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John Ternus has effectively become Apple's design chief, working in the studio several times a week; OLED touch-screen MacBook Pro will be much lighter Bloomberg
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OpenAI's DevDay 2026 announcements to turn ChatGPT into a place to discover, launch, and use software could potentially disrupt the traditional app store model TechCrunch

Mark Gurman / Bloomberg ·

John Ternus has effectively become Apple's design chief, working in the studio several times a week; OLED touch-screen MacBook Pro will be much lighter

Also: A big update on the touch-screen MacBook Pro.

Sarah Perez / TechCrunch ·

OpenAI's DevDay 2026 announcements to turn ChatGPT into a place to discover, launch, and use software could potentially disrupt the traditional app store model

The focus of OpenAI's Dev Day on Tuesday may have been on its agentic assistants known as Dots, or its new AI models, but combined …

Chance Miller / 9to5Mac ·

Apple releases an update for iPhone 18 Pro Max devices on AT&T to address cellular failures; units that already lost service require hardware replacement

Apple has confirmed an issue causing a "small number" of iPhone 18 Pro Max devices on AT&T to lose cellular service.

Sarah Perez / TechCrunch ·

Apple says it is adding additional controls around "Full Disk Access" on macOS as AI agents have increased "the risks associated with this level of access"

Days after a journalist claimed that Meta's Muse app on Mac read their private messages

Stephen Nellis / Reuters ·

Volantis, which aims to use vertical-cavity surface-emitting lasers, like those used by the iPhone's Face ID, to connect AI chips and memory chips, raised $88M

San Francisco-based semiconductor startup Volantis on Thursday said it has raised $88 million in venture capital in an effort …

Zachary Small / New York Times ·

A profile of Xbox CEO Asha Sharma, who insists that "Xbox is not for sale" despite mass layoffs and divested studios since inheriting the flailing division

Asha Sharma didn't have any experience in video games when she became the chief executive of Xbox this year.

Financial Times ·

Analysis: Google, Apple, and Amazon each have more meetings with European parliament and European Commission officials than any individual European company

US corporations including Google, Apple and Amazon use their influence to push back against EU digital bloc rules.

Sam Rutherford / Engadget ·

Samsung Galaxy Tab S12 Ultra review: the new $1,400 tablet is an iPad Pro rival with a great OLED display, battery life, and performance, but it is pricey

Starting at $1,400, it also has an apex price. … The Android tablet market is a bit weird. There are countless budget options …

Mark Gurman / Bloomberg ·

Apple is set to launch its smart home expansion on October 13, including a hub with a 6" screen and an iMac G4-like design and a HomePod mini refresh

Apple Inc. plans to make its long-delayed push into the smart-home market on Oct. 13, marking a critical product expansion …

Dhruv Mohan / The Economic Times ·

Apple launches Apple Pay in India, letting eligible Axis Bank Visa and Mastercard credit cardholders add their cards to Apple Wallet on iPhone, iPad, and Watch

Apple Pay has finally launched in India, more than a decade after its US debut. The service is initially available on iPhone …

Joe Rossignol / MacRumors ·

Mark Gurman: Apple considered replacing ~5,000 AppleCare customer service workers with AI-powered agents, but it has put those plans on hold indefinitely

Apple recently considered laying off about 5,000 support employees, but it has put those plans on hold indefinitely, according to Bloomberg's Mark Gurman.

Clare Duffy / CNN ·

In a July letter to Rep. Jamie Raskin, Apple explained it removed ICEBlock and similar ICE-tracking apps in 2025 due to agent and detainee safety concerns

Tech giants Federal agencies Immigration

Stefania Palma / Financial Times ·

Litigation funder Burford Capital says it stands to gain up to $1.4B after a US jury ruled against Apple in a patent case, awarding $5.7B in damages to Taction

Litigation funder's share price jumps 9% after US jury's decision

Mark Gurman / Bloomberg ·

Meta's VR Glasses are the product Vision Pro should have been; sources say Apple Vision team is working on a revamped headset, but the work is on "life support"

Apple weighs what to do next with its headset.

