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172 articlesLast updated 2026-11-05 00:34 UTC
us tech 7 1d ago 3 min read

Apple to check 'Anyone with the link' iCloud shares for 'harmful content' starting with iOS 27.3

Apple says that starting with version 27.3 of iOS, iPadOS, macOS and visionOS, anything shared through an open iCloud link will be made accessible to the company for a harmful-content check, and those shares are no longer end-to-end encrypted. Apple has not defined 'harmful content' or explained how the checks work. The public release is planned for December.
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ru tech 7 1d ago 4 min read

Sekoia Ties Mobile Hacking Campaign Using Patched iPhone and Android Flaws to Russian Intelligence Group APT29

French security firm Sekoia said today, Nov. 4, that it assesses with moderate to high confidence that APT29, tied to Russia's Foreign Intelligence Service, ran a watering-hole campaign against iPhone and Android users. Every flaw used has already been patched by Apple and Google, so updated phones are outside the attack's reach. Sekoia has not established how many devices were infected.
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us tech 7 2d ago 4 min read

Wired Investigation: 400+ Apps and Domains Hid Sexual Deepfake Tools, Passed Apple and Google Review

A network of more than 400 connected apps and domains, apparently run by Chinese developers, posed as pet portrait makers and workout coaches while hiding AI tools for sexual and violent deepfakes. Apple, Google and Meta all say they ban this content, yet the apps cleared review, took payments through Apple Pay and Google Pay, and drew customers through Meta ads. The operator went quiet and appeared to scrub its public ties after being contacted.
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us tech 6 2d ago 4 min read

Apple's annual filing warns AI agents may take actions "not directed, instructed or authorized"

Apple's 10-K, filed Tuesday, Nov. 3, adds detailed risk language saying AI agents can exceed permissions, hide actions and complete transactions on their own, exposing the company to lawsuits and reputational harm. Apple has no agentic product yet, but it says it may have only limited power to control third-party agents running on its devices.
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us finance 7 2d ago 4 min read

Apple Retakes World's Most Valuable Company Title From Nvidia by Roughly $100 Billion

Apple closed Friday, Oct. 30, at a $5.03 trillion market value, ahead of Nvidia's $4.93 trillion, even though both stocks fell. The shift came as investors punished tech giants burning cash on AI buildouts. The gap is only about 2% of Apple's value, and the component-cost and smartphone-demand problems that critics cite are still unresolved.
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us tech 6 3d ago 4 min read

Apple Sets 18+ Minimum Rating for Dating Apps and Romantic AI Companions, With Developer Declarations Due Jan. 12

Apple announced Monday, Nov. 2, that any App Store app with dating features or a virtual companion that engages users in sexual or romantic content must carry a minimum 18+ rating. The new questions go live in App Store Connect on Nov. 16, and every app must answer them by Jan. 12, 2027. Apple's announcement leaves open how it will verify developers' answers and what happens to apps that miss the deadline.
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us tech 7 3d ago 4 min read

Apple's Inventory Is Up 154% and Memory Purchase Commitments Rose $33 Billion Since June

Apple's September-quarter results came with new detail on how hard memory costs are hitting: inventory of $14.54 billion, $33 billion more in purchase obligations, and a COO who would not rule out more price hikes. The December gross margin forecast of 45% to 46% sits below the 46.9% the September quarter would have posted without tariff refunds. Apple's annual filing is due Tuesday, Nov. 3.
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us tech 7 4d ago 4 min read

Apple Beats Estimates in Ternus' First Report as CEO, but Margin Forecast Comes Up Short and Shares Slide After Hours

Apple posted $114.5 billion in September-quarter revenue and $2.10 a share, both above Wall Street estimates, in John Ternus' first report as CEO. The December-quarter gross margin forecast of 45% to 46% fell below the 46.3% analyst average, and shares were indicated about 2.9% lower in extended trading. Memory costs and supply limits now set the terms for the holiday quarter.
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us tech 7 4d ago 3 min read

Apple's Ternus Faces First Earnings Call Today as Memory Costs Weigh on Profit Estimates

