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This week Apple embraced RCS in to make green bubbles less painful on iMessage, Xiaomi released its first car, Polestar had its phone leaked, Google’s own witness blurted out secret payment percentages in court and Microsoft finally decided to retire the Bing brand for AI, going with Copilot instead.

Episode 173

My video about phone makers making cars: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E0PWmj9ovtw

This video on Nebula: https://nebula.tv/videos/tfc-apple-did-it

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Writing & Research: Tristan Rayner
Music by Edemski: https://soundcloud.com/edemski

Stock assets: Getty Images, AP Archive

0:00 Apple RCS & iMessage
1:13 The Brief
3:21 Xiaomi car, Polestar phone
5:16 Google’s shady payments
7:58 Bye, Bing