Apple’s iPhone Duo, Meta’s Muse AI Agent, Anthropic Researcher Quits Over AI Doom | Diet TBPN
September 10, 2026
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5 min readApple’s Foldable, Meta’s Muse, and an Anthropic Exit
Apple finally announced the iPhone Duo, its foldable phone, and the reaction on this episode was oddly muted for what should be a landmark product. The hosts spent more time joking about screen time math—does watching two screens double your screen time, or is it pixel-adjusted?—than celebrating the device itself. One host summed up the tension neatly: "It's the biggest step forward in a long time, and yet it does absolutely nothing new for you." The phone reportedly has no visible crease, a curved display with a squared-off bezel, two cameras on the back, one on the front, and a price tag likely starting around $2,000 and climbing past $3,000 fully loaded. The hosts expect it to sell extremely well, partly because phones have always been underpriced relative to how much people use them—you spend more time on your phone than in your car, and your car costs ten times as much. But the excitement was tempered by the recognition that this is a form factor change, not a capability change. You can watch two reels at once, but you probably won't be able to open two copies of Instagram. The real question is whether developers will redesign apps for the new screen real estate, or whether the iPad's windowing system just gets ported over. Either way, CEO John Ternus gets a big early win with a genuinely new product category—less ris
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- 1 (00:01) **Apple Announces the iPhone Duo Foldable** - The hosts break down the reveal of Apple's first foldable phone, the iPhone Duo, and debate its potential impact on screen time and user behavior.
- 2 (03:01) **The Duo as a Step Forward, But Not a Revolution** - The hosts argue the Duo is the biggest iPhone hardware change in years, yet it offers no fundamentally new capabilities.
- 3 (04:15) **John Ternus Gets a Big Win as New Apple CEO** - The hosts praise new CEO John Ternus for launching a major new product early in his tenure, contrasting it with the riskier Apple Vision Pro.
- 4 (06:38) **Would You Rather: Search in iMessage or Get the Duo?** - A brief, humorous segment where the hosts debate the relative value of a foldable phone versus basic software feature improvements.
- 5 (08:04) **Steve Jobs Predicting ChatGPT in 1985** - The hosts play and analyze a clip of Steve Jobs in 1985, where he imagines a future where a student can "ask Aristotle a question" through a computer.
- 6 (11:43) **What Steve Jobs Would Think of Modern AI** - The hosts speculate on how Jobs would view today's AI landscape, concluding he would be excited but with strong demands.
- 7 (15:10) **Would Steve Jobs' Optimism Survive Today's Discourse?** - The hosts debate whether a modern Steve Jobs could successfully champion techno-optimism against today's polarized and negative media landscape.
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