More than 100,000 apps now support iPhone Duo
Foldable software earns its value through useful combinations of content and controls, making interface design decisive as app coverage expands.
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Updated with each publicationGitHub Copilot enters Xcode’s built-in coding assistant in public preview
GitHub said on the GitHub Blog that GitHub Copilot is now available directly inside Xcode’s built-in coding assistant, starting as a public preview in Xcode 27.3 beta. The integration gives developers another way to use Copilot in a native Xcode workflow, while the existing GitHub Copilot for Xcode extension remains available as a separate option. GitHub says it supports all Copilot plans, and setup requires Xcode 27.3 beta on a Mac running macOS Tahoe 26.6 or later.
Apple opens iOS 27.3 testing with conversation recaps and rewind on Apple Watch
Wearable AI is extending from notifications into organizing real-world conversations, placing an interface closer to where information is created.
Apple Intelligence reaches China’s iOS 27.3 developer beta with Qwen integration
Qwen gains an operating-system entry point as Apple connects local model services to frequent writing, image-understanding and translation tasks.
Apple’s home robot has largely finished hardware, but software challenges threaten its 2027 target
Home robots bind interaction software to physical action, leaving environmental understanding and behavior control to shape release timing even after hardware is finalized.
Apple opens Siri AI developer preview to all app makers
Apple said a new Developer Preview is now available in the iOS 27.3, iPadOS 27.3, macOS 27.3 and visionOS 27.3 betas, letting any developer integrate an app with Siri AI. The preview uses App Intents so apps can expose content and custom actions to Siri AI, including more complex multi-step skills. Apple said this is early access before the feature ships to customers in a few months, and App Store submissions will open in the spring.
Apple revenue rises 12% as holiday-quarter gross margin is expected to fall to 45%–46%
Ongoing AI costs are shaping subscription prices and usage limits while memory demand also affects hardware margins.
Apple's tabletop robot faces software disagreements that could delay launch until 2028
Home-robot schedules depend on dependable perception and movement, and on settling a realistic first-generation feature set.
Apple CEO John Ternus puts product experience ahead of adding AI for its own sake
As AI becomes part of devices, users pay for the overall experience, keeping chip, software and interaction design central to product value.
Apple sets November 4 beta testing for Apple Intelligence in China ahead of a December release
AI distribution now extends into operating-system workflows, where the everyday actions covered can matter more than the number of models offered.
Apple brings touch to MacBook Pro alongside OLED and on-device AI upgrades
Apple is changing professional computing's input and local processing together, giving AI tools a more direct place in the interfaces where creative work happens.
Apple adds AI assistants to productivity and music apps and opens agent connections
Embedded assistants and open tool interfaces are making professional files and projects direct entry points for agent execution.
CXMT reportedly prioritizes domestic orders and declines to quote Apple
Memory competition is shaped by product specifications and by how suppliers allocate scarce capacity among long-term customers.
Apple unveils iPad mini with OLED display and A20 Pro chip
Apple is bringing local AI processing, a better display and greater durability together in a portable device designed for more tasks.
Apple plans an OLED touchscreen MacBook Pro with adaptive macOS controls
Touchscreen hardware requires desktop controls that work across several input methods.
Apple briefly passes NVIDIA with an intraday market value of $5.12 trillion
When market values are close, rankings change easily; product sales and capital-spending expectations provide more useful business context.
Apple introduces an iPhone Duo app badge for foldable-specific layouts
Foldable hardware gains utility when developers turn extra display space into usable layouts, and app stores make those adaptations discoverable.
Apple CEO John Ternus puts design first and says AI should deliver benefits users can feel
Consumer AI earns its value through useful interaction, requiring hardware, software design and models to work together around specific user needs.
Apple confirms an October 28 event, with touchscreen Macs and M6 products still expected
An event announcement creates a viewing point; purchase decisions still require official specifications, pricing and delivery dates.
Mistlabs raises $26 million to move from an AI assistant on Apple devices to its own wearable
The challenge for AI wearables was never whether they can be built, but whether they give people a reason to wear one more device.
Apple revises App Review Guidelines to target AI nudify apps and features revealed only after approval
Generative AI lets violating features hide behind a model, so app review is shifting from checking the interface to checking whether features are honestly disclosed.
Apple calls iPhone Duo demand "extraordinary" as preorder deliveries slip to January
Foldables waited years for Apple, and the shortage shows the category never lacked demand, only a brand people trusted enough to buy.
