Nov 01, 2026Twila Rosenbaum Apple is taking a deliberate approach to artificial intelligence, with hardware engineering chief John Ternus saying the company will not add AI just to match rivals. He argues that good AI should fade into the background and make products more useful. The company has begun rolling out a revamped Siri that uses personal context, on-screen awareness and private cloud processing. Ternus also pushed back on the idea that AI agents will make apps obsolete, saying product creation remains deeply human. View more
Nov 01, 2026Twila Rosenbaum iOS 27.2 adds Apple TV Multiview to iPhone, enabling up to four simultaneous live sports streams. The feature was previously limited to Apple TV, iPad, and Vision Pro, and it is especially well suited to the large unfolded display of iPhone Duo. Users can activate it from a new button in the Apple TV player and customize views for sports such as Formula 1. View more
Nov 01, 2026Twila Rosenbaum Apple has launched its first touchscreen Mac, a move that reverses Steve Jobs' long-standing dismissal of touch on laptops. Current CEO John Ternus says touch is intended as a supplementary input method, not a replacement for the trackpad and keyboard. The company argues the Mac remains an indirect-input device first, with touch available when convenient. The approach aims to satisfy users accustomed to touchscreens without compromising the precision and high-resolution interface Mac users expect. View more
Nov 01, 2026Twila Rosenbaum Apple's new touchscreen MacBook Pro brings tandem OLED, a thinner chassis and touch input for a roughly $400 premium, but it ships with the same chips as the non-touch models. The bigger story is that Apple is keeping the non-touch M5 Pro and M5 Max machines on sale instead of forcing buyers onto the pricier new design. That breaks with the company's 2016 Touch Bar playbook, when the only escape from the OLED strip was the entry-level 13-inch model. View more
Nov 01, 2026Twila Rosenbaum Apple has added a new MacBook Pro with PROLED XDR alongside the standard M5 Pro and M5 Max models. The premium version brings a lighter chassis, a touch-enabled tandem OLED display, Dynamic Island, and improved speakers. Performance, memory, battery life, and ports remain largely identical. Pricing starts $400 above the standard MacBook Pro. View more
Oct 31, 2026Twila Rosenbaum Apple’s $2,000 folding iPhone now supports the USB-C Apple Pencil through iOS 27.2, and the combination is more fun than expected. The native Notes app offers handwriting refinement and scribble-to-text, while the $4.99 TypeDraw app makes the Duo feel like an actual notebook. The experiment also reveals limits: few apps are optimized, the Pencil lacks pressure sensitivity, and the new-notebook effect fades. Still, it raises useful questions about attention and home-screen habits. View more
Oct 31, 2026Twila Rosenbaum Reddit is moving toward a logged-in-only experience, with CEO Steve Huffman saying the company will test the requirement in select markets outside the US in the coming months. The change is aimed at limiting unauthorized scraping, strengthening data protections, and improving ad relevance, though Reddit has not set a full rollout timeline. Reddit announced the plan alongside third-quarter 2026 earnings, which showed a meaningful decline in search traffic. Logged-out visitors and app users remain central to the debate over how open the platform should be. View more
Oct 31, 2026Twila Rosenbaum OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has stirred debate by arguing that scarce DRAM is better concentrated in data centers than distributed across personal computers. His comments come as AI infrastructure deals reserve large shares of global memory output and device prices climb. The article breaks down Altman's utilization argument, the forces behind the RAM shortage, and what the shift means for local AI, cloud computing, and consumers. View more
Oct 31, 2026Twila Rosenbaum OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said he sympathizes with mathematicians overwhelmed by AI-generated results but has no plans to slow the company’s math offensive. He argued that humanity deserves fundamental knowledge, even as researchers criticize poor attribution, insufficient context, and withheld details. OpenAI has released hundreds of mathematical findings this month and is facing new questions about gatekeeping after announcing breakthroughs in math, physics, and computer science. Altman also estimated the company has spent hundreds of millions of dollars on math, including about $10 million on a Navier-Stokes solution. View more
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