Moltbot practical family use case

This week, we discuss Moltbot (née Clawdbot) taking over, Apple’s new AirTags, and finding Enterprise AI ROI. Plus, the tragic demise of the TV dinner.

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Runner-up Titles

• The Podcasters’ Choice
• I was biding my time
• I just want to sell something I believe in
• What if you didn’t get chard
• Chard as a Service
• Let’s be cool
• The Human League
• Spinning tapes talking to each other
• Artisanal tape dispensers
• Buying into the Panopticon
• Why should only Facebook know where I am?
• Root access to your life
• The AirTag Family Circus comic
• Jar of Airtags
• Hold my beer open source
• The Value of AI is intuitively obvious
• OK, we’re done. Talk to you guys next week.

Rundown

• Clawdbot Rebrands to Moltbot After Trademark Request From Anthropic - Laravel News
• Clawdbot users are snapping up the Mac Mini — and it’s under $500 at Amazon
• Enterprise AI ROI is still elusive. What IT can do to fix it. It's not "culture."
• Apple Silicon machine learning code may become more easily portable to Nvidia hardware
• Apple introduces new AirTag with expanded range and improved findability
• MFi Program
• Cords, Cyborgs & Cold Cases: Grandpa Dancy’s Operating System for Life
• Anthropic launches interactive Claude apps, including Slack and other workplace tools
• AMD Quietly Funded A Drop-In CUDA Implementation Built On ROCm: It's Now Open-Source

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