John Ternus steps into the CEO role at Apple with the stock near a record high, but the hardware event eight days away demands something far harder than a good quarter: a convincing answer to why the iPhone stays at the center of computing when AI agents start replacing the apps on it.

Apple’s new Mac Mini and Mac Studio are great for hosting local AI models—and saving money.

By Aditya Soni Sept 1 (Reuters) - When Tim Cook took over as Apple's CEO, he did not try to fill the big shoes of its legendary founder and product visionary Steve Jobs. Instead, he took Jobs' advice: "Never ask what I would do,

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,

"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 Inc. CEO John Ternus is positioned to secure the tech giant’s “device dominance” as the artificial intelligence revolution accelerates, according to BofA Securities, which reiterated a Buy rating and a $380 price target,

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.