Apple's next CEO inherits a trillion-dollar empire and a glaring weakness that rivals have exploited for years. A top tech analyst says fixing one product could determine whether Apple leads the AI era or gets left behind.

Apple's returning to a familiar playbook in the AI age: leveraging a massive consumer reach to become Silicon Valley’s top rent collector.

Apple’s new Mac Studio pairs M5 Max and M5 Ultra chips with up to 512GB of unified memory, targeting demanding local AI and creative workloads.

Apple WWDC This story is part of our complete Apple WWDC coverage Updated less than 50 minutes ago Apple is giving its Mac lineup a split personality: one chip built to make everyday computing and on-device AI faster,

Apple's iOS 27 will be available for iPhone 11 and later, as well as iPhone SE (2nd generation and later). Also, Apple's upcoming iPhones, which are reportedly iPhone 18 Pro, 18 Pro Max, and the foldable iPhone Ultra, will almost certainly run iOS 27 out of the box.

"With these frameworks and new chips, developers can run and fine-tune large AI models locally on their Mac," Apple said.

The Mac mini and Mac Studio occupy two distinct points in Apple’s lineup of desktops, but lately, they’ve had something in common: They’re popular for local AI inference and software development thanks to the advantages of their unified memory architecture and the fast CPUs and GPUs on their systems-on-a-chip.

The AI model was developed specifically for the Chinese market in partnership with the Alibaba Group, a departure from the iPhone maker's strategy of relying on third-party models to power AI features ‌in the country.