The veteran hardware executive takes over as the $4.7 trillion company has struggled to compete with rivals in artificial intelligence.

For better or worse, Tim Cook's legacy is likely to be determined by something we don't really know the answer to yet: the company's bet to build its AI strategy partly around other companies' models.

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 is locking in developers as they rush toward deskside AI.

AI infrastructure is expanding beyond the giant GPU clusters that have defined the boom. The next phase of artificial intelligence is increasingly about agents that can use computers, write and test code,

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.

Apple has predictable habits for releasing new hardware, so it was a surprise when the tech giant revealed new Macs with updated, more powerful chips last week. The refreshed hardware arrived before Apple’s traditional iPhone event,