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After sharing initial details about OpenAI’s plans for its first smart device, Bloomberg has published a new report with more information about its form factor and price. Here are the details.

Counterpoint Research says Apple captured 65% of the premium smartphone market in the first half of 2026, as the segment grew to a record 29% of global smartphone sales. Here are the details.

In a joint status report filing, Apple said it hadn’t heard from Jon Prosser’s lawyer in a month, which his counsel attributed to Prosser caring for his newborn child. Here are the details.

While Apple TV has found success at the box office, Apple usually reserves theaters for its movies, not its series. However, one hit show from Apple this year is coming to the cinema for one night only in select venues across the country: Widow’s Bay.

Apple has now published the security details for today’s macOS Tahoe, Sequoia, and Sonoma updates, revealing that all three address a serious Screen Sharing vulnerability. Here is what Apple fixed.

Update, 2:24 p.m. ET: Apple has now revealed that the updates address a Screen Sharing vulnerability. You can learn more about it here. The original story follows below.

Apple rolled out macOS Sonoma 14.8.9, macOS Sequoia 15.7.9, and macOS Tahoe 26.6.1 today, skipping developer and public betas altogether. Here are the details.

Benjamin and Chance return for another episode recapping the week in Apple news, including the interesting details of Apple’s most recent earnings calls, the last of the Tim Cook era. Also, Apple complies with Microsoft’s Interoperability request for universal clipboard support on Windows, and John Ternus recruits an employee out of retirement to help lead his new company regime.

And in Happy Hour Plus, Chance is battling with HomeKit reliability woes, and ponders whether Benjamin’s messaging habits. Subscribe at 9to5mac.com/join.

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ChatGPT has become so much more than just chat over the last year. To that end, OpenAI is removing limits on text chat. ChatGPT will also improve with a smarter version of GPT-5.6 Sol. Details below.

MacBook Ultra is the rumored name for Apple’s exciting MacBook Pro overhaul with OLED, a touchscreen, Dynamic Island, and more. Here’s the latest on when to expect MacBook Ultra’s release.

OpenAI’s GPT-5 turns one tomorrow, and the company is marking the week by looking beyond individual models. Today, OpenAI introduced Agent Plugins, an open standard meant to let reusable AI-agent extensions work across compatible products.

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Apple dropped a staggering number of vulnerability patches in macOS Tahoe 26.6 last month. Plus a heap of fixes in iOS 26.6 and iPadOS 26.6. What stood out most to me was the number of credits that went to Claude, Codex, and other AI-adjacent tools and labs. The most I’ve ever seen in a single release.

Then came this week when Apple confirmed that it has capped the number of vulnerability reports a researcher can have open at once, with a 30-day cool-off period once that cap is reached.

On the surface, it looks like Apple got caught flat-footed here and started throwing up walls. It even admitted to “the growing volume of AI-generated security submissions across the industry” in its statement to the Financial Times.

However, it’s now increasingly clear that, since last year, nearly all of Apple’s rather baffling decisions around its security bug bounty program have been in preparation for this exact problem.

Lutron is expanding its existing Caseta integration with Sonos, adding the ability to control smart-home devices using Sonos Voice Control.

CarPlay in iOS 27 has a handful of new features and improvements, including two additions for some of Apple’s most popular apps, like Apple Music and Apple Podcasts.

Apple is gearing up for a more focused and potentially much more expensive iPhone launch this fall. 

For starters, the cheaper base iPhone 18 is being saved for spring. That leaves the more expensive Pro models and Apple’s first foldable iPhone Ultra to carry September, with higher-than-usual starting prices expected.

Here’s how Apple is already preparing to make the sticker shock more palatable for new customers and upgraders.

iOS 27 includes hints about the new iPhone Ultra, but it also points to an all-new Apple Home product likely launching soon: a security camera.

iPhone 18 Pro is only weeks away from launching, and a new report from Culpium indicates it could have limited availability due to a DRAM shortage holding up production.

Apple has adjusted its trade-in values across several iPhone, iPad, Mac, and Apple Watch models, as well as for select Android phones. Here are the new values.

Apple Arcade just scored a major hit game today. The subscription game service has added Madden NFL 27 Arcade Edition, including on the Mac and Apple TV. The new game arrives just before the new NFL pre-season kicks off.

Madden NFL 27 Arcade Edition is designed just for Apple Arcade. Apple Arcade games have no ads and no in-app purchases.

Adobe is unifying its ChatGPT integrations into a new plugin with more than 70 tools spanning photo editing, video, design, and PDFs. Here are the details.

We are touching down for an early, dedicated edition of today’s Lunch Break courtesy of 9to5Toys – AirPods Pro 3 have now dropped in price again at Amazon to deliver one of the best deals of the year at nearly 25% off. 

When Reddit significantly changed its user interface way back in 2018, there were widespread protests from those who preferred the original. The company has retained access to this at old.reddit.com, and last year promised this version would continue to exist for as long as people kept using it.

That promise may now be under some degree of threat as Reddit says that it “plans to make changes” to Old Reddit in order to protect against AI data scraping …