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147 stories mentioning Apple since 10 September 2026, newest first, each with its sources and discussion. This page shows the newest 60. Follow to see new ones on your front page.
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AI hyperscalers quintuple flash memory prices, shift power from Apple to Kioxia
AI hyperscalers have driven a surge in demand for flash memory, causing prices to rise fivefold. The shift has altered the bargaining dynamic, moving power from Apple, which historically secured steep discounts, to…
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Chrome’s AI Autofill pulls Gmail data for form filling
Google announced on Wednesday that Chrome’s AI-powered Autofill will now scan users’ Gmail messages to suggest details like flight confirmation numbers, order IDs, or credit card info when filling out online forms. The…
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Anthropic says unreleased model built working exploits for Chrome, Safari, Windows, Linux
Anthropic reported that an unreleased internal AI model identified security flaws in major operating systems and browsers, chaining them into working proof-of-concept exploits. The company stated the model required…
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NVIDIA aims $6T first: Apple's personal AI poses risk
NVIDIA, with its AI factories and growing compute revenue, is seen as the frontrunner to reach a $6 trillion valuation. In contrast, Apple’s focus on in-device AI processing could pose challenges for its growth…
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Apple adds AI assistants and MotionVFX tools to Creator Studio apps
Apple announced updates to Apple Creator Studio on October 27, 2026, introducing AI assistants in Logic Pro, Keynote, Pages, and Numbers, built-in MotionVFX effects in Final Cut Pro, and a Generate Fill tool in…
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Apple launches 14‑inch MacBook Pro with M6 chip
Apple announced a new 14‑inch MacBook Pro powered by its M6 chip. The 12‑core CPU and 12‑core GPU deliver up to 30% faster graphics and 25% faster AI workloads compared with the M5, while upgrades from M1 can see up to…
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Opera adds WebAI standard for local browser AI with Google’s Gemma and Apple’s model
Opera introduced WebAI, a new web standard that lets users run AI models directly in their browser without cloud dependency. The feature supports open-weight models like Google’s Gemma and Apple’s on-device foundation…
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Opinion: AI skills may become quickly obsolete, author argues
The author compares old programming habits—like preferring ++i over i++—to today’s prompt‑engineering tricks for AI models. He argues that techniques that help models behave better are soon incorporated into the…
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Apple expands Siri AI to French, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, and Spanish with iOS 27.2 update
Apple released iOS 27.2 and related software updates on October 26, 2026, expanding Siri AI to support French, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, and Spanish alongside English. The update includes new features such as…
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Judge grants Apple expanded discovery in OpenAI trade secrets suit
Judge Edward Davila has expanded Apple's access to evidence in its ongoing trade secrets lawsuit against OpenAI, io Products, and two former Apple employees, Chang Liu and Tang Tan. The ruling allows Apple to obtain…
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TSMC may raise advanced packaging prices by 10%-20%, report says
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. (TSMC) is reportedly preparing to increase prices for its Chip on Wafer on Substrate (CoWoS) advanced packaging process by 10% to 20%. According to a report by Taiwan's China…
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Apple adds SynthID watermark to iPhone AI images
Images generated with Image Playground and photos edited with Apple Intelligence now carry a SynthID watermark. Apple announced the feature in June and it is live in iOS 27.2. SynthID, a Google‑created tool that tags…
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AI helps uncover P2PShell vulnerability that hit 70% of websites
A new vulnerability called P2PShell was identified, affecting the coding language that powers 70% of the world’s websites. The flaw allows attackers to run code remotely or access server data, and it caused several…
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Anthropic files for IPO, reports AI safety incidents and $16.3 billion first-half revenue
Anthropic filed its S-1 IPO registration statement with the SEC on October 26, 2026, planning to list on Nasdaq under the ticker 'ANT'. The company reported first-half 2026 revenue of $16.3 billion, a 1,304% increase…
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Amazon Bee review: $75 AI wearable summarizes conversations and suggests actions
A Techmeme review describes Amazon's Bee device as a surprisingly capable $75 AI wearable that focuses on passive listening rather than active interaction. Unlike complex predecessors like Humane or Rabbit, Bee…
