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Cupertino-based maker of the iPhone, Mac, iPad, Apple Watch and AirPods, and one of the world's most valuable public companies.
Apple has begun inviting selected media to an all-day product launch in Los Angeles on October 28, Bloomberg's Mark Gurman reports. Teams timing Mac refreshes get a date, but the announcements could come beforehand.
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Apple's iOS 27 Shortcuts adds three automation triggers and a Use Model action with four model choices, one of them ChatGPT, TechRepublic reports. The model picked in the editor governs where work data goes each time a trigger fires.
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Apple's $1,999 iPhone Duo opens for preorder today with camera features meant to get the photographer into the group shot. The camera drops the telephoto lens and the Pro video formats, so the fit depends on what the buyer shoots.
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Apple and Meta have enabled Meta's 816-billion-parameter Muse Spark Open model to run locally on clustered Mac Studios. CNBC reported that each 256GB M5 Ultra machine costs at least $10,799, so a two-machine cluster comes to $21,598 or more.
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Apple's $299 HomeView, a 7-inch Siri and FaceTime display, has had a mixed reception from YouTubers and the Apple community, MacRumors reported. The outlet says it makes more sense as a replacement for an Echo Show or Nest Hub.
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Calif.io showed an untethered jailbreak on an iPhone 18 Pro running iOS 27.0.1 at Hexacon in Paris, with root access returning after a reboot. No bugs are named and no tool is public, so patch timing turns largely on when Calif publishes.
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Apple opens iPhone Duo preorders on October 16 at $1,999 for the 256 GB model, with deliveries starting October 23. 9to5Mac says 5 AM Eastern, but Apple's store page, quoted by MacRumors, says 5:00 a.m. Pacific, a three-hour gap.
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Apple will ship its $299 HomeView hub on Nov. 13, with Siri AI as the selling point. The Wearables, Home and Accessories line it joins reported $7.88 billion in the June quarter, about 7% of revenue, so the hub is a small bet beside the iPhone.
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Settlement talks between Apple and the DOJ reportedly center on iPhone interoperability, according to The Information. PayPal and Epic Games are among developers worried the terms will be too light, and no deal exists yet.
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Apple has launched its own smart home line with LG and Schneider, with products starting at $200, The Verge reports. The Verge also says Apple is not addressing cost, a barrier shoppers rank high.
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Bonhams sold a working, Woz-signed Apple I for a record $1,148,200, roughly 1.7 times what the same machine fetched in 2013. It is one sale of one of 74 verified units, with a 2013 baseline that Engadget and 9to5Mac report differently.
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Apple's iPhone Duo pre-orders showed January 2027 or later on every configuration within an hour of opening, 9to5Google reported. Teams with a foldable rollout before then have to pick a device they can actually get.
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Windows Central and Tom's Guide each tested Nvidia's RTX Spark for a week in one laptop model, the Surface Laptop Ultra. Six partners start shipping this week, Windows Central says, so a pilot on any other chassis goes beyond what either review covered.
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Apple says four Mac Studios run Meta's Muse Spark Open at over 36 tokens per second, Computerworld reports. The speed is Apple's own measurement, and the cost case is the columnist's inference from the price of four machines.
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Meta released Muse Spark Open, an 816B-parameter open-weight model that activates 42B parameters per token. Per The New Stack, a company above $20M in revenue needs a separate Meta agreement before selling it as a hosted service.
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Microsoft accounted for 33% of the brand-impersonation phishing attempts Check Point Research tracked in Q3 2026, up from 23% in Q2. Its examples include fake Antigravity and Apple pages that get visitors to run terminal commands themselves.
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Apple's $1,999 iPhone Duo costs $700 more than the iPhone 18 Pro Max, according to MacRumors' buyer's guide. What that money buys is a folding inner screen, so the decision comes down to how often you would open it for real work.
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Apple's French regulatory site lists an unreleased Smart Folio for iPad mini, model A3632, in a document dated September 8, 2026. The mini 6 and 7 share one folio, so a new number is a first hint that today's cases may not fit the next mini.
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Apple CEO John Ternus argued in a TIME interview that Siri does not need to win the AI intelligence race, Tom's Guide reported. The new US Siri draws on Google's Gemini technology, so Apple's bet rests on what the phone already holds.
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Apple's internal Minions system moves stalled AI jobs onto idle Macs, cutting some 10-plus-hour GPU queues to as little as minutes. The researchers also saw a common worry about team data running on devices outside the group.
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