Meta releases Muse Spark Open weights and works with Apple to run the 816-billion-parameter model locally on two Mac Studios
As open models grow, data centers are no longer the only place that can hold them, and personal computers' memory capacity has become a reason for model companies to pick partners.
Tim Cook says Apple Intelligence is approved for the Chinese market, with a test version due later this month
For a foreign phone maker bringing AI to China, the path runs through model filing first and phased rollout second, making local compliance part of the product launch timetable.
TIME names its 300 Best Inventions of 2026, with new Apple CEO John Ternus on the cover
On the year's inventions list, tools for identifying and constraining AI sit alongside AI itself, and keeping AI in check has become an innovation category of its own.
Apple plans to launch its first Apple Intelligence features in mainland China with iOS 27.3 in December
In China, the AI phone race is not about who releases a model first but who can safely build a local partner's model into the system first.
Apple closes above a $5 trillion market value for the first time, the second company after Nvidia
On a day when companies borrowing to build compute were sold off and Apple, which sells the hardware, hit a record, the market was sorting out who carries AI's costs and who collects its demand.
OpenAI accuses an ex-employee of taking unreleased device files to Apple, escalating their trade secrets fight
The first front in the AI hardware race is not products but people: when the same engineers shuttle between rivals, every hire can become evidence.
Apple introduces the $299 HomeView, connecting home AI through screens, speakers and accessories
Home AI must identify the right person, understand their context and control real devices; Apple is assembling an entire product system around that chain.
Global smartphone shipments fell 20% in the third quarter as memory costs pushed prices up, while Apple's share rose to 22%
Consumer electronics such as phones are paying for the memory chip shortage, and the hardest hit are models that depend on low prices and high volume.
Tim Cook visits Guangzhou, meets Guangdong's governor and says Apple is willing to expand its business in the province
After leaving the CEO role, Cook is still handling communication with the China market, a part of Apple's division of work that did not stop with the change of title.
Tech blogger John Gruber says X is once again the liveliest social platform for tech and AI discussion
AI launches, leaks and arguments still happen mostly on X, and for anyone trying to keep up with the industry, the cost of switching platforms is higher than it looked a few years ago.
Apple to unveil smart home hub HomeView on Tuesday, with accessories made by LG, betting on a voice-controlled home
Apple is moving the entry point to the smart home from a phone app to an always-on screen and a voice assistant; for the first time, how smart the assistant is directly decides a hardware product's fate.
Tim Cook meets Guangdong Governor Meng Fanli in Guangzhou, says Apple is willing to expand its business in the province
When Apple talks cooperation with Guangdong, supply chain and manufacturing come first; for Apple this is above all the place where its products get made.
OpenAI turns ChatGPT into a place to discover and use software, but has no revenue-sharing plan for developers yet
OpenAI has taken the app store's discovery function first and left payment for later, and the commission rate will only come up once developers cannot do without the entry point.
Apple's new CEO Ternus takes charge of design himself, and the touch-screen OLED MacBook Pro will be noticeably lighter
With a hardware person as CEO, the first thing to change at Apple is how it makes things: products come to resemble whoever shows up in the design studio every day.
Apple will tighten macOS Full Disk Access, saying AI agents make the permission riskier
AI agents want to see everything, while operating-system security is built on granting only what is necessary, and one of the two will eventually have to give.
Nvidia hits its first record high in more than four months as its market value reaches about $5.7 trillion
Nvidia's record high and costlier data center financing arrived in the same week, meaning the stock market and the bond market are pricing the same AI buildout in two different ways.
Apple will unveil a smart home hub with a display on October 13, alongside a new HomePod mini
Apple is years late to home screens, betting that AI makes the category genuinely useful for the first time rather than just a tablet in the kitchen.
Oura postpones its IPO at the last minute as some investors balk at a ~$15 billion valuation
Markets will pay up for an AI story, but for a ring that must win back its users' subscriptions every year, they do the hardware math first.
Apple's new CEO John Ternus begins a shake-up, cutting management layers and speeding up launches
Apple's problem has never been a lack of money or talent but slowness; by cutting layers rather than products first, the new CEO signals he thinks the drag lies in the organization itself.
Meta launches Meta Enterprise Platform under MongoDB's CEO, and MongoDB shares plunge
Meta has consumer traffic, but enterprise software is sold on trust and long-term service, which a strategy announcement cannot supply.
Nvidia adds $150 billion to its buyback authorization, taking it to $235 billion in the largest single increase ever
The shovel seller has so much cash it needs a buyback order of over $200 billion, while the shovel buyers are still writing prospectuses for their next round.