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Apollo analysis finds AI delivers zero financial payoff outside Magnificent Seven
Apollo Global Management's chief economist Torsten Slok reported that despite massive AI investments, the technology has delivered zero financial payoff to corporate America outside the Magnificent Seven tech stocks.…
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Character.ai files for bankruptcy; Relay shuts down
TechCrunch AI publishes a running list of AI projects that have failed, pivoted, or been abandoned. Recent additions include Character.ai, which filed for bankruptcy five years after launch, and Relay, a workflow…
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Motley Fool analysts debate AI bubble risk and corporate debt levels
Motley Fool contributors Travis Hoium, Lou Whiteman, and Jon Quast debated on a podcast whether the artificial intelligence market is forming a bubble. The discussion highlighted remarks from investor Ray Dalio, who…
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Opinion: Apple and Alphabet offer resilient long-term AI exposure
An opinion piece argues that Berkshire Hathaway holdings Apple and Alphabet represent dependable long-term investments amid questions about whether heavy corporate artificial intelligence spending can sustain its…
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Anthropic CEO says AI partners are a terrible use of AI
Anthropic CEO Daniela Amodei stated in an interview that using AI as a romantic partner is a "terrible use of AI," arguing it distances humans from one another. The remarks, reported by Business Insider on October 15,…
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Scalpers charge $448 extra for Apple iPhone Duo in Beijing
Apple's first foldable phone, the iPhone Duo, launched in China on Friday with strong initial demand, leading to scalpers offering customers an extra 3,000 Chinese yuan ($448) to buy their devices immediately. Alex…
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NVIDIA, AMD, Apple local AI hardware compared for inference speed
A new comparison evaluates local AI hardware from NVIDIA, AMD, and Apple, finding that the best choice depends on workflow compatibility rather than raw speed alone. The NVIDIA DGX Spark offers the safest software bet…
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Apple unveils $299 HomeView smart home display with Siri AI
Apple introduced HomeView, a $299 7‑inch smart‑home hub that combines a display, speaker, FaceTime, Siri AI, and a camera. Preorders began on Oct 13 for the United States, Australia, Canada, India, New Zealand, and the…
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Perplexity releases Decider for Mac to run pplx-decider-flash-v1.2 locally
Perplexity has made its 4 billion‑parameter decision model, pplx‑decider‑flash‑v1.2, runnable on a Mac without sending any data off‑device. The free Decider for Mac app installs a local server that mirrors the hosted…
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ASUS offers ProArt P16 laptop with NVIDIA RTX Spark, starting at $2,800
The reviewer examined ASUS’s new ProArt P16, the first notebook to ship with NVIDIA’s RTX Spark system‑on‑chip. In benchmark testing the laptop lagged behind an earlier ASUS A16 on PCMark 10 Applications by about 3,000…
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The Audacity dramatizes AI tech titans in a Succession‑style series
Showrunner Jonathan Glatzer created The Audacity, a darkly comic drama that aims to do for AI‑focused tech moguls what Succession did for legacy media. The series follows Duncan Park, a data‑analytics founder valued at…
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Apple may add Gemini‑style Intelligent Assistant to iWork, update briefly posted
Apple’s Creator Studio subscription, launched earlier this year, bundles Final Cut Pro, Logic Pro, Photomator and AI‑enhanced iWork apps. The service promises premium templates and AI‑generated images in Pages, Numbers…
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Qualcomm announces global performance-based layoffs as it pivots to AI data centers
Qualcomm told staff it will begin a worldwide performance‑focused reduction after its annual reviews, with notifications expected in November. CEO Cristiano Amon said the move targets employees who have consistently…
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Alphabet loses $860B in value as AI spending outpaces Apple
Alphabet has lost approximately $860 billion in market value since its peak, a sum nearly equal to Walmart's entire valuation of $937.1 billion. In contrast, Apple remains near all-time highs, valued at $4.95 trillion,…
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XHToken releases Spark-X2.6-4B, a 4B on-device language model
XHToken posted Spark-X2.6-4B on Hugging Face, a compact 4B‑parameter model designed for on‑device deployment. It builds on the Spark‑X2.5-4B architecture and gains capability through improved post‑training. The release…
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Qev-0.8b tops decision model benchmarks and runs on a laptop
