Amazon Blocks Meta's Muse • Apple's iPhone Duo Pencil Pivot

Amazon blocked Meta's Muse, escalating a conflict among Big Tech players over AI agents, according to Spyglass. Separately, Apple's iPhone Duo launch nearly included an Apple Pencil Mini accessory, which the company did not announce.

Amazon Blocks Meta's Muse • Apple's iPhone Duo Pencil Pivot Well, it didn't take long for a full-on AI Agentic War to break out. No, not the kind that could potentially end humanity https://spyglass.org/ai-end-of-humanity/ , but the kind that could end civility between the various players in Big Tech... Meanwhile, Apple's 'one more thing' iPhone Duo almost had its own 'one more thing' in the form of an Apple Pencil Mini. Just imagine if John Ternus has busted out there, "actually, there are two more things..." and pulled an Apple Stylus out of his pocket. He could have made a great joke about not blowing it https://daringfireball.net/linked/2015/01/20/if-you-see?ref=spyglass.org , despite the stylus https://techcrunch.com/2011/11/05/that-iphone-keyboard-is-still-coming/?ref=spyglass.org ... Read on, for thoughts on...