537: Do You Know Apple?

Legacy Stephen is back, and Federico has been wired in to the saga of DeepSeek.

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A New Look for 2025 and Beyond — Relay (extras.relay.fm/blog/2025/1/24/a-new-look)
Sotheby's Is Auctioning Custom iPods from the Late Karl Lagerfeld's Massive Collection - MacStories (macstories.net/linked/sothebys-is-auctioning-c…)
Shiny iPod + Microphone (sothebys.com/en/buy/auction/2025/karl-karl-lag…)
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Xserve RAID - Wikipedia (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xserve_RAID)
Modified iPod minis (sothebys.com/en/buy/auction/2025/karl-karl-lag…)
DeepSeek FAQ – Stratechery by Ben Thompson (stratechery.com/2025/deepseek-faq)
Why everyone is freaking out about DeepSeek | The Verge (theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/598846…)
The questions the Chinese government doesn’t want DeepSeek AI to answer - Ars Technica (arstechnica.com/ai/2025/01/the-questions-the-c…)
Why the markets are freaking out about Chinese AI newcomer DeepSeek - Ars Technica (arstechnica.com/ai/2025/01/why-the-markets-are…)
Nvidia sheds almost $600 billion in market cap, biggest drop ever - CNBC (cnbc.com/2025/01/27/nvidia-sheds-almost-600-bi…)
Federico Viticci: "DeepSeek is no longer available on the Italian App Store..." (bsky.app/profile/viticci.macstories.net/post/3…)
The Fox and the Grapes - Wikipedia (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Fox_and_the_Grapes)
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