John Ternus hosts his first earnings call as Apple CEO today, Nov. 2, with analysts expecting revenue up nearly 11% but profit growth at its weakest in six quarters. Memory-chip costs are the squeeze. The holiday-quarter forecast will decide how the market reads the quarter.
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us tech 4 5d ago 4 min read

OneKey Founder Warns iPhone 11 and Older Models Have Unpatchable Flaws That Put Crypto Seed Phrases at Risk

OneKey founder Yishi Wang says iPhones from the 11 series and earlier carry chip-level flaws Apple cannot fix with software, and he urges crypto holders to move seed phrases off them. OneKey sells hardware wallets, and Wang himself says the flaws do not automatically hand an attacker the funds. Strong passcodes and limited physical access change the risk a lot.
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us tech 5 5d ago 4 min read

iPhone Duo Wait Time Hits 89 Days, UBS Says, as Apple Calls Cracked-Screen Reports a 'Small Number' of Units

UBS Evidence Lab measures an average 89-day wait for Apple's $2,000-plus iPhone Duo across more than 30 markets, slightly shorter than a week earlier. Apple says the cracked inner displays affect only a small number of units, and UBS analyst David Vogt says the display reports are not the main reason waits are easing. The next data points are weekly Pro and Pro Max wait times, which Vogt says would show whether buyers are drifting away from the foldable.
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us tech 5 5d ago 3 min read

Apple CEO John Ternus: Company Won't 'Ship AI for AI's Sake' After Years of Lagging Charges

In a Wired interview with Steven Levy, conducted Oct. 30, new Apple CEO John Ternus said he likes where Apple stands on AI and that the company will use it without making it the selling point. The upgraded Siri only arrived this summer, so his first full product cycle as CEO is the test.
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us tech 7 Oct 30 4 min read

Apple Closes as World's Most Valuable Company at $5.03 Trillion After Nvidia Drops 4.2%

Apple finished Friday, Oct. 30, with a $5.03 trillion market cap, ahead of Nvidia at $4.93 trillion, after Nvidia shares fell 4.2% and Apple's slipped 1.2%. Apple had topped Nvidia only intraday a week earlier. Apple reports earnings Monday, Nov. 2, and Nvidia follows Nov. 18.
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kr tech 7 Oct 28 4 min read

South Korea fines Google and Apple $47.6 million over in-app payment rules

South Korea's media regulator fined Google 42.9 billion won and Apple 20.81 billion won, 63.7 billion won combined, on Oct. 28 for effectively forcing developers onto their payment systems. It is the first enforcement of a 2021 law, and it came more than three years after the penalties were first proposed. Both companies now have three months from receipt of the orders to allow external payment links and revise their commission structures.
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us finance 6 Oct 23 4 min read

Apple Briefly Passes Nvidia in Market Value Friday, Then Nvidia Retakes Lead at About $5.1 Trillion Each

Apple topped Nvidia in market value for part of Friday's session, Oct. 23, before Nvidia moved back in front, with both companies near $5.1 trillion. Apple has not closed ahead of Nvidia since July 27. Apple's Nov. 2 earnings report, the first under CEO John Ternus, is the next test, and Nvidia reports around Nov. 18.
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us tech 6 Oct 20 4 min read

Citizen Lab Finds Pegasus Spyware on Belgrade University Rector's iPhone Days Before Serbia's Vote

Citizen Lab says it found with high confidence that Pegasus infected the iPhone of University of Belgrade Rector Vladan Đokić in 2026, and separately noted an Apple spyware warning sent to a prosecutor who worked on a Kushner-linked corruption case. Nobody has been identified as the operator, and Serbia votes Oct. 25. Analysis of the prosecutor's phone is still underway.
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us tech 7 Oct 20 4 min read

Apple Says Safari Now Blocks Email-Based Ad Tracking, Naming No Companies in Its Explanation

Apple published a blog post on Monday, Oct. 19, explaining why Safari's WebKit engine now blocks the web domains of ad-identity firms including LiveRamp, ID5 and The Trade Desk's UID 2.0. Apple says email addresses have replaced cookies as the tracking tool. The ad industry says the change shrinks the audience it can target, and how it applies to publishers' own data is still unclear.
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us tech 7 Oct 19 5 min read