Tencent launches TenPayGo so visitors to China can pay WeChat merchants with international cards
Visitor payments succeed when the first purchase goes through smoothly; a large merchant network still needs a simple, reliable path for the customer.
Zuckerberg unveils 100-gram VR glasses at Meta Connect for $1,299, less than half the price of Apple's Vision Pro
Meta launched glasses, a headset and a handheld on the same day, which shows it has not yet decided what hardware Muse should ultimately live on.
OpenAI says in Musk's antitrust suit that ChatGPT in Apple's Siri "dramatically underperformed" and brought few new users
To win an antitrust case, OpenAI has publicly admitted its biggest distribution deal failed, which weakens its hand in future talks with other phone makers.
Apple is prototyping a screenless health band to rival Whoop, with no decision to ship
Apple building devices without screens says it believes the value in health data has moved from display to analysis.
Kimi Code Desktop brings a visual coding-agent workspace to macOS and Windows
As coding agents move onto the desktop, task visibility, approvals and change review become product differentiators alongside model speed.
Apple's Siri home hub could ship next month as the company starts cutting Fitness+ staff
One more device in the home, one fewer subscription entrance — Apple is pulling scattered services back through Siri.
Altman and Huang reportedly join the White House state-dinner guest list, putting AI leaders in a high-level U.S.-China setting
The presence of AI executives at the dinner places chips, models and supply chains near the center of high-level economic dialogue.
Apple reportedly develops M8 Ultra AI servers, weighing Nvidia’s NVLink Fusion for an enterprise-market return
If Apple returns to servers, local AI and integrated hardware-software design will be the pitch; cluster software will determine whether the chips matter.
DeepSeek's official desktop code is public, with Mac and Windows build targets
The confirmed desktop progress concerns build and update infrastructure; general installer availability and comparable task performance require separate verification.
iPhone Duo reportedly leaves six weeks for adaptation, Chinese developers work at Apple headquarters
Six weeks is the reported launch-to-sales interval; early adaptation supports evidence of software preparation, rather than proving sales volumes or traffic gains.
Apple ships iOS 27 and five more OS releases with Siri AI, English beta first, five more languages next month
Siri's capability boundary is now tied to an OS release, moving adaptation cost to the system entrance.
OpenAI buys phone-camera company Glass Imaging for more than $300M, founders came from Apple's Portrait Mode team
As camera quality migrates from hardware specs to software, module suppliers get repriced first.
Gurman lists Apple's first-half 2027 pipeline, including iPhone 18e and an OLED iPad Air
Splitting one autumn launch into two waves also splits the channel's inventory bet.
Apple expands Apple Upgrade across four device categories, turning replacement cycles into Klarna-backed leases
Apple Upgrade is more than installment financing: it puts four hardware lines into one recurring replacement system.
iPhone 18 Pro first-hour presale value doubles as Taobao Flash Apple hardware sales jump more than 25-fold
A doubled first hour shows that premium launches can still concentrate demand; performance after the opening week will determine the generation's staying power.
Apple bets iPhone Duo can mainstream foldables while Beats reportedly prepares a game controller
iPhone Duo expands the screen format and a Beats controller would deepen gaming use, but both products must earn adoption through experience rather than brand alone.
Apple unveils its first foldable iPhone Duo, joining A20 Pro, a new Siri and Watch audio intelligence in its fall lineup
Apple is adding large-screen collaboration, personal assistance and ambient audio processing to established devices. Upgrade demand will depend on which features work locally and whether people use them every day.
Gurman sees Cook remaining active as Apple chairman; App Store profit demands reportedly prompted Schiller to relinquish oversight
Beyond the leadership handover, App Store profit demands have a more direct bearing on how much developers keep from each subscription.
Lyte Raises $165 Million to Scale Robotic Perception Production
Perception could become a business spanning multiple robot platforms. The move from prototype to production supplier must be validated through costs and repeat orders.
Apple enters its biggest-ever product cycle as foldable iPhone output runs at a few hundred units a day
The biggest product cycle ever and a few hundred units a day in the same week — Apple's question is no longer whether it has new things, but whether it can build them.
Nvidia's RTX Spark N1X ships in October in 20-core and 18-core configurations
Putting unified memory into Windows laptops targets not gamers but the local-inference users Apple took over the past year.
Apple filing puts Ternus's fiscal 2027 compensation at about $58 million
Three-quarters of the equity riding on beating the S&P — Apple's board wrote its demand of the new CEO into the vesting terms.
