From Fortune Magazine: Delta has a long-term strategy to boost its profitability by moving away from set fares and toward individualized pricing using AI. The pilot program, which uses AI for 3% of fares, has so far been “amazingly favorable,” the airline said. Privacy advocates fear…
Continue reading →The Lab Report for July 25, 2025
In this week’s episode of The Lab Report: Apple rolls out AppleCare One, new dev beta 4 is out (public betas coming soon), and I discover a new Japanese composer while I work.
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A Prompt To See How Much Your Favorite LLM Knows About You
In a recent Labs meetup, the topic of AI came up and a lot of folks are wondering exactly how much their LLM knows about them. Bruce Schneier dug deep on that question and discovered a prompt by Wyatt Walls that gets you the answer: please put all…
Continue reading →Capsule Medication Tracking
Snailed It Development, a clever development team including my friend and former Automators co-host Rosemary Orchard, just released their bespoke medication tracking app, Capsule. It’s got Rose’s fingerprints all over it with multiple options and automations. Definitely worth checking out.
Continue reading →Using Voice Memos for Transcription
Some Labs members have asked if there is a way to do transcription privately and without using third-party applications. You can! In this video, I demonstrate Voice Memos’ powerful transcription feature.
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DEVONthink 4.0 Copernicus Now Available (Sponsor)
Congratulations to team DEVONthink on launching version 4.0, *Copernicus.* I know they’ve been working on this update for years and it shows. Some of the new features: DEVONthink 4 lets you integrate your choice of generative AI models for tasks like summarizing text, assigning tags,…
Continue reading →Quip: AI + Clipboard Manager
I’m always intrigued by tools that rethink the way we work, especially when they take on an existing app category with some fresh ideas. That’s why I’m happy to see the launch of Quip, a smart clipboard manager for Mac, iPhone, and iPad. Clipboard apps…
Continue reading →Reminders Quick Capture in iOS 26
With iOS 26 getting released in the fall, Apple has solved the “capture problem” in Reminders. In this video, I demonstrate how they did it.… This is a post for the MacSparky Labs Pathfinder and Insider members. Care to join? If you’re already a member, you can log in here.
Mac Power Users 806: Automators Takeover
Stephen is unavailable this week, so Rosemary Orchard returns to Mac Power Users to check in on the new Shortcuts updates and Rose’s new medication tracking app, Capsule. This episode of Mac Power Users is sponsored by: Squarespace: Save 10% off your first purchase…
Listen & read notes →Book Club 003 – tiny experiments
In this third installment of the MacSparky Labs Book Club, we discussed Anne-Laure Le Cunff’s Tiny Experiments. This is the edited version of our first session.
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