Test Accounts Posing as 13-Year-Olds Downloaded 135 Nudify Apps From Apple and Google Stores, Tech Transparency Project Says

Three days after Apple rewrote its App Review Guidelines, a Tech Transparency Project report released today, Oct. 19, says test accounts registered to a 13-year-old reached 135 apps with nudification features, even with parental controls on. Apple and Google both ban such apps, and the group's findings point to developer-supplied age ratings as the weak link.
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us tech 6 Oct 19 4 min read

iVerify Details P7 DarkSword, a New iPhone Spyware Variant That Steals Keychain and Crypto Wallet Data

Security firm iVerify disclosed on Oct. 8 a new variant of the DarkSword iPhone exploit kit that pulls passwords, notes, photos and crypto wallet data and takes live commands from attackers. The exploit files target iOS 18, and Apple patched the original DarkSword in iOS 26.3.1, so the practical risk falls on phones that have not been updated.
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us tech 6 Oct 18 4 min read

Always-On AI Wearables From Amazon, Apple and Meta Collide With Wiretap Laws Written Decades Ago

Amazon launched its Bee Frontier and Bee Eclipse wearables on Thursday, Oct. 15, joining Apple, Meta and a crop of startups selling devices that listen all day. Experts say state wiretap laws drafted for a different era may expose the people wearing them, and whether AI that interprets speech without saving audio counts as an interception has barely been tested.
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us politics 5 Oct 18 5 min read

EEOC Announces String of Religious Accommodation Settlements, From $20,000 to $150,000 at Apple

The EEOC has announced settlements with Apple, a Georgia grocery chain, a North Carolina security firm, a California mail contractor, a Wisconsin snowpark and a New York coffee shop over religious accommodation claims, and sued Blue Bell Creameries over a beard request. The payouts are modest, but the pattern is clear: under the Trump-era EEOC, religious liberty at work is a stated enforcement priority, and the Supreme Court's 2023 Groff ruling makes the employer's defense harder.
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us tech 6 Oct 17 3 min read

Apple iPhone Duo Delivery Dates Slip to January 25, 2027 Within Hours of Preorders Opening

Preorders for Apple's $1,999 foldable iPhone Duo opened Friday, Oct. 16, and U.S. delivery estimates hit January 25, 2027 within about 30 minutes. Apple called the demand "nothing short of extraordinary" but has not said how many units it has. The phone goes on sale Oct. 23, and whether walk-in stock exists is still unanswered.
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eu economy 7 Oct 17 4 min read

EU Weighs Widening Corporate Levy to Reach Apple, Meta and Google, Six Officials Tell FT

The European Commission is considering expanding its CORE levy on large companies so US tech giants pay more without being named, six EU officials told the Financial Times on Oct. 7. Any change needs all 27 member states to agree, and Trump has threatened a 100% tariff on countries that tax US digital firms.
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us tech 6 Oct 17 4 min read

Apple Rewrites App Store Rules to Ban AI 'Nudify' Apps and Hidden Post-Approval Features

Apple updated its App Review Guidelines on Friday, Oct. 16, requiring developers to proactively prevent and remove AI-generated nonconsensual intimate imagery, and adding a new rule against hidden or dormant features. Sexually explicit apps were already banned, and dozens of nudify apps still got through, so the test is enforcement, not wording.
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us tech 8 Oct 16 4 min read

Meta releases Muse Spark Open weights, tuned with Apple for M5 Ultra Mac Studios

Meta released the weights of Muse Spark Open on Thursday, Oct. 15, an 816-billion-parameter model it calls the most capable US open-weight model to date. It was optimized with Apple to run locally on two M5 Ultra Mac Studios, but the 512GB version of that machine has no announced price or ship date beyond "late October." The benchmark claims are Meta's own.
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us tech 5 Oct 11 3 min read

Apple Tells EU Regulators It Will Hire Huxe Staff and License the Shuttered Startup's Tech

Apple told the European Commission on June 9 that it can make job offers to certain Huxe employees and take a non-exclusive license to the startup's IP. Huxe's audio service ended May 28, and the deal is at least Apple's fourth AI-related transaction disclosed this year. Whether U.S. regulators will treat structures like this as mergers is still undecided.
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us economy 4 Oct 4 4 min read

