Apple is testing memory chips from China's Changxin Memory Technologies (CXMT) for potential use in iPhones and MacBooks as the company seeks to address component shortages caused by the AI boom. The move requires White House regulatory clearance and follows months of lobbying by Apple.
Apple has officially integrated Alibaba's Qwen large language model into its Apple Intelligence system for Mac users in mainland China, allowing the AI service to power Siri and Writing Tools features. The integration was confirmed through a new support page on Apple's China website.
OpenAI has asked a federal judge to dismiss Apple's lawsuit alleging that the AI company and two former Apple employees stole trade secrets to expand into consumer hardware. OpenAI released text messages and emails claiming to expose factual errors in Apple's case and arguing it is building something 'entirely new.'
Researchers demonstrate fingertip sensors can identify physical patterns linked to stress, anxiety and depression, while major wearable companies including Whoop, Oura, and Apple expand into healthcare applications. Amae Health partners with Google Health to integrate Fitbit and voice biomarkers for precision psychiatry.
Apple has asked a U.S. federal judge to issue a preliminary injunction barring OpenAI and two former Apple employees from accessing or using alleged confidential information related to hardware development. The request is part of an ongoing trade secrets lawsuit involving former iPhone leaders who now work at OpenAI.
Surging demand for AI infrastructure is causing a severe shortage of memory chips and passive components, dubbed 'RAMaggedon,' with Samsung predicting supply constraints through 2028. The crunch is raising prices for laptops, smartphones, and potentially automobiles, while delaying product launches like Apple's MacBook Air M5.
Cryptocurrency exchange Bybit announced on July 31, 2026, that it will allow users to pledge six tokenized stocks (xStocks) as collateral across its margin trading, crypto loans, and institutional lending services. The tokenized equities include shares of Nvidia, Apple, Tesla, Robinhood, Circle, and Google.
Cryptocurrency exchange Bybit has integrated xStocks tokenized equities into its Dual Asset structured product, offering fixed-return yield products backed by shares of SpaceX, Nvidia, Apple, Alphabet, Coinbase, and Amazon with investment periods ranging from 8 hours to 1 day.
Apple sent cease-and-desist letters to around 40 former employees now working at OpenAI, requesting meetings with lawyers and instructing them to preserve documents and communications. This follows Apple's trade secrets lawsuit against OpenAI filed last week.
San Francisco City Attorney David Chiu sent cease-and-desist letters demanding Apple and Google remove 13 apps that generate non-consensual nude images. The apps can be used to create deepfake nude images of people without their consent.
China's cyberspace regulator has officially registered Apple's on-device generative AI service, Apple Intelligence, for use on iPhones in the country. To comply with local regulations, Apple is partnering with domestic tech companies including Alibaba and Baidu to integrate their AI models for Chinese users.
Apple is evaluating technology from Silicon Valley startup PrismML that can compress large AI models to run directly on iPhones. The startup has demonstrated its compression technology by shrinking Alibaba's Qwen 3.6 language model to run on the iPhone 17 Pro.
Apple filed a 41-page lawsuit against OpenAI alleging corporate espionage after discovering a bug that allowed a former Apple engineer who joined OpenAI to maintain access to confidential information. OpenAI pushed back against the allegations on Tuesday.
Filed on July 10, 2026, this federal lawsuit accuses OpenAI of stealing trade secrets to develop competing AI hardware devices. The suit claims former Apple employees took confidential information about upcoming products for OpenAI's benefit, marking a major rupture in the partnership between the iPhone maker and the ChatGPT developer.
Following an internal restructuring that merges safety and research under a single leader, head of safety systems Johannes Heidecke is departing OpenAI, with Mia Glaese elevated to the newly created VP of Research and Safety role and Saachi Jain named interim head of safety systems.
Apple announced a multiyear partnership extension with Broadcom worth over $30 billion that will produce more than 15 billion custom wireless connectivity chips in the United States through 2031. The deal includes expansion of Broadcom's Colorado manufacturing facility and represents Apple's largest U.S. manufacturing commitment to date.
Apple Inc. announced price increases across its Mac, iPad, and other product lines on Thursday, citing rising costs from an unprecedented shortage of memory and storage chips driven by AI demand. Apple shares fell 6% following the announcement.
Apple announced a comprehensive AI-powered Siri upgrade and iOS 27 at its annual developer conference, delivering on promises made two years ago for a smarter assistant with more personalized features and Apple Intelligence integration.
Prime Minister Keir Starmer announced on Monday that tech companies including Apple and Google have until September to install software blocking children from sending, receiving, or viewing nude images on their devices, or face legislation forcing them to comply.
Apple announced it will be supply-constrained on Mac Mini, Studio, and Neo models in the next quarter, attributing the shortage to unexpected AI-driven demand. The $599 Mac Mini is reportedly no longer available.
American musician Garrett Dutton (G. Love) lost 5.9 Bitcoin ($420,000) after entering his seed phrase into a fraudulent Ledger app that appeared on Apple's App Store. The funds were quickly sent to KuCoin deposit addresses.
Anthropic restricted access to its Claude Mythos AI model after it identified thousands of zero-day vulnerabilities across major operating systems, browsers, and cryptography libraries that DeFi infrastructure depends on. The company warned AI models have reached coding capability surpassing most skilled humans at finding exploits.
Anthropic debuted a powerful new AI model called Mythos as part of Project Glasswing, a cybersecurity partnership with Nvidia, Google, AWS, Apple, Microsoft and other major companies for defensive security work.
China has ordered Apple to pull Bitchat, a peer-to-peer messaging app that runs over Bluetooth and mesh networks without internet, from its App Store. The app has been used during protests in Iran, Madagascar, Uganda, Nepal, and Indonesia when authorities restricted internet access.
