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This week, Federico and John attempt to clear up confusion about MacStories’ position on AI web crawlers before rethinking email apps in light of the update to Apple’s Mail app coming this fall.

On AppStories+, Federico and John preview their fall review research setups and consider the impact of Apple Intelligence on the Shortcuts app.

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On Ruminate, I tried a pork rind and then we get into the drama of the week: AI.

AppStories, Episode 392 Show Notes

AI Follow-Up

How We’re Trying to Protect MacStories from AI Bots and Web Crawlers – And How You Can, Too

Wired Confirms Perplexity Is Bypassing Efforts by Websites to Block Its Web Crawler

Rethinking Email

Apps Discussed

MimeStream

Spark

Superhuman

Missive

Shortwave

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On AppStories+, John shares a long list of observations and tidbits from his week at Apple Park for WWDC.

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Ruminate, Episode 187 Show Notes

Perplexity.ai’s Wikipedia page starring Robb

Clyde Cooper’s Barbecue

Gochujang | Kettle Brand®

Perplexity AI Is Lying about Their User Agent

Perplexity AI is lying about their user agent on Hacker News

Perplexity Is a Bullshit Machine

On Robots and Text

There’s Something Deeply Wrong With Perplexity

How to stop Perplexity and save the web from bad AI

Perplexity Plagiarized Our Story About How Perplexity Is a Bullshit Machine