Gen Z Walks Away From Online Carts When Apple Pay or PayPal Isn't There, Studies Show

A PYMNTS Intelligence study found 36% of Gen Z shoppers abandoned an online cart in the last 30 days because their preferred payment method wasn't offered, nearly double the overall average. The catch: the loudest numbers come from research tied to PayPal, and a chunk of the behavior traces back to Gen Z wanting buy-now-pay-later financing, not just convenience.
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in tech 6 Oct 4 4 min read

India Orders Apple to Pull Jack Dorsey's Bitchat From App Store, Again Won't Say What's Illegal About It

Apple removed Jack Dorsey's offline messaging app Bitchat from its India App Store on Saturday, October 3, 2026, after a government order under Section 69A of the IT Act. The notice doesn't say what content is illegal, and it's the second time in three months India has gone after the app, which can relay encrypted messages over Bluetooth without internet or cell service.
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us tech 6 Oct 2 3 min read

Apple to Require 'Very Explicit User Action' Before Apps Get Full Disk Access on Mac, Citing AI Agent Risks

Apple announced October 2 that it's tightening Full Disk Access controls on macOS, warning that AI agents with broad system access pose growing privacy risks. The move follows a disputed claim that Meta's Muse app read a journalist's private messages and a separate Wired report on a ChatGPT Mac app flaw. Apple gave zero specifics on what the new controls look like or when they arrive.
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us tech 7 Sep 29 4 min read

Apple Patches iOS 26 Flaw Already Exploited Against Targeted Individuals, Four in Five iPhones Still Exposed

Apple shipped iOS 26.7.1 on Monday to close a CoreGraphics bug the company admits was used in a sophisticated attack on specific people, and roughly 80% of iPhone owners are still running the vulnerable software. Apple won't say who got hit or who's behind it. Update now, ask questions later.
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us tech 7 Sep 26 4 min read

Apple Ordered to Pay $5.7 Billion in Largest Patent Verdict in U.S. History

A San Diego federal jury ordered Apple to pay Taction Technology more than $5.7 billion Friday for infringing two haptic feedback patents used in the Taptic Engine. Apple says it doesn't use the technology and will appeal, and the jury didn't even find the infringement willful, so this fight is far from over.
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us economy 5 Sep 23 4 min read

GM Brings Apple CarPlay and Android Auto Back to 2027 Silverado and Sierra After Three-Year Ban

GM spent three years telling customers they didn't need CarPlay or Android Auto. On September 15, the company reversed course, building both into the 2027 Chevrolet Silverado and GMC Sierra. Turns out you can't out-engineer what people already carry in their pocket.
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us finance 6 Sep 22 4 min read

Apple Opens $250 Million Siri Settlement Claims, iPhone Owners Can File for Up to $95

Apple started taking claims Monday in a $250 million settlement over Siri features it advertised but didn't deliver on time. Owners of iPhone 15 Pro, 15 Pro Max, and every iPhone 16 model bought between June 2024 and March 2025 have until December 21, 2026 to file, but Apple admits no wrongdoing and nobody sees a check until 2027 at the earliest.
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us tech 4 Sep 21 3 min read

Apple and Google Post Job Listings Seeking Stablecoin and Tokenization Experts

Apple and Google both listed stablecoin, tokenized deposit, and blockchain expertise as preferred qualifications in payments-related job postings this month. Samsung did the same on September 18. None of the three companies has announced an actual stablecoin product, but the hiring language marks a shift from vague 'digital finance' talk to explicit blockchain payment infrastructure.
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us finance 6 Sep 20 4 min read

Kalshi, Coinbase and Kraken's Parent File Same-Day Bids for Never-Expiring Futures on Apple, Tesla and Nvidia Stock

Kalshi, Coinbase Derivatives and Kraken parent Payward all filed with federal regulators on September 18 to launch perpetual futures on individual US stocks, a no-expiration derivative already common in crypto trading. None of the products has been approved, and the filings land just three days after a Senate crypto market-structure bill collapsed.
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gb tech 7 Sep 19 4 min read

