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Founded in 1976 by Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak, and Ronald Wayne, Apple is best known for making some of the world’s most ubiquitous consumer devices, software, and services: the iPhone, iPad, iMac and MacBook computers, Apple TV, Apple Watch, iOS, iCloud, iTunes, Apple Music, Apple Pay, and many more. Led by CEO Tim Cook since 2011, Apple is one of the largest technology companies in the world alongside Microsoft, Google, Amazon, and Facebook.

Emma Roth
Emma Roth
Cursor launches an iPhone app for its AI coding agent.

Cursor, which SpaceX recently announced plans to acquire, says its new app can help users launch and track AI agents, as well as show updates about an agent’s progress via the iPhone’s Live Activities feature.

The Cursor app is available in beta on the App Store.

Jess Weatherbed
Jess Weatherbed
Apple is acquiring the Play app. No, not that one.

The Play design tool for Mac and iPhone won an Apple Design Award for innovation last year, and could be used to prototype iPhone app interfaces before it was pulled from the App Store. Apple doesn’t specifically mention how it’ll use Play, but its IP could be used to improve Xcode developer tools.

Jess Weatherbed
Jess Weatherbed
Mac and iPad devices might get a colorful OLED upgrade.

That’s according to this Trendforce report, which says Apple is planning to adopt OLED panels across its future MacBook Pro, iPad Pro, and iMac products that are capable of achieving 95 percent coverage of the BT.2020 color gamut. BT.2020 covers more of the visible color spectrum compared to DCI-P3 standard Apple currently uses.

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Richard Lawler
Richard Lawler
Apple’s Vision Pro and smart glasses leader reportedly leaves for OpenAI.

With its Vision Pro headset suddenly even more expensive, and plans for smart glasses apparently in the works, Bloomberg reports Apple is losing Paul Meade, the hardware VP who was in charge of those projects. The report says he’ll reunite with former Apple designers, including Jony Ive, Tang Tan, and Evans Hankey, at OpenAI, which purchased their startup last year, as the executive shakeup under new Apple CEO John Ternus continues.

Jay Peters
Jay Peters
The not-Pro iPhone 18 might get a small RAM bump to help with AI.

The iPhone 17 has 8GB of RAM, but Apple’s “lower-end” iPhones set to launch in the first half of next year will get — drumroll please — 9GB of RAM, says supply chain analyst Ming-Chi Kuo:

My latest industry checks suggest Apple’s lower-end 1H27 iPhones, powered by the A20 chip, will move to 9GB DRAM (1.5GB × 6 dies), up from 8GB (2GB × 4 dies) in the current A19 models, to keep the system running smoothly under AI workloads.

Emma Roth
Emma Roth
Apple’s rumored touchscreen MacBook may use M5 chips to start.

The touchscreen device will come with current-gen M5 Pro and M5 Max chips when it launches later this year or early 2027, according to Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman. Apple is reportedly planning to release an M7-equipped model in the future, as part of the company’s rumored plans to skip the M6 Pro and M6 Max.

Dominic Preston
Dominic Preston
Are you extracting enough value from the AI revolution?

I’m not sure there’s an AI agent that can solve the fact that everything costs more and the planet is melting.

Cpt_Slim_Jim:

Imma go out on a limb to say that I have not had any productivity increases from AI be worth the financial burden it has placed upon me and my family.

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Jess Weatherbed
Jess Weatherbed
Cyber breach exposes confidential Apple and Tesla files.

Tata Electronics, an India-based manufacturing partner for both companies, says it’s investigating a “cybersecurity incident” after the World Leaks ransomware group posted more than 200,000 component and specification documents on the dark web. The files reportedly include inspection ⁠standards for iPhone ​circuit board components, and drawings for the Model 3 revamp that Tesla launched in 2023.

Jay Peters
Jay Peters
A judge has formally set aside the entry of default against Apple leaker Jon Prosser.

That entry of default had indicated that Prosser hadn’t responded to Apple’s lawsuit against him. But Prosser’s (recently obtained) counsel and Apple’s counsel asked for the judge in the case to set it aside, which he did.

Prosser now has 10 days to respond to Apple’s complaint.

Emma Roth
Emma Roth
A little fun with iOS 27’s Spatial Reframing.

The AI-powered feature is designed to adjust the angle of a photo you’ve taken… but maybe not reconstruct your entire head.

Terrence O'Brien
Terrence O'Brien
Apple says dropping support for some Watches is about processing power.

Cait Dooley, Apple Watch and Health Product Marketing Manager, was quick to tell TechRadar that older Apple Watch models will still work with newer iPhones and receive security updates. It’s just that Siri AI and some other watchOS 27 features require a bit more horsepower.

“The great new features in watchOS, including the capabilities of Siri AI and the new tap gesture, work best with the processing power that is in Apple Watch Series 9 and later, Ultra 2 and later, and SE 3. Older devices can still be paired with iPhones that are running the latest software and continue to receive security updates, so they can continue to have a great Apple Watch experience.”

Jay Peters
Jay Peters
iOS users in Brazil will now be able to install alternative app marketplaces.

We knew this was coming thanks to a settlement Apple made with Brazil’s competition watchdog last year, but now it’s official.

Apple opening up iOS in Brazil follows similar changes made for users in Japan and the EU.

Emma Roth
Emma Roth
Another iPhone Air rumor.

Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman says that the next version of Apple’s ultra-slim device could arrive in spring 2027, echoing a previous report from The Information. Apple is reportedly working to improve the iPhone Air’s battery life and may add an ultrawide camera.

Stevie Bonifield
Stevie Bonifield
Apple’s customizable Camera app might launch with the iPhone 18 Pro.

Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman also said more third-party chatbots in Siri and modular Apple Watch faces are coming later this year, despite not making an appearance at WWDC.

Gurman also points out a few hints at WWDC about Apple’s rumored foldable iPhone, which could launch as soon as September, as well as a touchscreen Mac.

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Siri is better, but its limitations are much more obvious on a Mac than an iPhone.

Antonio G. Di Benedetto
Apple’s new AI photo editing tools mostly work, for better and worse

What is a photo, iOS 27 edition.

Allison Johnson
Siri is good now??Siri is good now??
David Pierce