Who is John Ternus, the incoming Apple CEO?

About this episode

The episode discusses the transition of Apple CEO from Tim Cook to John Ternus and Amazon's investment in Anthropic.

After 15 years, Tim Cook will hand off his role as Apple CEO to John Ternus, senior vice president of hardware engineering. Also, Amazon has made another circular AI deal: It's investing another $5 billion in Anthropic. Anthropic has agreed to spend $100 billion on AWS in return. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Topics covered

• Apple CEO transition
• John Ternus
• AI investment
• Amazon
• Anthropic
• hardware engineering

Keywords

• Apple
• John Ternus
• Tim Cook
• Amazon
• Anthropic
• AI
• AWS
• hardware engineering

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Organizations: Apple, Amazon, Anthropic, AWS

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