Apple news
Stories 61 to 120 of 147, from 19 September 2026 to 13 October 2026, newest first. The latest are on the first page →
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Apple adds Siri AI and Wi-Fi 7 to fourth-gen Apple TV 4K for $299
Apple unveiled the fourth-generation Apple TV 4K at its Welcome Home event, featuring Siri AI integration, far-field microphones, and an A19 chip. The device supports Wi-Fi 7, Bluetooth 6, and up to 128GB of storage,…
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IMF warns AI market correction could trigger global financial turmoil
The International Monetary Fund's October 2026 Global Financial Stability Report identifies an AI-driven market correction as one of three salient risks to global financial stability, alongside rising sovereign bond…
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Apple launches homeview hub, Anthropic warns of AI risk
Apple announced the HomeView hub, a 7‑inch countertop or wall‑mounted display that recognizes family members by face and controls locks, cameras and thermostats. Pre‑orders opened in Canada the same day and units ship…
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NVIDIA’s 9-year-old Tesla V100 outperforms M5 Ultra in AI benchmarks with four GPUs
A YouTuber named Jun Yamog tested four NVIDIA Tesla V100 GPUs—each with 32GB of HBM2 memory—mounted on an NVLink carrier board to compare their AI inference performance against modern hardware. The setup delivered up…
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Reddit user releases free Adobe and Microsoft app alternatives via vibe coding
A Reddit user named Brandon Thomas, who goes by u/ai\[art\]is\[art\], released 13 open-source apps this month on his website ArtCraft. These tools mimic core features of Adobe and Microsoft programs—including…
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Mistlabs raises $26M to launch Ambi ambient AI on Apple devices
Mistlabs has exited beta for its ambient AI system, Ambi, on Apple devices, backed by a $26 million Pre-A funding round. The San Francisco-based company, led by CEO Peter Mo, positions Ambi as a proactive assistant…
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Former Plaud exec Peter Mo raises $26M for Ambi AI app that listens continuously
Former Plaud executive Peter Mo has raised $26 million across multiple funding rounds for his new startup Ambi, the company announced Monday. Luminous Ventures and original design manufacturer Huaqin led the…
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Matthew Botvinick argues democracy is essential for AI safety
The article argues that AI safety cannot be achieved without constitutional democracy. The author, Matthew Botvinick, a Yale Law School fellow, explains that a safe AI system would be beneficial in a democratic context…
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Google's Gemini Live Translate provides real‑time speech translation in 70+ languages
AI live‑translation tools now cover consumer apps, meeting add‑ons, event platforms and developer APIs. The roundup checks twelve products, noting how each listens, transcribes, translates and outputs captions or…
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User tests local AI on Apple Mac Studio and RTX Spark
The author, not an AI expert, explores running powerful models locally on Apple M5 Ultra Mac Studio and upcoming RTX Spark Windows machines. He installs Hermes Agent, a free self‑hosted AI agent that works on macOS,…
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Google upgrades SynthID to detect media from OpenAI and NVIDIA
Google has updated its SynthID tool to include a new detector that identifies AI-generated media from multiple providers. While SynthID originally focused on watermarking content from Google's own models, the new…
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Apple licenses Huxe’s tech and hires its team in reverse acqui-hire deal
Apple disclosed in a European Commission filing that it has struck a reverse acqui-hire deal with Huxe, a personalized audio startup that shut down in May. The agreement includes non-exclusive licensing of Huxe’s…
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Google expands SynthID detector to check all partner AI content globally
Previously, users had to rely on Gemini for detection, which was cumbersome and limited to Google’s own watermarks. The new tool at [SynthID.com](https://synthid.com) supports watermarks from partners like OpenAI,…
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Ghost launches $3,499 AI agent computer with $11M seed
Ghost, a startup founded by 19-year-old Zain Javaid, has emerged from stealth to announce its first product, Core, a dedicated personal computer for running AI agents. The company simultaneously revealed an $11 million…
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Open-source tool RemoveMacAI removes Apple Intelligence models to free up storage on macOS 27
A new open-source command-line tool called RemoveMacAI allows macOS 27 users to disable Apple Intelligence and remove its downloaded AI models, freeing up storage space. The tool works by using a configuration profile…