Ashley Capoot / CNBC ·

A US federal jury awarded Taction Technology $5.7B+ in damages, finding Apple infringed haptics patents; Apple to appeal, says it "does not use Taction's" tech

A federal jury in San Diego awarded Taction Technology more than $5.7 billion in damages Friday after finding …

Reuters ·

Brazil's Lula da Silva signs an EO banning online betting; app stores and telecom providers must block platforms on Oct. 6; Congress has 120 days to approve it

Brazil's President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva on Friday announced a ban on online betting operations in Latin America's largest economy …

David Heaney / UploadVR ·

A look at Holograms, Meta's take on Apple Vision Pro's Personas, launching with a shoulders-up version this fall for WhatsApp calls on Ray-Ban Display glasses

Meta finally set a concrete timeline to ship realistic avatars, called Holograms, its take on Apple Vision Pro's Personas.

Akash Sriram / Reuters ·

Qualcomm says it has extended its global licensing pact with Apple, starting in April 2027; the partnership has been shaped by an April 2019 settlement

Qualcomm (QCOM.O) said on Thursday Apple (AAPL.O) has extended its patent-licensing agreement with the chip designer …

Bloomberg ·

Tencent launches TenPayGo, a payment app for foreign visitors to China that lets them pay tens of millions of merchants via Visa, Mastercard, and Apple Pay

Tencent Holdings Ltd. launched a standalone payment app for foreign visitors to China, stepping up competition against rival Ant Group Co.

Karissa Bell / Engadget ·

Meta previews hologram avatars for Meta VR Glasses and Ray-Ban Display that feel more natural than Apple's persona avatars, available in early access this fall

They're a notable improvement over the company's earlier attempts at digital likeness.

Michael Acton / Financial Times ·

Court docs: OpenAI says Apple's ChatGPT integration to power Apple Intelligence on iPhones "dramatically underperformed" after it launched in 2024

Court documents reveal how companies' ties unravelled while the iPhone maker has since turned to a Google-powered 'Siri AI'

Semafor ·

Scott Bessent is emerging as a frontrunner for the AI czar position; other names include WH OSTP Director Michael Kratsios and OPM Director Scott Kupor

THE SCOOP

Mark Gurman / Bloomberg ·

Apple is developing prototypes for a screenless health and fitness tracker similar to Whoop but hasn't decided whether to release the product

Apple Inc. is developing a screenless health and fitness tracker similar to Whoop Inc.'s wrist-worn device, part of an effort to rethink …

John Higgins / The Verge ·

Apple announces new $350 Beats 360 headphones, with IPX4 rating, swappable ear cups, a replaceable battery, ANC, Find My support, and more

Everyone has seen someone at the gym or running around their neighborhood wearing headphones that were never designed for workouts. Quite often those headphones are Beats.

Julian Chokkattu / Wired ·

Adobe launches its free Premiere video editing app on Android, nearly a year after its iOS launch, to replace Premiere Rush, set to lose support on September 30

The Android version of Premiere has unique layouts on candy bar phones and foldable devices. It's free to use and available today.

Tim Hardwick / MacRumors ·

Apple quietly updates its press release to say new Photographic Styles texture and grain controls are limited to iPhone 18 Pro models and the iPhone Duo

Apple's new Texture and Grain controls for Photographic Styles are not available on iPhones other than the latest iPhone 18 Pro models …

David Phelan / Forbes ·

Apple unveils Apple Music Hall, a 600-person live music venue built in its London headquarters at Battersea Power Station with two recording and mixing studios

This voice experience is generated by AI. Learn more. … Apple has just announced a new live music venue, built into its London headquarters at Battersea Power Station.