labqoat released qev-0.8b, a 0.8 B‑parameter local decision model fine‑tuned from Qwen3.5‑0.8B‑Base. The model reads arbitrary states—game boards, tickets, web pages—and returns calibrated probability distributions for…
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Meta's Muse AI agent reaches 10.9 million downloads amid declining ChatGPT usage
Meta's Muse AI agent has achieved 10.9 million downloads since its September 8 launch, with over 10.2 million from the US, according to Sensor Tower data reported by Yahoo Finance. The app reached 2.5 million daily…
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Hugging Face releases AnyLanguageModel 1.0 for Swift apps on Apple platforms
Hugging Face announced AnyLanguageModel 1.0, a Swift library that lets iOS, macOS, visionOS and Linux apps use local or hosted language models through a shared Foundation Models API. The update adds tool calling,…
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PyTorch 2.15 adds FP8 support and speeds up LLM decoding on Mac MPS
The PyTorch team at Hugging Face announced PyTorch 2.15, focusing on the MPS backend for Apple silicon. FP8 tensors (float8e4m3fn) are now supported on MPS, using half the memory of BF16 and enabling scaled matrix…
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Meta plans $130 billion to $145 billion in 2026 capital expenditure, with over $100 billion for AI infrastructure
Meta has set its 2026 capital expenditure guidance between $130 billion and $145 billion, up from $72 billion in 2025, with over $100 billion earmarked for AI infrastructure including data centers, custom silicon…
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Ijah launches Metal‑based inference engine for Qwen 3.8‑Flash‑Next on Apple M5
The open‑source ijah engine runs on Apple M5 GPUs using raw Metal code and serves the Qwen3.8‑Flash‑Next model and its Swift‑1.5 fine‑tune via an OpenAI‑compatible HTTP API. It requires an Apple M5 Mac with Metal 4…
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Report finds US teens can still download nudify apps despite Apple and Google controls
A study by the digital‑rights group Tech Transparency Project (TTP) created four test accounts – two on Apple and two on Google – each registered as 13‑year‑olds. Using search terms like “AI video generator”, the…
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Alibaba launches Qwen Glasses N1 smart eyewear starting at $450
Alibaba has launched the Qwen Glasses N1 series, entering the smart eyewear market currently led by Meta. The standard model starts at $450 before discounts, while a Pro edition priced at approximately $520 adds…
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Meta's Muse shared a seller's home address after user granted always‑allow permission
Matt Robb, a Toronto content creator, listed a keyboard on Facebook Marketplace and let Meta's new AI agent Muse handle the sale. After granting the agent “always allow” permission, Muse accepted an offer, sent a…
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Apple, Amazon and Meta could face privacy challenges from always‑listening AI wearables
Chris Thomas, a Pittsburgh business owner and livestreamer, wears Meta smart glasses, a Fieldy note‑taking pendant and Amazon’s Bee wearable. The latest releases include Amazon’s Bee Frontier wristband and Bee Eclipse…
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Site owner reports Google traffic drop after AI BGM site flagged low value
A site operator running 'Japan's Number One Free BGM', which hosts over 10,000 AI-generated music tracks, reports a significant divergence in search traffic between Google and Bing. Despite expanding page descriptions…
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Meta to report Q3 earnings amid AI spending scrutiny
Meta Platforms is scheduled to report its third-quarter earnings on October 21 after the market close, with investors focused on whether its AI spending can be justified by future revenue growth. The company expects…
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The Truth Behind 'Apple and Meta Team Up on AI': It's Not Siri, It's Mac Studio | A Manager's Breakdown of Confirmed Facts, Reports, Unannounced Details, and Im
The collaboration does not include integration with Siri or Apple Intelligence, and no formal partnership press release was issued. Meta’s own benchmark table places Muse Spark Open behind some Chinese models on…
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Apple CEO John Ternus calls memory chip shortage a crisis
Apple’s new chief executive John Ternus told TIME that the shortage of memory chips is an "absolute crisis," warning that the constraint could push back shipments of the foldable iPhone Duo, priced from $1,999, to…
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Apple updates App Review Guidelines to crack down on AI nudify apps and apps that reveal undocumented capabilities
Apple updated its App Review Guidelines today to strengthen protections against harmful content and deceptive app review practices. The changes target apps that enable users to create or share nonconsensual intimate…
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Google opens SynthID Detector to public ahead of Nigeria’s 2027 elections