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Alibaba's Qwen reaches 2.4T parameters, Qwen 4 in training
Alibaba’s Qwen model family has evolved from a 7-billion-parameter open-source release in 2023 to a 2.4-trillion-parameter flagship by August 2026. The latest open-weight model, Qwen3.8-2.4T-A95B, features 95 billion…
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AWS, Google Cloud launch AI agent tools; FTC investigates OpenAI, Anthropic
AWS released "Strands Harness," an open-source tool for building AI agents that works with models like GPT, Claude, and Gemini. It allows developers to create agent infrastructure independent of specific LLMs by…
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Oura delays IPO as AI wearables face privacy backlash and design failures
Smart ring maker Oura pulled its planned initial public offering on Tuesday, citing uncertainty in the IPO market, though analysts called the last-minute move unusual. The delay comes as the broader AI wearables…
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Meta launches Muse agent; Microsoft adds Autopilot to Copilot
Meta Platforms introduced Muse, a personal AI agent that can book travel, send email and shop for users, on Sept. 8. Within ten days it hit No. 1 on Apple’s U.S. App Store and, according to Sensor Tower, surpassed 3.4…
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Apple to tighten macOS Full Disk Access citing AI agent risks
Apple announced on October 2, 2026, that it will introduce additional controls around Full Disk Access in macOS to address risks posed by AI agents, stating that some developers are using the permission in ways that…
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McDonald’s uses AI to set prices across its 14,000 restaurants
McDonald’s has relied on AI-driven dynamic pricing since 2019, analyzing millions of transactions and competitor data to suggest prices for its nearly 14,000 locations. The system, seen in screenshots from August,…
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Nvidia authorizes $150B buyback increase, total $235B through fiscal 2028
Nvidia's board authorized a $150 billion increase to its share repurchase program on September 28, bringing total buyback authorization to $235 billion through fiscal 2028. The company also pushed back against investor…
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Apple absent from Trump AI lunch, report says
Apple was the only major tech company not represented at a White House lunch hosted by President Donald Trump to discuss artificial intelligence. While leaders from OpenAI, Anthropic, Meta, Google, and Nvidia attended…
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Factory CEO accuses Cognition’s new CRO of sharing confidential info with rival
Factory AI’s CEO, Matan Grinberg, accused Cognition’s newly hired chief revenue officer, Chris Degnan, of disclosing confidential Factory details to Cognition executives while advising Factory as a board observer.…
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Microsoft may drop Surface Laptop Ultra at Oct. 7 event
Microsoft is hosting its first dedicated laptop event in two years on Oct. 7 in San Francisco, where it will showcase Windows and Surface devices but not Windows 12. The focus is on local AI shaping the PC, with CEO…
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DoorDash opens US waitlists for Apple Messages AI ordering agent and B2B bulk‑order API
DoorDash Inc. announced that it is accepting U.S. users for a waitlist to try an artificial‑intelligence ordering agent built into Apple’s Messages app. The agent lets customers place food orders directly from a chat…
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OpenAI and Meta launch cute AI agents with potential risks
OpenAI and Meta have introduced new AI agents—Dots and Muse—designed with endearing, cartoonish mascots to make them more relatable and appealing. These agents aim to automate tasks like scheduling and emailing, but…
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TSMC manufactures NVIDIA and Apple’s AI chips via foundry model
TSMC, a Taiwanese semiconductor manufacturer, specializes in producing chips designed by other companies like NVIDIA and Apple under a pure-play foundry model. Unlike chipmakers that design and sell their own products,…
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Apple pauses plans to replace 5,000 AppleCare workers with AI agents
Apple reportedly considered replacing around 5,000 AppleCare customer service employees with AI-powered agents, according to Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman. The company had explored automating roles to cut costs but has…
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Swift-1.5-Qwen3.8-27b-oQ8e-mtp achieves 34.8 tokens per second on Apple M5 Max
A Reddit user shared benchmark results for the Swift-1.5-Qwen3.8-27b-oQ8e-mtp model on an Apple M5 Max device on September 29, 2026. The model reached 34.8 tokens per second in a coding scenario, generating a playable…
