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Tim Cook Has One Week Left, and Ternus Inherits an Apple Mid-Pivot
Posted by Andru Edwards Categories: Apple, Corporate News,
Apple threw Tim Cook a party. Roughly 200 people at Caffè Macs, OneRepublic playing in the courtyard, tributes from Laurene Powell Jobs, services chief Eddy Cue, former COO Jeff Williams, and the man taking his job. It happened on August 23, one day before the fifteenth anniversary of the day Cook replaced Steve Jobs.
On September 1, John Ternus becomes Apple's eighth CEO. Cook doesn't leave the building, though, as he becomes executive chairman. He'll be focused on engaging with policymakers around the world, which is a polite way of saying he keeps handling the regulators and trade fights he has spent a decade getting good at.
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Apple’s Magic Keyboards Finally Match the MacBook’s Keycaps
Posted by Andru Edwards Categories: Apple, Peripherals,
Look at the modifier keys on a MacBook and then at the ones on a desktop Magic Keyboard. The laptop shows symbols. The desktop keyboard spells out the words. Apple has been shipping that mismatch for years, and today it quietly fixed it.
All four Magic Keyboards now use MacBook-style keycaps with symbols instead of words. They went on sale immediately, alongside the new Mac mini and Mac Studio, and the prices did not move.
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Xpeng Raised $900 Million to Build Humanoid Robots on a Car Assembly Line
Posted by Andru Edwards Categories: Misc. Tech, Transportation, Artificial Intelligence,
Xpeng's robotics business just raised more than $900 million at a valuation above $6.3 billion, in what the company says is the largest single private round China's embodied AI sector has seen. IDG Capital led it, Gaorong Ventures joined, and Tencent and Alibaba came in as strategic investors.
The money goes toward one machine: a humanoid robot called IRON, which Xpeng expects to enter mass production by the end of 2026.
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Apple Cut the Price of the Polishing Cloth in Half
Posted by Andru Edwards Categories: Accessories, Apple,
Apple spent this morning raising the price of its cheapest desktop by 50 percent. It also released a new Polishing Cloth for $9, down from $19. The cloth is the only thing in the lineup that got cheaper today.
It's available now. Apple's product description is word for word what it was before: soft, nonabrasive material that safely cleans any Apple display, including nano-texture glass.
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The M5 Ultra Fuses Four Chips Into One, a First for Apple Silicon
Posted by Andru Edwards Categories: Apple, PC / Laptop,
Every Ultra chip Apple has shipped so far has been two Max chips bolted together with an interconnect called UltraFusion. The M5 Ultra is four. That's the whole story, and it's a bigger deal than the core counts make it sound.
Apple announced M5 Ultra today inside the new Mac Studio, where it scales to a 36-core CPU, an 80-core GPU, and 512GB of unified memory. Apple calls it the most powerful chip it has ever made. It's also the most structurally unusual.
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The Echo Dot Is $79.99 Now, and AI Data Centers Are the Reason
Posted by Andru Edwards Categories: Home Entertainment, Smart Home, Misc. Tech,
The Amazon Echo Dot cost $49.99 last week. It costs $79.99 now, a 60 percent jump that Amazon made overnight with no announcement. Fortune caught the change across Amazon's hardware lineup and got the company to confirm it.
Amazon's explanation is the one every hardware maker is giving this year. A spokeswoman said the consumer electronics industry is facing steep increases in memory and storage component costs, and that Amazon absorbed them for as long as it could before adjusting prices across its product lines.
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Nvidia’s Groq Chip Is in Full Production, and It Exists to Fix One Annoying Thing
Posted by Andru Edwards Categories: Misc. Tech, Artificial Intelligence,
When you hand an AI coding agent a task and it sits there for eleven seconds before doing anything, you're feeling a very specific bottleneck. Not training. Not raw compute. Token generation speed, which is how fast a model produces its answer one piece at a time. Nvidia just put a chip into full production that does almost nothing else.
Announced at Hot Chips 2026, the Groq 3 LPX is an inference accelerator that extends Nvidia's Vera Rubin platform. It's also the first real product to emerge from Nvidia's $20 billion Groq acquisition, and Nebius is the first AI cloud signed up to run it.
The New M5 Ultra Mac Studio is an AI Beast That Holds Up to 512GB of Memory
Posted by Andru Edwards Categories: Apple, PC / Laptop, Artificial Intelligence,
Apple announced the machine this morning alongside the new M6 and M5 Pro Mac mini. Pre-orders are open now, shipping starts September 22, and the 512GB configuration doesn't arrive until late October. The M5 Max model starts at $2,499.
Garmin’s Fenix 9 Pro Gets a Titanium Case and a Satellite Lifeline
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The Fenix 9 starts at $999.99. The Fenix 9 Pro starts at $1,099.99. Both are available now.
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Apple’s M6 Is Its First 2nm Chip. Here’s What That Actually Changes
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Apple's new M6 chip is here, and you may be wondering what's different this time around. It's a 2 nanometer chip, but process nodes are some of the most over-hyped numbers in tech. "2 nanometer" doesn't describe the size of anything you could measure on the die. Instead, it's a label for a manufacturing generation, and it has been marketing shorthand for years. So when Apple says M6 is its first 2nm chip, the useful question is "What did Apple do with that new headroom?"
Based on what Apple published today: two more CPU cores, two more GPU cores, a second Neural Engine, and more memory bandwidth, all packed into a smaller die. M6 debuts in the new Mac mini, which starts at $899 and ships September 22.
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