Apple and Privacy Groups Tell UK Tribunal: Stop Denying You Ordered an iCloud Backdoor

Apple, Liberty and Privacy International told London's Investigatory Powers Tribunal on Thursday that the Home Office's refusal to confirm or deny its secret encryption order is 'farcical' since the order has been public knowledge for over a year. The government says confirming it would help terrorists and hostile states, but the tribunal already let the case proceed openly once before. A ruling on the secrecy question is expected later, with a full hearing on the underlying order unlikely before 2027.
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us tech 5 Sep 17 3 min read

Apple Reportedly Building an Enterprise AI Server With Its Own M8 Ultra Chips, Eyeing 2029

The Information reports Apple is developing a business AI server built on future M8 Ultra chips, its first server product since the Xserve died in 2011. Nothing ships before 2029, the project could still get killed, and Apple hasn't confirmed a word of it publicly.
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us tech 6 Sep 15 4 min read

Apple Files Supreme Court Brief Fighting Contempt Ruling Over App Store Fees, No Argument Expected Before 2027

Apple filed its opening merits brief at the Supreme Court on Monday, September 14, 2026, arguing it can't be held in contempt for charging commissions an injunction never mentioned. Epic Games has until November 13 to respond, and the docket shows no argument date yet, meaning developers keep operating under the current zero-commission rule on external purchase links for a while longer.
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us tech 6 Sep 15 4 min read

Musk's X Corp and SpaceXAI Drop Apple From Antitrust Suit, Keep Pressing OpenAI Monopoly Claims

Elon Musk's X Corp and SpaceXAI told a Texas federal court Monday they've resolved their claims against Apple in the year-old AI antitrust suit, dismissing them with prejudice and no explanation. OpenAI stays in the fight alone, now demanding to see the Apple settlement terms before a summary judgment deadline hits.
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cn tech 7 Sep 15 4 min read

Apple Releases iOS 27 With Siri AI in Beta, Running Partly on Google's Cloud and Gemini Models

Apple shipped iOS 27, macOS 27 Golden Gate and related updates today, September 14, 2026, headlined by a rebuilt Siri AI assistant that's still in beta and requires a waitlist. The assistant leans on Apple's own models plus Google Cloud infrastructure and Gemini-assisted development, and it won't work in the EU or China at launch.
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us tech 7 Sep 9 3 min read

Apple Unveils iPhone Duo Foldable at $1,999, Skips Base iPhone 18 in Ternus's First Keynote

Apple held its 'Surprise and Shine' event Wednesday, revealing the iPhone Duo foldable at $1,999, the iPhone 18 Pro and Pro Max, new AirPods and Apple Watches, and no vanilla iPhone 18. New CEO John Ternus ran his first keynote since replacing Tim Cook, and the promised home hub and Apple TV box never showed up.
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us tech 3 Sep 9 3 min read

Samsung Ends Update Support for Galaxy Z Fold 3, Flip 3 and Watch 4 as Apple's First Foldable iPhone Looms

Samsung has pulled the Galaxy Z Fold 3, Z Flip 3, and Galaxy Watch 4 series from its security update list after five years, fulfilling the support window it promised at launch. The cutoff lands the same week Amazon dropped the newer Galaxy Z Fold 8 to $1,849.99 and Apple was set to unveil its first foldable iPhone this afternoon, with TrendForce estimating a $2,099 to $2,299 starting price.
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gb tech 7 Sep 9 4 min read

UK Government Commits to Legislation Forcing Apple and Google to Block Nude Images on Kids' Phones

Culture Secretary Lisa Nandy told Parliament on Tuesday that a three-month deadline for Apple and Google to block nude images on children's devices had passed without a deal, and the government will now draft legislation. The plan sounds obvious: kids shouldn't be able to take or send nude selfies on a phone. The harder questions, how it gets built, how fast it becomes law, and what it means for privacy, are still unanswered.
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us tech 6 Sep 8 4 min read

Apple's First Ternus-Era Event Arrives Wednesday: Foldable iPhone Ultra Priced Above $2,000, No Cheap Model Until 2027