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Timnit Gebru says AI existential risk narrative distracts from real harms
Timnit Gebru, a prominent AI researcher and coauthor of the 2021 Stochastic Parrots paper, argues that framing AI as an existential threat is a harmful distraction from immediate risks like data exploitation,…
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RemoveMacAI tool disables Apple Intelligence and removes models on macOS 27
An open-source utility named RemoveMacAI turns off Apple Intelligence features and deletes downloaded models on macOS 27. According to project documentation, macOS 27 lacks a single switch to disable Apple…
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AI-powered hacking strains small hospitals and banks
Small organizations like Vivian’s Door face growing cyber threats as AI tools lower the bar for hackers. In March, the nonprofit’s systems were offline for three days after suspicious activity, costing about $3,000 in…
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OpenAI expands Codex Remote to all ChatGPT plans for mobile-to-PC tasks
OpenAI made its AI agent platform Codex Remote generally available on September 27, 2026, for all ChatGPT plans—Free through Enterprise. Users can now start, manage, and approve AI tasks on their office PCs (Mac or…
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Llama.cpp achieves up to 42x faster prompt lookup drafting
Benchmarks were run on an Apple M4 Pro (14 cores, 48 GB RAM) using the WikiText‑103 corpus (541 MB) and smaller subsets (25 MB‑200 MB). Median latency per drafted token and memory figures were measured over three runs.…
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Supersonic Labs releases Julia 1, a 144.3M-parameter open decision model
Supersonic Labs, a Brazilian AI lab, has released Julia 1, a compact decision model with 144.3M parameters. Unlike standard chatbots, Julia 1 does not generate text; instead, it accepts context, a question, and 2 to 20…
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Apple Intelligence for Home costs up to three times more than Ring and Nest in tests
Apple introduced AI‑powered text descriptions for its HomeKit Secure Video service with iOS 27, calling the feature Apple Intelligence for Home. The service is bundled into iCloud Plus, costing $9.99 per month for one…
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Trump and Xi discuss AI cooperation with tech leaders at state dinner
U.S. Attendees included Nvidia’s Jensen Huang, SpaceX’s Elon Musk, AMD’s Lisa Su, Apple’s Tim Cook, OpenAI’s Sam Altman and Greg Brockman, Google’s Sergey Brin, and Microsoft’s Satya Nadella. Xi’s readout stated China…
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Trump and Xi extend trade pause; AI talks yield no new rules
US President Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping held a summit in Washington, extending a trade war pause until 10 January. While the meeting included ceremonial elements like a red-carpet airport greeting…
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Meta announced the AI device Charm featuring its Muse agent at Connect 2026
Meta announced at its Connect 2026 event that it has integrated its viral AI agent Muse into a small hardware device called Charm, which CEO Mark Zuckerberg said should ship in time for the holiday shopping season. The…
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OpenAI says Apple's ChatGPT integration underperformed after 2024 launch
OpenAI disclosed in court filings that the integration of ChatGPT into Apple Intelligence on iPhones delivered far less user engagement than expected after its 2024 launch, with weekly active user forecasts cut within…
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Opiversal CEO says AI search reshapes ecommerce
In a MarTech interview, Lucas Tieleman, CEO and co‑founder of Opiversal, explains how AI‑driven search is altering online shopping. He notes that traditional six‑word queries on standard engines have been replaced by…
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Apple pitches Macs as local AI alternative to Nvidia and Microsoft
Apple is aggressively targeting the enterprise AI market by positioning its high-end Macs as a cost-effective alternative to cloud infrastructure dominated by Nvidia and Microsoft. The company argues that businesses…
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Qualcomm launches two Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 6 chips built for on-device agentic AI
Qualcomm announced two flagship smartphone processors, the Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 6 and the Snapdragon 8 Elite Extreme Gen 6, both built on a 2-nanometer process. The chips feature custom Oryon CPUs, rearchitected…
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Hugging Face adds GGUF support to Transformers for local inference
Hugging Face announced that the Transformers library can now load GGUF‑format checkpoints directly, letting users run quantized models on a laptop with the familiar frompretrained API. The feature reuses llama.cpp’s…
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Jun Kim joins Hugging Face to lead oMLX for the MLX community
