552: Stage Manager Could Never

This week, Myke hosts The Quizzies, Apple announces new accessibility features, Federico explains vibe coding, Google makes announcements ahead of IO, and Stephen takes on xAI.

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Google's statement on May 7 press reports about Search traffic – Google Blog (blog.google/products/search/statement-press-re…)
Apple opened the door to web paywalls — our test shows it might hurt conversions (revenuecat.com/blog/growth/iap-vs-web-purchase…)
Initial Data Is In: App2Web Conversion Rates After the App Store Ruling — Superwall (superwall.com/blog/initial-data-is-in-app-to-w…)
Apple unveils powerful accessibility features coming later this year - Apple (apple.com/newsroom/2025/05/apple-unveils-power…)
The Android Show: I/O Edition - YouTube (youtube.com/live/l3yDd3CmA_Y)
Android 16 Material Three Expressive UI coming in beta this month | The Verge (theverge.com/news/664316/android-material-thre…)
The Swift Student Challenge Interviews and watchOS and tvOS Wishes (appstories.net/episodes/435)
Apple, Anthropic Team Up to Build AI-Powered ‘Vibe-Coding’ Platform - Bloomberg (bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-05-02/apple-a…)
Good Vibrations Between Apple & Anthropic – MG Siegler (spyglass.org/apple-anthropic-xcode-coding)
Apple and Anthropic reportedly partner to build an AI coding platform | TechCrunch (techcrunch.com/2025/05/02/apple-and-anthropic-…)
Andrej Karpathy on Vibe Coding (x.com/karpathy/status/1886192184808149383?lang…)
Cursor (cursor.com/en)
OpenAI Is in Talks to Acquire Programming Tool Windsurf for $3 Billion - The New York Times (nytimes.com/2025/05/13/technology/openai-winds…)
Variant (variant.ai)
Junie (jetbrains.com/junie)
App Store Vibes - MacStories (macstories.net/linked/app-store-vibes)
VibeCode App (vibecodeapp.com)
Google confirms it’s close to getting Gemini support on iPhones | The Verge (theverge.com/news/658770/google-gemini-apple-i…)
xAI in Memphis - Archives - 512 Pixels (512pixels.net/category/xai-in-memphis)
Elon Musk’s xAI supercomputer stirs turmoil over smog in Memphis : NPR (npr.org/2024/09/11/nx-s1-5088134/elon-musk-ai-…)
Protect our Aquifer (protectouraquifer.org/issues/xai-supercomputer)
Second xAI Datacenter Could Take Enough Energy to Power 40% of Memphis; Government Agency Charged with Studying Impact Targeted by DOGE - 512 Pixels (512pixels.net/2025/05/new-xai-40-percent-doge)
Memphis Chamber of Commerce Claims No New Gas Turbines Will be Placed at Second xAI Location, Despite Documents to the Contrary - 512 Pixels (512pixels.net/2025/05/memphis-chamber-says-no-…)
Musk’s xAI explores another massive methane gas turbine installation at second South Memphis data center - Southern Environmental Law Center (selc.org/press-release/musks-xai-explores-anot…)
A cheat sheet for why using ChatGPT is not bad for the environment – The Weird Turn Pro (andymasley.substack.com/p/a-cheat-sheet-for-co…)
What's the carbon footprint of using ChatGPT? – Sustainability by numbers (sustainabilitybynumbers.com/p/carbon-footprint…)
Relay 5 vs. ChatGPT (media.512pixels.net/wp-content/uploads/2025/05…)