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Always-Listening AI Wearables Are Running Into Wiretap Laws — and the Liability Lands on You
Lawyers tell CNBC that always-listening AI wearables from Apple, Amazon, and Meta could violate state wiretap laws even though none of them store audio — and the liability would fall on the wearer, not the company.
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Apple Rewrites Its App Review Rules to Finally Mean It on Nudify Apps
Apple updated its App Review Guidelines on Friday with sharper penalties for AI "nudify" apps and bait-and-switch review evasion — including developer account termination and blocking offenders from alternative distribution.
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iPhone Duo sells out in minutes; new orders slip to January 2027
Apple's first foldable iPhone sold through its launch allocation within half an hour of pre-orders opening, pushing new delivery estimates into late January 2027 — the furthest out iPhone pre-order dates have ever slipped.
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iPhone Duo Pre-Orders Are Live, and Some Models Already Slip to Late January
Apple opened iPhone Duo pre-orders at 8 a.m. ET, and within 20 minutes some U.S. configurations were quoting delivery in late January.
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Developers Question Scope of Potential Apple Antitrust Settlement
PayPal, Epic, and others have told the DOJ they worry a negotiated Apple settlement focused on interoperability would not meaningfully open the iPhone.
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Apple Store Goes Down Ahead of iPhone Duo Pre-Orders at 8AM ET
Apple's online store is offline ahead of iPhone Duo pre-orders, which open at 5 a.m. PT (8 a.m. ET) today in more than 70 countries and regions.
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Meta Releases Muse Spark Open Weights, Tuned to Run on Two Mac Studios
Meta calls the 816B-parameter model the most capable US open-weight model yet, and it worked with Apple to optimize it for MLX on M5 Ultra.
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John Ternus Lands on TIME's Cover and Calls Rival Foldables "Cheap and Crappy"
Apple's new CEO fronts TIME's Best Inventions of 2026 issue and talks iPhone Duo, Tim Cook's new role, and why Apple leans on Google's Gemini for Siri.
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IDC Says Smartphone Shipments Fell a Record 22% and Apple Is Now 500,000 Units Behind Samsung
Global phone shipments dropped 22% year over year in Q3 as the memory shortage kept squeezing makers, and Apple's 4% dip was the smallest among the top five.
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Hatfield Apple-1 Sells for $1.15M, an Auction Record for a Retail Unit
The working Apple-1 came with a 1978 Steve Jobs letter offering its owner an Apple II board swap, and it blew past its $500,000 to $800,000 estimate at Bonhams.
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Greg Joswiak Says Apple Doesn't Feel Threatened by OpenAI's Hardware Plans
Apple's marketing chief told TIME the company isn't building AI for the "lunatic fringe" chasing superintelligence, and that its integration gives it the edge over OpenAI devices.
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Apple TV 4K and HomeView Preorders Already Slip to Late November
Both launch November 13, but new orders from Apple now quote November 20 to 27, while Amazon still promises launch-day delivery.
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Apple Says It Found No Trace of OpenAI's Files on Its Returning Engineer
Apple's new court filing says OpenAI raised its file-theft claim without notice, that Apple's search turned up nothing, and that OpenAI went to the judge instead of answering Apple's follow-up questions.
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Apple Invites Media to an October 28 Launch for Touchscreen MacBook Pros
Apple is bringing press to Los Angeles on October 28 for an all-day hands-on with touchscreen MacBooks, M6 Macs and a new iPad mini, per Bloomberg's Mark Gurman.
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Apple and Nvidia Each Gave $25M to Trump's White House Ballroom
A Washington Post donor list shows Nvidia, Apple, Google, Microsoft, Amazon and Meta put a combined $92 million toward the project.
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OpenAI Says an Employee Who Went Back to Apple Took Over 100 Files on Its Unreleased Device
In a court filing in Apple's trade secrets suit, OpenAI says a worker who came from Apple and returned after six months sent device images, supplier data, and engineering files to personal accounts.
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OpenAI Agrees Not to Use Alleged Apple Trade Secrets While the Suit Plays Out
After a San Jose judge said he was highly likely to grant Apple a preliminary injunction, OpenAI volunteered not to use the secrets Apple says were stolen and to image 14 employees' devices.
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iPhone Duo's China Filing Lists Apple Intelligence and Alibaba's Qwen
The China-market iPhone Duo's network license now carries filing numbers for Apple Intelligence and two Alibaba models, a sign the mainland rollout is close.
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iPhone Duo's A20 Pro Shows Up on Geekbench, Matching the iPhone 18 Pro
The first Geekbench 7 result for Apple's foldable scores 3986 single-core and 11067 multi-core, right in line with the iPhone 18 Pro.
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Apple Moves the 12-Inch MacBook, iPad 6, and BeatsX to Its Obsolete List
The last 12-inch MacBook, the 2018 iPad, and BeatsX earbuds are now officially obsolete, which means Apple Stores generally won't repair them anymore.