556: The Last Thing You Touch

Subtitle: Scoring The Rickies (June 2025)
The guys learn how their predictions fared, talk about some of the news from WWDC25, and someone gets a trophy.

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WWDC25 - Rickies.net (rickies.net/#2025%20WWDC%20Rickies)
WWDC25 - Rickies.co (rickies.co/keynote-jun-2025)
Introducing Liquid Glass | Apple - YouTube (youtube.com/watch?v=jGztGfRujSE)
Meet Liquid Glass - WWDC25 - Videos - Apple Developer (developer.apple.com/videos/play/wwdc2025/219)
iOS 26, iPadOS 26, and Liquid Glass: The MacStories Overview - MacStories (macstories.net/news/ios-26-ipados-26-and-liqui…)
WWDC25: macOS Tahoe Compatibility, Will Be Last to Support Intel Macs - 512 Pixels (512pixels.net/2025/06/wwdc25-macos-tahoe-compa…)
WWDC25: The End of the Intel Mac Era - 512 Pixels (512pixels.net/2025/06/the-end-of-the-intel-mac…)
Apple Intelligence Expands: Onscreen Visual Intelligence, Shortcuts, Third-Party Apps, and More - MacStories (macstories.net/news/apple-intelligence-expands…)
Apple Execs Defend Siri Delays, AI Plan and Apple Intelligence | WSJ - YouTube (youtube.com/watch?v=NTLk53h7u_k)
Updates to Apple's On-Device and Server Foundation Language Models - Apple Machine Learning Research (machinelearning.apple.com/research/apple-found…)
visionOS 26: The MacStories Overview - MacStories (macstories.net/news/visionos-26-the-macstories…)
Introducing the Apple Games app: A personalized home for games - Apple (apple.com/newsroom/2025/06/introducing-the-app…)
Updates to Apple's On-Device and Server Foundation Language Models - Apple Machine Learning Research (machinelearning.apple.com/research/apple-found…)
Foundation Models | Apple Developer Documentation (developer.apple.com/documentation/foundationmo…)
Apple’s new research paper says AI reasoning isn’t all it’s cracked up to be. | The Verge (theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/682693…)
The Prompt - Relay (relay.fm/prompt)
Develop for Shortcuts and Spotlight with App Intents - WWDC25 - Videos - Apple Developer (developer.apple.com/videos/play/wwdc2025/260)
Mac Power Users #801: WWDC 2025: A Return to Form - Relay (relay.fm/mpu/801)
Apple unveils new Mac Studio and brings Apple silicon to Mac Pro - Apple (apple.com/newsroom/2023/06/apple-unveils-new-m…)
From June 2023 :(

WWDC25: macOS Tahoe Breaks Decades of Finder History - 512 Pixels (512pixels.net/2025/06/wwdc25-macos-tahoe-break…)
WWDC25: Oh No, They Did It to Automator, Too - 512 Pixels (512pixels.net/2025/06/oh-no-otto)