Marcus Mendes / 9to5Mac ·

Apple v. OpenAI: Apple asks the court to let its own experts review forensic images used in the case, and seeks documents tied to parts of OpenAI's hardware R&D

Apple has asked the court overseeing its lawsuit against OpenAI and other defendants to let its own experts review forensic images used …

Aaron Holmes / The Information ·

Xbox plans to lay off hundreds of employees this week in its second major staff cut in 2026, as it also plans to consolidate several of its game studios

Xbox is planning to lay off hundreds of employees this week in its second major staff reduction this year, according to someone briefed on the plans.

Nilay Patel / The Verge ·

Q&A with Mark Gurman on the iPhone Duo, breaking Apple news, Apple's AI-native devices, Tim Cook staying as executive chair, John Ternus, Johny Srouji, and more

Today, I'm talking with Mark Gurman, who is the world's best-sourced Apple reporter

Elizabeth Chamberlain / iFixit News ·

IPhone 18 Pro teardown: its SoC now sits outside the logic board for better cooling, the variable aperture is thoughtfully designed but hard to repair, and more

The iPhone 18 Pro's little mechanical pupil is irresistible. A bunch of moving parts make for a good excuse to put our brand new camera under the microscope.

Mark Gurman / Bloomberg ·

A closer look at the upcoming Siri AI-powered home hub, a key pillar of Apple's strategy for the home; sources: Apple started cutting Fitness+ staff

Also: What happened with the iPhone Duo Pencil and layoffs at Fitness+.

Georgia Hennessy / Business Insider ·

Meta's personal AI agent Muse climbs to No. 1 among free apps on Apple's US App Store, ahead of ChatGPT; Muse launched on September 8

Mark Zuckerberg's ambition to bring "personal superintelligence" to everyone may be taking shape, one download at a time.

Reuters ·

Apple plans to launch Apple Pay in India next month with Axis Bank's credit cards; Axis Bank is the fourth-largest credit card issuer in India

Apple (AAPL.O) is poised to launch Apple Pay in India next month with Axis Bank's (AXBK.NS) credit cards, three sources familiar with the matter said …

Jay Peters / The Verge ·

Meta launches a Mac app for Muse after releasing the AI agent on iOS, Android, and the web earlier this month, allowing it to manage files, pull from apps, more

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Hassan Ali Kanu / Politico ·

A federal judge denies OpenAI's bid to see SpaceXAI's confidential settlement with Apple in an antitrust case, finding the materials irrelevant after a review

A federal judge has denied OpenAI's request to force the disclosure of a settlement agreement between Apple and SpaceXAI …

Chance Miller / 9to5Mac ·

Apple Watch Series 12 and Ultra 4 review: new colors and materials are fantastic, the Health Sensing System is a big upgrade, but many features are coming later

The Apple Watch Series 12 and Apple Watch Ultra 4 are all about what's happening underneath.

Andrew Cunningham / Ars Technica ·

MacOS 27 Golden Gate review: addresses many Tahoe-era Liquid Glass issues and has useful new AI features, but no Intel support and uses a lot of storage space

It's both a "Snow Leopard update" and a major leap for Apple Intelligence.

Hassan Ali Kanu / Politico ·

A US judge orders X and SpaceXAI to explain why they dropped antitrust claims against Apple, after OpenAI's request for information on the purported agreement

The federal judge overseeing an antitrust case by Elon Musk's companies against Apple and OpenAI is demanding to see any settlement agreements …

John Gruber / Daring Fireball ·

The iPhone Duo's squat, tablet-like outer display is a compromise, and a book-shaped foldable may lack broad appeal; its right-side UI bias is akin to a book's

I loved the keynote's "You want a great opening scene?" opening, which ran through a series of genre-inspired hook-you-from-the-first-shot pretend movie openings.

