The Trump administration is pushing back against Apple's efforts to source memory chips from Chinese suppliers as the company looks for ways to ease an AI-driven supply crunch. Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick said after touring Apple's Houston manufacturing facility that the administration does not support the move, according to The Wall Street Journal.



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Apple has reportedly trained a large language model for the China market with help from Alibaba, according to Reuters. The move marks a shift in Apple's strategy for Apple Intelligence in China, where the company has previously relied on domestic AI partners because Western models such as Google Gemini, ChatGPT, and Claude are unavailable.



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Apple has asked a federal judge to approve a new commission structure for purchases made outside the App Store after users follow external links in iOS apps, proposing rates of up to 15 percent for standard apps and lower commissions for qualifying programs.

In a remand proffer submitted to the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California, the company outlined the commission structure after Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers declined to pause the fee-setting proceedings.


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Google has introduced Gemini 3.7 Flash, a new AI model for coding and agent workflows that arrives just three weeks after Gemini 3.6 Flash. Google says the update delivers stronger performance across software engineering, web development, and knowledge work while cutting introductory pricing in half compared with the original 3.6 Flash cost per million tokens.



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Apple has added the iPhone X and 2018 15-inch MacBook Pro to its worldwide obsolete products list, according to an August 13 update to its vintage and obsolete products support page.



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Apple's first foldable iPhone could be announced in September but initially launch only in the U.S., leaving Australia and other markets waiting several months, according to a ChannelNews report.



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Apple is negotiating multiyear agreements with news publishers to give Siri AI access to current news and information, according to The Wall Street Journal.



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U.S. smartphone sales fell 5% year over year in the second quarter of 2026 as memory price hikes and broader economic pressures weakened demand, according to Counterpoint Research. Smaller smartphone makers were hit hardest, while Apple, Samsung, Motorola, and Google were better able to leverage their scale to manage rising component costs.



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Apple has hired Nate Gatten, who most recently served as American Airlines' head of government affairs, as its next vice president of government affairs.



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SpaceXAI has released Grok 4.6, an updated AI model the company says delivers performance comparable to OpenAI's GPT-5.6 Sol and Anthropic's Claude Fable 5. The release focuses on long-running agents, coding, knowledge work, and more ambitious interactive and visual projects.



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Google has unveiled the Pixel 11 series, Pixel Watch 5, Pixel Tag, and updated Pixel Buds features ahead of Wednesday's Made by Google 2026 presentation.



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Pegatron has lent further support to reports that Apple's standard iPhone 18 won't arrive alongside the Pro lineup this September. During its second-quarter earnings call, Pegatron said one of its smartphone customers would adopt a different shipment schedule. Taiwan's Economic Daily News identified that customer as Apple, reporting that the iPhone 18 Pro, iPhone 18 Pro Max, and Apple's first foldable iPhone remain on track for their usual September debut, while the base iPhone 18 is now expected in the first quarter of 2027. The comments build on earlier indications from lens supplier Largan and months of supply-chain speculation about a staggered iPhone rollout.



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Apple employees widely refer to the company's upcoming foldable iPhone as the "iPhone Ultra," says reporter Mark Gurman in a post on X. The remark adds another piece of evidence that Apple may extend its Ultra branding to the new device, though he stopped short of confirming it as the final product name.



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OpenAI has released a preview of its ChatGPT desktop app for Linux, bringing native support to Ubuntu, Debian, and Fedora and extending ChatGPT across every major desktop operating system.

"Linux has been one of the most-requested platforms for the desktop app, and this launch extends ChatGPT and Codex across every major desktop operating system," OpenAI said in an announcement on X. The app lets users access ChatGPT, ChatGPT Work, and Codex directly on supported Linux distributions.


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Apple has held preliminary discussions with the R&A about acquiring U.S. broadcast rights to golf's Open Championship, according to a report from The Guardian, which cited a source with knowledge of the company's plans. The talks come as NBC's current U.S. media rights agreement approaches its expiration in 2028, with the formal tender process expected to begin early next year.



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Apple today released the third public betas of iOS 27 and iPadOS 27, one day after seeding developer beta 5. Apple also made the third public betas of macOS 27 Tahoe, tvOS 27, watchOS 27, and HomePod Software 27 available to members of its free Apple Beta Software Program.



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Jennifer Bailey, Apple's longtime vice president of Apple Pay, is retiring in October after more than 25 years at the company, adding to a series of executive changes at Apple.



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Apple has extended how long it holds OLED display panels in reserve, moving from a four-week inventory buffer to six weeks starting in the second quarter of 2026, according to a report from ETNews citing industry sources in South Korea. The move marks a notable shift from Apple's long-standing practice of treating inventory as a cost to be minimized, allowing it to operate one of the leanest supply chains in the technology industry.



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