Hugging Face announced that Jun Kim, the creator and maintainer of oMLX, has joined the company. oMLX is an open‑source library that enables running Apple’s MLX framework—optimized for Apple Silicon—on local devices.…
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Ron Johnson says AI agents won’t replace physical retail
Ron Johnson, the former Apple executive who built the company’s retail empire, says AI agents will not take over how people shop. The 66‑year‑old, who joined Apple in 2000 and later ran J.C. Penney, told TechCrunch…
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Opinion: M5 Ultra Mac Studio enables fast local AI agents, reviewer says
The reviewer tested Apple’s M5 Ultra Mac Studio with 256 GB of unified RAM, comparing it to the previous M3 Ultra (512 GB) and a desktop PC built around an RTX 5090 GPU. Using local models such as Qwen3.8‑Flash‑Next,…
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Security researcher discloses zero-day in Meta's Muse AI agent; Meta hot-fixes flaw
Security researcher Patrick Wardle publicly disclosed a zero-day vulnerability in Meta's Muse AI agent on September 21, 2026, demonstrating that an unprivileged local process on macOS could redirect the app's dictation…
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Apple and Tesla were better insulated from Hugging Face breach, analysts say
Apple reported fiscal Q3 2026 revenue of $109.42B, up 16.4% year‑over‑year, with earnings per share of $2.02 beating the $1.89 consensus. iPhone sales contributed $54.25B and Services $30.74B. Tim Cook introduced a new…
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How to use Image 2.5 and Computer Use to create LINE stickers
The author describes using the newly released Image 2.5 model to generate a 40‑sticker set featuring the character Rokesta‑kun. Image 2.5 produced consistent two‑headed characters, something earlier models could not…
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Apple opens claims process for $250 million Siri AI settlement
Apple has opened the claims process for a $250 million settlement related to a class action lawsuit alleging delayed launch of upgraded Siri AI features. Eligible iPhone owners in the United States who purchased…
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Apple is reportedly developing enterprise AI servers powered by M8 Ultra chips
Apple is developing an enterprise AI server utilizing its own M8 Ultra chips, according to a report from The Information. The hardware would target businesses, governments, and developers seeking to run AI inference…
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Analysts say global stocks could crash amid AI bubble and Middle East conflict
Investors are uneasy as the US Treasury 10‑year yield rose above 5%, a level some view as a possible market‑meltdown trigger. The S&P 500 sits about 3% below its all‑time high and the CAPE ratio for the index has…
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Opinion: Stock compensation keeps Big‑Tech staff despite Layoffs and AI boom
Big‑tech firms have relied on stock compensation to retain talent, but recent layoffs and the AI boom are reshaping that incentive. Since the end of 2022, shares of Meta, Alphabet, Amazon, Apple and Microsoft have at…
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Opinion: big tech AI spending concentrates growth‑ETF holdings
The piece argues that a growth ETF’s headline number of holdings can mask heavy concentration in a handful of AI‑focused tech giants. It points out that the Schwab U.S. Large‑Cap Growth ETF (SCHG) holds 197 stocks, yet…
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Apple's A20 Pro enables iPhone 18 Pro to run 27B model twice as fast as iPhone 17 Pro
Apple introduced the A20 Pro chip, featuring a dual‑16‑core Neural Engine designed for on‑device AI. In a recent demo, an iPhone 18 Pro executed a 27B‑parameter Bonsai model at double the speed of an iPhone 17 Pro,…
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Apple and OpenAI pursue opposite hardware strategies for the AI era
The hardware landscape is splitting into two distinct directions as artificial intelligence advances. Apple has introduced its first foldable phone, the "iPhone Duo," which expands from 5.4 inches to 7.6 inches to…
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Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella to attend White House dinner for Xi Jinping
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella will attend a White House state dinner honoring Chinese President Xi Jinping on September 24, 2026. The event marks Xi's first state visit to the White House since 2015. Other tech…
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Australian prime minister Albanese discusses AI and child safety with Apple exec Tim Cook
Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese met Apple executive chairman Tim Cook at the Cupertino campus, taking a selfie together. During the visit the two leaders talked about artificial intelligence and how to…
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