillation, using Claude 28.8M times from April to June via almost 25K accounts (Bloomberg) IBM details a 0.7nm chip manufacturing process that utilizes a \"nanostack\" 3D transistor architecture, which it says could continue chip innovation for 10 years (The New York Times) Facebook brings back Facebook Creator Studio as a stand-alone app with a built-in AI chatbot to help creators grow their audiences through personalized guidance (TechCrunch) Meta looks to AI to review harmful content in cost-cutting drive (FT) Sources: Kalshi is in talks to raise funding at a ~$40B valuation in a round that may close as soon as Q3; Kalshi raised $1B at a $22B valuation in May 2026 (FT) Subscribe to the ad-free feed. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices","meta_description":"Apple hiked Mac and iPad prices 15-25% on the memory crunch; iPhones held steady. Anthropic accused Alibaba of distilling Claude 28.8 million times. IBM d…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":1328,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/tech-brew-ride-home-331078/episodes/hope-you-weren-t-putting-off-buying-a-mac/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/tech-brew-ride-home-331078/hope-you-weren-t-putting-off-buying-a-mac.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}