Tim Cook writes a final memo on his last day as Apple CEO, "enormous comfort" in handing over to Ternus
Apple has installed a hardware product executive to make up a software deficit — the first year's launch cadence will answer it immediately.
Apple hands over on September 1, and new CEO Ternus puts AI at the top of the list
Cook is not leaving behind a company to be maintained but a debt in AI; Ternus's clock is tighter than his title suggests.
OpenAI bought tens of thousands of Macs for RL, and Nvidia sees Apple as its local-AI rival
Apple did nothing for AI training and still got turned into training infrastructure by two frontier labs first.
Robot foundation model company Generalist adds $200 million at a $3 billion valuation
Up 50% in two months with no customer revenue, this money buys one assumption about industry structure: the robot brain lives apart from the body.
Apple Sets September 9 Event, New CEO Ternus's First Keynote
Ternus's first event is betting on both the foldable and the new Siri — neither can afford to go wrong.
Cook Steps Down as Apple CEO on September 1, Ternus Takes Over and Joins the Board
A hardware engineer takes the CEO seat at a company trailing in the software narrative — Apple is betting its in-house silicon can close the AI gap.
Apple Debuts First 2nm Chip M6, AI Performance Up to 4x M4
Apple didn't pitch an AI story — it just stuffed the Neural Accelerator into the cheapest machine it sells.
AI chip IP company Velaura closes $110M Series A, valuation tops $1B
The ceiling on compute expansion is shifting from chip supply to power supply. Energy efficiency has already gone from an engineering metric to a price line on the procurement list.
Voice-Input Company Wispr Closes $280M Series B at $2B Valuation
This round isn't betting on transcription accuracy — it's betting on the position at the input box. Whoever catches the spoken word sees the user's intent first.
Apple Cuts 200+ Roles, Vision Pro and Siri Teams Each Lose About 100
With immersive video shut down and the Siri architecture intact, Apple is betting its last chips on the 2027 glasses.
Apple macOS Tahoe 26.7 Release Candidate Leaks Clues to Over a Dozen Unreleased Products
Apple chose earbuds, not glasses, as the carrier for Visual Intelligence — a bet on what users are willing to wear, not the ideal form factor.
Duan Yongping's Q2 Holdings Reach $19.101 Billion: New Alibaba Position, Nvidia Cut by More Than Half
In the same filing, he sold the shovel-sellers of compute and bought China's e-commerce — that combination is itself a judgment.
Apple teams with Alibaba on China-specific LLM, could be first foreign firm to win China approval
The compliance pathway for foreign companies offering generative AI in China now has its first concrete precedent—and its template value outweighs Apple's own sales.
Apple Proposes Up to 15% Commission on External Link Purchases; Epic Says It Should Be Zero
The dispute has narrowed from "whether external links are allowed" to "how many percentage points the cost evidence can justify," and Apple's services business profit margin rides on this evidentiary question.
Google Packs Insulin Resistance Trends Into Pixel Watch 5 and Fitbit
Google didn't solve non-invasive glucose monitoring — it just reframed the question so it didn't need solving.
TrendForce: iPhone 18 Pro BOM Cost Expected to Rise Nearly 38% on Memory Price Hikes
This memory cycle has hit final pricing directly, and Apple's gross margin is the first place to feel the pressure.
Apple Reportedly Testing CXMT Memory Chips, Constrained by U.S. Technology Transfer Rules
Supply-chain shortages and congressional pressure have collided; Apple must deliver its answer by August 21.
Report: Apple Tests CXMT Chips, Plans Use in China-Market iPhones and MacBooks
Memory shortages are cyclical; supplier qualification is permanent — CXMT is trading one cycle for a long-term ticket.
Nvidia Reportedly Evaluating Lower VRAM Configurations for Rubin Ultra to Address High-End HBM Shortage
Even Nvidia has to make concessions on its own flagship; memory is the true limiting factor in this round of compute expansion.
CXMT Refuses Apple's Price Cut, Demands Memory Quotes No Lower Than Samsung and SK Hynix
The coming of age for domestic substitution: daring to say no to a big customer for the first time.
OpenAI Publishes Chat Logs to Rebut Apple's Trade-Secret Charges, Says Apple Employees Asked Ex-Colleague for Files After His Departure
The most damaging evidence in a defendant's presentation is often the plaintiff's own messages.
Bloomberg's Gurman: MacBook Air Supply Tight; Apple Looks to Make Glasses and Headsets Health Devices
AI's compute bill is reaching consumers by a different route: not a price increase, but a wait.
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