Pixel 11 Has Some Good Ideas, Zuck's AI Fever Dream, Spotify's Worst Idea Yet

**Stephen Robles** (0:00)
Open the pod bay doors, Hal.
Welcome to Primary Technology, the show about the tech news that matters. Big news this week, Google had its Pixel event. We're gonna get into all the features that they announced, the hardware. Mark Zuckerberg wrote an AI manifesto, which sounded like a fever dream. We'll get into that. Claude is gonna watermark its writing, and you'll be able to tell whether text was actually generated with AI. Spotify's trying to kill podcasts. YouTube made it harder to get monetized. And a ton more. This episode is brought to you by Decagon and you, all the members who support us directly, and one of your hosts, Stephen Robles, joined by my friend, Jason Aten. How's it going, Jason?

**Jason Aten** (0:32)
It's good because our espresso maker works again. So listen, I'm caffeinated.

**Stephen Robles** (0:37)
It is a good day when you're caffeinated. I'm pre-caffeinated. I cold brew it up before every show. That's how I'm able to come out the gate.

**Jason Aten** (0:42)
It does not look like a cup of coffee, Stephen.

**Stephen Robles** (0:45)
Here's the thing.

**Jason Aten** (0:46)
It looks like you're drinking a smoothie there.

**Stephen Robles** (0:48)
This is gonna be, I'm just anticipating the YouTube.

**Jason Aten** (0:52)
Real coffee.

**Stephen Robles** (0:53)
Listen, listen. We have the fancy Ninja Espresso Maker. I love doing that, but in the morning, I drink cold brew because there's very high- Concentrated. I drink concentrated, non-diluted chameleon cold brew. You're supposed to cut it with water. I don't cut it with anything. I cut it with my mouth, all right? I drink the chameleon cold brew.
I put some half and half in there. I know there's gonna be some comments about this. I'm just bracing myself for the YouTube comments.
I put protein powder in the cold brew and I blend it up and that is my breakfast. It is the breakfast of champions, Jason, because I turned cold brew into podcast. That's literally what I do, and videos. But whenever I say, I put protein powder and cold brew, people get upset, but listen, it works.

**Jason Aten** (1:44)
I didn't even know you went that far, so literally you are drinking a smoothie.

**Stephen Robles** (1:47)
I mean, kind of. You probably know the quote from today.

**Jason Aten** (1:51)
Yes. Just to be clear, I knew where the movie was from, but I looked it up because I feel like the rest of the conversation is very good. But again, it's from Space Odyssey, Stanley Kubrick, 2001

**Stephen Robles** (2:01)
That's exactly right. I saw that movie probably in my early 20s, and it felt like a trip. I don't even know what happened. I remember there's an obelisk.
I know that the computer traps. It's just crazy stuff going on there. I need to watch it again, I think, probably apropos in today's world. I need to watch iRobot again.

**Jason Aten** (2:20)
In Jurassic Park.

**Stephen Robles** (2:21)
Jurassic Park. We had some great comments, by the way. Everyone watching on YouTube, thanks for that. People said, Bending Spoons is the velociraptor of tech companies, which is an excellent comment, actually correct. Hope you guys enjoyed that. We have a bunch of five-star review shout-outs to give. We're so close to 500 reviews. Thank you for your help. Douglas Sanchez from Brazil. We have several international listeners and viewers. We actually have a picture of our knight in another continent. We'll get to that. But he said, Jason's humor is hilarious and they make a fantastic team. Look at that, Jason. You got a lot of love in this week's reviews.

**Jason Aten** (2:51)
They even used my name.

**Stephen Robles** (2:53)
They even used your name. They didn't say the other guy. We have to bring the joke back because maybe newer listeners don't.

**Jason Aten** (2:58)
This is how I know I've made it.

**Stephen Robles** (3:00)
That's it. I have a name. That's it. You have a name. So far and so bad from the USA. Looks forward to each new episode. Jeffwoo99 from the USA says, These guys are great. Best Tech podcast. I listened to Carpic from India. Yes, I finally tried Raycast and he gave us five stars for that. I have an entire video on Raycast.
Are you a Spotlight guy? Do you have a special launcher?

**Jason Aten** (3:18)
I use Alfred.

**Stephen Robles** (3:20)
All right, well tune in to the next Mac Power users. Okay, Jason?

**Jason Aten** (3:23)
Because me and David- I'm not switching.

**Stephen Robles** (3:25)
We go head to head. I got some thoughts.

**Jason Aten** (3:27)
It's just that it's not important enough to me to think about switching.