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Apple's iPhone Duo foldable and Services slowdown test CEO Ternus amid supply constraints and rising AI memory costs.

Apple will now let Siri AI perform actions across third-party apps. As part of the iOS 27.3 update rolling out on Tuesday, Apple announced developers can now integrate Siri AI's new features in "all apps," allowing the voice assistant to draw on a user's personal context, process natural language prompts, and use on-screen awareness to complete requests. The update, which is rolling out as part of a Developer Preview, also adds a new "app skills" feature that third-party developers can create to combine several tasks into a single action. In Apple's developer documentation, the company says u...

Apple Developer: Apple opens Siri AI to all developers with iOS 27.3 and other 27.3 OS betas, letting any app bring its content and actions into Siri AI by using App Intents — Starting today with the iOS 27.3, iPadOS 27.3, macOS 27.3, and visionOS 27.3 betas, a new Developer Preview enables any developer …

Apple’s annual filing warns that AI agents could exceed permissions, resist instructions or take actions that are difficult to reverse.

Starting today, Siri can tune into the Apple Watch's mic with Audio Intelligence features that are available in the new watchOS 27.3 developer beta rolling out now. The two new additions are Siri Recap, which uses "ambient listening" to generate summaries of your conversation, and Live Rewind, which generates text transcripts of the last 15 seconds of audio your watch's mic detected. Apple is also releasing its redesigned Health app for testing today in the iOS 27.3 developer beta, and announced expanded language support in global English, Chinese (Simplified and Traditional), French, Japanes...

Apple's new App Store rules will require 18+ ratings for dating apps and AI companions that offer sexual or romantic content.

Apple's latest earnings show how it's continuing to capitalize on the AI boom without busting its budget on the infrastructure spending consuming its competitors. Overall, Apple posted its best-ever fiscal year for revenue and earnings per share. iPhone and Mac sales continued to grow strongly in the fourth quarter. iPhone revenue rose 17.5% from a year earlier to a September quarter record of $57.6 billion while Mac revenue climbed 24% to $10.8 billion, its highest level in four years. Shares nevertheless fell in premarket trading Tuesday after Apple warned that rising memory costs would squ...

Apple's earnings suggest that the company's hardware business is doing better than ever, even in the face of memory challenges. Does the software story help or hurt?

Now in beta: Apple's new Audio Intelligence features can help you remember what someone said or take notes on conversations.

Apple's record fiscal 2026 performance left a central question unresolved: can premium-priced iPhones, AI, and expanding services sustain enough growth to justify a valuation approaching US$5 trillion? For new CEO John Ternus, the challenge is converting product innovation into lasting earnings growth rather than relying on Apple's established customer base.

Apple's HomeView smart display and HomeView Ultra robotic project delayed by AI inference bottlenecks.

Apple's holiday revenue forecast threatened by memory price inflation and rising Siri AI operational costs under new CEO John Ternus.

Apple explores unspecified third-party AI monetization strategies; no concrete details disclosed.

Apple plans $1,000 home robot by 2027 for FaceTime calls and light control, led by John Ternus.

Apple plans paid tiers and usage caps for Apple Intelligence cloud features by 2027.

Apple CEO reiterates cautious stance on AI deployment, prioritizing utility over rapid feature shipping.

Apple's John Ternus states company avoids deploying AI without purpose; Tim Cook available on policy matters.

Integer-exact MXFP4 kernel optimization runs 4-bit LLM weights on INT8 matrix units (Apple M5 GPUs) via single INT8 GEMM.

Apple Intelligence features launching in China via iOS 27.3 (Nov 4 beta, Dec full release) excluding Siri but including summaries and photo editing.

Apple integrates AI assistant from Apple and OpenAI models into Pages, Keynote, Numbers with context-aware editing.

Apple releases iOS 27.2 and macOS 27.2 with Siri AI enhancements including application access controls.

Ollama now supports speech models, starting with Phonon from Gradium. Read text aloud in five languages and dozens of voices, streamed as it is generated, over 100 times faster than real time on Apple Silicon.

Empirical evaluation of LLM inference optimizations (KV-cache pruning, speculative decoding, quantization) on Apple Silicon vs NVIDIA GPUs.

Opinion: In a world of AI slop, showing the human hands making things helps.

After introducing its Gemini AI assistant to Android Auto last year, Google is now bringing it to Apple CarPlay users. The conversational Gemini in navigation is available today for US drivers, with "rollout happening globally too," according to Google (we've asked for specific regional availability details). It's taken almost 12 months for Google to bring this to CarPlay users, but now they can talk to the voice assistant in Google Maps to get some hands-free help while driving. That includes asking it multi-step questions, such as recommendations on places to visit and then prompting it to ...

eMudhra Intermediate CA Compromise This is very, very bad news: The private keys of eight eMudhra intermediate CA certificates have been compromised. They chain to roots trusted by the Mozilla, Microsoft, Apple and Chrome root programs and by many downstream trust stores. Any software that bundles a list of trusted certificates needs to be updated. This site is tracking software updates via this GitHub repository - Linux distros need to update their ca-certificates packages. In Python world uv 0.13.4 and pip 26.2.2 and certifi 2026.10.19 have been released with upgraded certificate lists. Tag...

Meta releases Muse Spark open-source model with Apple partnership enabling local inference.

Stratechery analysis questions whether Apple's Siri AI improvements justify deeper ecosystem lock-in despite strong privacy reputation.