The Information ·

Apple is developing AI servers that could use M8 Ultra chips connected via Nvidia's NVLink Fusion, with plans to sell them to developers and others

Apple has been working on plans for an enterprise server using its own chips that could incorporate networking equipment from Nvidia …

David Welch / Bloomberg ·

GM plans to integrate Apple CarPlay and Android Auto in its latest infotainment system, three years after upsetting some consumers by removing them from its EVs

General Motors Co. is integrating Apple Inc.'s CarPlay in its latest infotainment system, three years after upsetting some consumers …

Benjamin Mayo / 9to5Mac ·

Apple says iCloud+ now includes Apple TV and Arcade for no extra fee in 100+ countries, and Apple Music Select, offering ad-free radio stations, in some markets

In more than 100 countries, Apple has launched a new initiative that bundles Apple TV and Apple Arcade subscriptions into iCloud+, at no extra charge.

Mark Gurman / Bloomberg ·

Apple's H1 2027 plans include an iPhone 18e, an A20 iPhone 18, an A20 Pro iPhone Air 2, an OLED iPad Air, an A19 Pro MacBook Neo, and an M6 MacBook Air

Apple Inc. just launched some major new products, including the iPhone Duo, the iPhone 18 Pro line, AirPods 5 earbuds and fresh smartwatches.

Mike Scarcella / Reuters ·

Filing: X and SpaceXAI move to dismiss their federal antitrust lawsuit in Texas against Apple, resolving accusations of Apple monopolizing smartphone markets

Elon Musk's X Corp and SpaceXAI <SPCX.O> said on Monday they have resolved their lawsuit in federal court in Texas …

Mark Gurman / Bloomberg ·

IPhone Duo will usher foldables into the mainstream, just as iPhone did with smartphones; sources: iPhone game controllers will launch under the Beats brand

Also: The company prepares a retail store shake-up.

Joe Rossignol / MacRumors ·

Spec sheets show Apple's C2 modem is used in iPhone Duo and 18 Pro worldwide, and in iPhone 18 Pro Max everywhere except the US, where it likely uses Qualcomm

As noted by Nicolas Lellouche, who writes for the French tech website Numerama, Apple has updated its tech specs pages …

Natalie Lung / Bloomberg ·

Some experts say Siri Recap and Live Rewind, always-listening AI features in new Apple Watches, could test eavesdropping laws despite privacy protections

Apple Inc.'s new always-listening artificial intelligence features for the Apple Watch Series 12 and Ultra 4 could put eavesdropping laws to the test, according to legal experts.

Mark Spoonauer / Tom's Guide ·

An interview with Apple CEO John Ternus and Greg Joswiak on making the iPhone Duo, minimizing the crease, uninspiring Android foldables, the price, and more

'I was like, yes, that's it...this is what I want'

T-Mobile ·

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Hartley Charlton / MacRumors ·

Apple unveils AppleCare One Family, extending AppleCare coverage to every eligible device in an Apple Family Sharing group of up to 6 people for $49.99/month

Apple today announced AppleCare One Family, a new option for U.S. customers that extends AppleCare coverage to every eligible device across …

Sarah Perez / TechCrunch ·

Apple unveils a new Health app with Apple Intelligence, featuring an Insights tab, "readiness" and Health Age metrics, and more, rolling out later in 2026

Alongside the new Apple Watch Series 12 and Ultra 4, Apple on Wednesday introduced a redesigned Apple Health app …

Lily Hay Newman / Wired ·

New opt-in Apple Watch Siri audio features can listen to and transcribe conversations all day; Apple says raw audio is inaccessible and deleted after processing

The new Apple Watch includes several "intelligent" listening features that have privacy and security baked in.

Cameron Faulkner / The Verge ·

Apple raises iPhone prices by $100 on all of the older models it is offering, including the iPhone 16, the iPhone 17 lineup, as well as the iPhone Air

The price increase impacts the iPhone 16, the full iPhone 17 lineup, as well as the iPhone Air.

Terrence O'Brien / The Verge ·

The iPhone Duo supports Apple Pencil and features iOS 27 revamped for multitasking that auto-adjusts controls and apps depending on screen size and orientation

iPhone Duo is also the first iPhone to support Apple Pencil. … Obviously, part of the appeal of a foldable phone is all that additional screen real estate.

Igor Bonifacic / Engadget ·