Apple's $500B U.S. Investment - MOSK: 02.25.2025

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🗓️ 25 February 2025

⏱️ 16 minutes

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- Apple Announces $500B in U.S. Investments - New Investments Reminiscent of 2018 and 2021 Announcements - Announced Houston Facility Has Foxconn Flavor - Ming-Chi Kuo Says Houston Facility to be Powered by High-End M5 Processors - Wedbush Applauds Timing of Apple Announcement - Apple Seeds First Betas of Next OS Updates to Public Testers - AirPods Pro 2 Get Hearing Aid Function in UK - Sponsored by Incogni: Take your personal data back with Incogni! Use code MACOSKEN and get 60% off an annual plan at incogni.com/macosken - DeepSeek and a newspaper publishing giant under cyberattack on Checklist No. 412 - online at checklist.libsyn.com - Catch Ken on Mastodon - @[email protected] - Chat with us in Patreon for as little as $1 a month. Support the show at Patreon.com/macosken - Send me an email: [email protected] or call (716)780-4080!

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0:00.0	This is Mac OS Ken.
0:08.8	A huge investment commitment from Apple, a round of OS betas for public testing people,
0:14.9	and AirPods go medical in the UK.
0:18.6	It is Tuesday, the 25th of February, 2025.
0:22.6	I'm Ken Ray, and this is news from MacOS Ken.
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0:45.3	This show is also supported by people like you, patrons through Patreon.
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1:01.9	Apple will spend more than $500 billion in the U.S. over the next four years.
1:08.0	That is the headline of a press release issued by the Cupertino company on Monday.
1:13.3	As part of this package of U.S. investments, the press release says Apple and partners will open a new
1:19.0	advanced manufacturing facility in Houston to produce servers that support Apple Intelligence.
1:25.4	Apple will also double its U.S. Advanced Manufacturing Fund,
1:29.3	creating an academy in Michigan to train the next generation of U.S. manufacturers,
1:34.4	and grow its research and development investments in the U.S. to support cutting-edge fields
1:39.7	like silicon engineering. As part of its new U.S. investments,
1:44.4	the press release says Apple will work
1:46.4	with manufacturing partners
1:47.8	to begin production of servers in Houston
1:50.0	later this year.
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