Since John Ternus took over as Apple's CEO from Tim Cook on September 1, his first product event lands Wednesday, September 9, with three high-end iPhones and zero budget options. The foldable iPhone Ultra is expected to start near $1,999 to $2,299, and analysts still disagree on whether it ships alongside the Pro models or gets delayed like the iPhone X did in 2017.
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us finance 6 Sep 8 4 min read

Inflation Data, Oracle Earnings and Apple's New CEO Test Define Holiday-Shortened Trading Week

Markets return from Labor Day into a four-day week built around Thursday's PPI and Friday's CPI, both feeding directly into the Fed's September 15-16 meeting. Oracle reports earnings Tuesday, Apple holds its iPhone launch under new CEO John Ternus, and the CME FedWatch tool has traders pricing roughly a 60% chance of a rate hike, not a cut.
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us tech 6 Sep 7 4 min read

Huawei Unveils $2,980 Trifold Phone Two Days Before Apple's Foldable iPhone Reveal

Huawei launched its Mate XT 2 trifold smartphone on Monday, September 7, with Xiaomi's 18 Fold arriving the same day, both landing just before Apple's September 9 event where a foldable iPhone is expected. The bigger story isn't the fold, it's the chip inside: Huawei says its new Kirin 9050 Pro was built under a homegrown design approach meant to route around U.S. export controls that were supposed to keep this exact thing from happening.
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us tech 5 Sep 7 3 min read

Phil Schiller Steps Down From App Store as Apple Pushes to Raise Margins, Bloomberg Reports

Longtime Apple executive Phil Schiller handed off leadership of the App Store and Apple's product events last week, according to Bloomberg's Mark Gurman. He says Schiller didn't want to be the guy squeezing more revenue out of developers just as new CEO John Ternus and services chief Eddy Cue look to do exactly that.
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us tech 6 Sep 5 4 min read

Kai-Fu Lee Says US-China AI Gap Has Shrunk to Six Months, Calls It an iPhone vs Android Race

Kai-Fu Lee, the former Google China chief who now runs 01.AI, told Bloomberg's Mishal Husain that Chinese AI labs have closed a three-to-four-year gap with US rivals down to about six months, using a fraction of the GPU power. His framing: OpenAI and Anthropic built the iPhone, Chinese labs are building Android, and Android usually wins on reach even if it doesn't win on margin.
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gb finance 7 Sep 4 3 min read

Apple Faces $2.7 Billion UK Lawsuit Claiming App Tracking Rules Favored Its Own Ads

A former UK antitrust regulator filed a £2 billion ($2.7 billion) lawsuit against Apple on Thursday, claiming its App Tracking Transparency rules were tougher on outside developers than on Apple's own advertising business. Apple says the rules apply equally to everyone. This is Apple's third ATT-related fight before London's Competition Appeal Tribunal, and it still needs to be certified before it goes anywhere.
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us tech 7 Sep 1 4 min read

New Apple CEO John Ternus Sends First Staff Memo, Teases 'Huge Launch Next Week' While Inheriting an AI Catch-Up Fight

John Ternus, who formally became Apple's second CEO of the millennium on Tuesday, sent his first staff memo pointing straight at the September 9 iPhone event. Behind the celebratory tone sits a harder problem: Apple is still playing catch-up on AI, leaning on a Google Gemini deal Ternus didn't negotiate, and passing memory-chip price hikes on to customers.
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us tech 8 Sep 1 4 min read

Apple's John Ternus Takes Over as CEO, Immediately Points Staff Toward September 9 iPhone Event

Tim Cook's 15-year run as Apple CEO ended Tuesday, and hardware chief John Ternus sent his first staff memo hyping next week's iPhone launch. Ternus inherits a $4.6 trillion company facing a memory-chip price crunch, an AI strategy leaning on rival Google's Gemini, and zero public track record on the regulatory fights Apple can't avoid.
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us tech 6 Sep 1 4 min read

Apple Says Ex-Engineer's MacBook Backs Claim That Stolen Circuit Files Were Used at OpenAI