Google announced that its SynthID Detector, an AI watermark detection platform, is now available worldwide in English. The service lets anyone with a Google, Apple, or OpenAI account upload images, video or audio to…
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Meta releases Muse Spark Open, an 816B-parameter open-weight multimodal model
Meta released Muse Spark Open, an 816B-parameter multimodal model that can run locally on Apple Mac Studios. Two M5 Ultra Mac Studios with 1TB combined memory run the model via Apple’s updated MLX toolkit, and Meta…
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Meta launches Meta Spark Open, optimized for Apple Mac Studio
Meta has released Meta Spark Open, an open-weight model it claims is the most powerful of its kind from a US company. Unlike closed systems, this model allows users to download and adjust the weights on their own…
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PrismML releases Ternary Bonsai 2 models for local AI on phones and wearables
They join the existing Bonsai 2 27B model, expanding options for developers targeting limited-resource devices like smartphones and wearables. The new models prioritize practical tasks such as instruction following,…
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Meta releases Muse Spark Open with 816B parameters and Apple collaboration
Meta released a new open-weight AI model called Muse Spark Open with 816 billion parameters, according to the article. The model uses a Mixture of Experts architecture and has approximately 42 billion parameters used…
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Apple tests Chinese chips amid memory shortages, Ternus says
Apple’s new CEO, John Ternus, discussed the company’s foldable iPhone Duo launch and broader challenges, including a global memory chip shortage. Reports from July indicated Apple tested Chinese-made memory chips to…
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Microsoft to shift Azure data centers to custom Maia chips, boosting Marvell, hurting Nvidia
Microsoft announced it will rely more on its custom Maia silicon for Azure data centers starting next year, scaling the Maia family to multi‑gigawatt deployments. The move is aimed at powering Microsoft’s own products…
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MacPaw launches Eney: an on-device assistant that asks before acting
MacPaw introduced Eney, an AI assistant for Mac and iPhone designed to act proactively but only with user approval. Unlike browser-based agents, Eney integrates with the device’s native apps—Mail, Calendar,…
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Apple delays Apple Intelligence launch in China to December 2026
The rollout follows a regulatory delay and will exclude Siri AI features. Sources say key capabilities were first introduced in 2024, but the full platform launch was postponed. The announcement comes after years of…
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Twin Health’s digital twin app improves user’s liver metrics by 9 points in 100 days
Twin Health, a digital twin service for metabolic health, claims its app helped a test user improve their metabolic health score by nine points in 100 days. The user, a Verge staff member, logged data from a Dexcom G7…
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OpenAI alleges former employee took product plans and presented them to Apple
OpenAI claims a former employee who worked at Apple, then joined OpenAI for six months before returning to Apple, took more than 100 confidential files related to unreleased product plans and presented them to Apple…
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Apple uses idle Macs as GPU cloud for AI inference with ‘Minions’
Apple researchers detailed a system called Minions, which turns idle Macs into a virtual GPU cloud for AI inference tasks. The system splits jobs into subtasks, distributing them across Apple Silicon Macs connected to…
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Apple, Amazon, Microsoft launch AI-powered devices ahead of holiday season
Apple, Amazon, and Microsoft have introduced AI-focused hardware in the past week, aiming to bring generative AI into consumer homes before the holiday rush. Apple unveiled the HomeView smart home hub ($299) with Siri…
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Apple introduces HomeView smart display with Siri AI, excludes EU due to regulations
Apple launched HomeView, a $299 smart display with a 7-inch Liquid Retina screen, powered by Siri AI and Apple Intelligence, on October 13, 2026. Pre-orders opened immediately in six countries (Australia, Canada,…
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Apple unveils HomeView demo with Siri and facial recognition for up to six users
Apple previewed HomeView, a square smart display designed for home control, hands-free FaceTime calls, and Siri AI integration. The device supports up to six users with personalized interfaces based on facial…
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As of 29 October 2026: AI hyperscalers quintuple flash memory prices, shift power from Apple to Kioxia. AI hyperscalers have driven a surge in demand for flash memory, causing prices to rise fivefold.