This week on Cult of Mac’s podcast: With the many AI-powered features reportedly coming in iOS 18, a Siri revamp sounds possible — and promising! We talk about OpenAI’s startlingly good GPT-4o demos and wonder if Siri will ever amaze us like that.
Also on The CultCast:
- Who will be Apple’s next CEO? Cupertino reportedly has a couple familiar faces on its short list.
- New features in iOS 17.5 are … OK. However, some of the accessibility features coming later this year — including Vision Pro-style eye tracking for iPhone — look pretty incredible.
- Those rumors of future folding iPhones just won’t stop.
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The CultCast live stream archive: iOS 18 and Siri’s AI upgrade
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This week’s top Apple news
On the show this week: Your host Erfon Elijah (@erfon), Cult of Mac managing editor Lewis Wallace (@lewiswallace) and Cult of Mac writer D. Griffin Jones (@dgriffinjones).
Here are the headlines we’re talking about on this week’s show:
- Apple using AI to make Siri more useful
- OpenAI’s amazing GPT-4o could be the next Siri
- iOS 17.5 helps detect unwanted Bluetooth tracking tags
- Apple showcases amazing new accessibility features like Eye Tracking
- Could John Ternus equal Tim Cook and Steve Jobs as Apple CEO?
- MacBook with 20-inch folding display could launch as early as 2025
- iPhone 17 lineup might feature ‘more complex’ designs, smaller Dynamic Island
- First folding iPhone could launch in 2026
Lewis Wallace is the managing editor of Cult of Mac and author of our weekly newsletter, The Weekender.
He’s a San Francisco-based writer and editor specializing in technology and culture. He loves his iPhone, hates Siri, and appreciates any hardware that combines form and function.
Prior to Cult of Mac, he juggled words and ideas as culture editor at Wired.com, homepage editor at TechTV, news product manager at NBCi, copy editor at PC World, reporter at The (Hayward) Daily Review and editor in chief of EveryBody’s News in Cincinnati.
He earned a bachelor of general studies degree with a journalism certificate from the University of Cincinnati. While in school, he worked as the entertainment editor of The News Record and as editor in chief of Clifton Magazine.
He’s also a bass player, who’s recorded and performed around the United States with Those Darn Accordions, The Electric Boogie Dawgz and The Mad Maggies. When not writing, editing or laying down bass lines, he plays darts and serves on the board of the San Francisco Darts League.