Apple's Aug. 31 court filing says forensic analysis of a former engineer's laptop shows he downloaded and used a confidential Apple circuit schematic while working at OpenAI, then told a colleague to destroy evidence once he learned Apple was investigating. OpenAI calls the whole case "a mess of Apple's own making" and blames Apple's own security practices, so a judge will have to sort out who's right come October.
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us tech 5 Aug 30 3 min read

Nvidia Unveils RTX Spark Chip to Challenge Apple's Grip on On-Device AI

Nvidia's new Arm-based RTX Spark superchip, shown at Computex Taipei, runs 120-billion-parameter AI models locally on laptops costing $3,000 to $4,000, directly targeting the on-device AI market Apple's M-series chips have owned for years. Nvidia hasn't named Apple as its rival, but the specs and pricing tell a different story.
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us tech 7 Aug 30 3 min read

Tim Cook Hands Apple to John Ternus Tuesday. Wall Street Asks If Apple Repeats Amazon's Post-Bezos Stock Slump

Tim Cook's 15-year run as Apple CEO ends Tuesday, September 1, when John Ternus takes over and Cook shifts to executive chairman. The Motley Fool's Reuben Gregg Brewer is floating a comparison to Amazon, whose stock badly lagged the Nasdaq-100 and S&P 500 since Jeff Bezos left the top job in 2021. It's a fair question to ask, but it's speculation dressed as analysis, and Apple's stock sitting within 10% of its all-time high says the market isn't buying the doom scenario yet.
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us tech 7 Aug 30 4 min read

Apple's John Ternus Takes Over as CEO Tuesday, and Bloomberg Reports He's Already Planning a Management Shake-Up

John Ternus officially becomes Apple's CEO on Tuesday, September 1, with Tim Cook shifting to executive chairman after 15 years. Bloomberg's Mark Gurman reports Ternus is preparing to overhaul a management team that has run Apple's culture for decades, on top of a design-team reshuffle already underway. The bigger question investors want answered: can a hardware engineer fix Apple's AI problem.
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us economy 6 Aug 30 4 min read

Apple's $60 Billion Texas Manufacturing Pledge Leans Heavily on Foxconn's Capital, Not Apple's

Since the Houston Advanced Manufacturing Center opened August 13, Apple and Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick have touted a $60 billion Texas commitment as Tim Cook's last big move before handing the CEO job to John Ternus on September 1. CNBC's reporting shows a lot of that money is Foxconn's factory investment, not Apple's, while Apple reportedly keeps testing a Chinese chip supplier the same administration could restrict.")
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us tech 4 Aug 29 3 min read

Apple Raises Apple TV Price to $14.99 a Month, Tripling the 2019 Launch Cost

Apple hiked Apple TV's monthly price from $12.99 to $14.99 and the annual plan from $99 to $119, effective Friday, August 28. It's the fourth increase in four years, and the Apple One individual bundle went up too. Streaming got more content, more sports, and now a much bigger bill.
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us tech 5 Aug 25 4 min read

Apple Puts Its First 2-Nanometer Chip in a $899 Mac Mini, Ships Its Priciest Mac Studio Yet

Apple rolled out new Mac mini and Mac Studio models on Tuesday with the M6 and M5 Ultra chips, both built for running AI models locally. The Mac mini's starting price has jumped from $599 to $899 over the past year, and Apple points to rising memory chip costs as the reason. Both machines ship September 22, 2026.
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us finance 6 Aug 23 3 min read

Apple's $877 Billion Buyback Machine Hits a CEO Change on September 1

Tim Cook has spent $877 billion buying back Apple stock since 2011, shrinking the share count by 44% and juicing every remaining share's claim on the company. Cook hands the CEO job to John Ternus on September 1, 2026, and the only real question is whether Apple keeps writing nine-figure buyback checks or starts spending on something else.
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us tech 6 Aug 22 4 min read

Apple Cuts Over 200 Jobs From Vision Pro and Siri Teams, Pivots to Smart Glasses

Apple eliminated more than 200 positions this week, roughly 100 from the Vision Pro group and 100 from Siri and software teams, according to Bloomberg. The headset's gaming unit is being shut down and immersive video production is shrinking as Apple redirects money toward AI and cheaper smart glasses that can actually compete with Meta's $299 product.
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