This week on Cult of Mac’s podcast: After OpenAI’s Sora app races to the top of the App Store charts, it’s time to consider how fantastic and terrifying it really is.
The iPhone-only app produces startlingly photorealistic videos of wacky things like Pikachu as a World War II soldier and iJustine wrestling an elephant. Will we ever be able to believe our eyes again?
Also on The CultCast:
- Former Apple design chief Jony Ive and his new BFFs at OpenAI reportedly run into some serious problems as they work to create an AI device to take on the iPhone.
- iOS 26 lets you screen iPhone calls even more efficiently than before. Griffin shows us how it the upgraded features work.
- A switcher lands a great deal on a MacBook Air, then goes all in on the Apple ecosystem. Talk about the halo effect!
- And finally, the latest iOS 26.1 beta brings some interesting new features — Griffin tells us all about them.
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The CultCast episode 720: AI madness!
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This week’s top Apple news
On the show this week: Your host, Cult of Mac Publisher and Editor in Chief Leander Kahney (@lkahney), Cult of Mac managing editor Lewis Wallace (@lewiswallace) and Cult of Mac writer D. Griffin Jones (@dgriffinjones).
Here what we’re talking about on this week’s show:
- Sora rockets to No. 1 on App Store: What Apple users love about OpenAI’s new AI video app
- OpenAI struggles to create its iPhone killer
- Apple drops iOS 26.1 beta 2 — what’s new across iPhone and iPad
- Screen calls on iPhone and you, too, can live in interruption-free bliss
- PC user gets deal on MacBook Air — then gleefully upgrades whole workstation [Setups]
