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EU's High Court to Apple: Hand Over $14.3B to Ireland

European Court of Justice dismisses tech giant's appeal to avoid forking over back taxes

(Newser) - The European Union's top court on Tuesday rejected Apple's final legal challenge against an order from the bloc's executive commission to repay $14.3 billion in back taxes to Ireland, bringing an end to the long-running dispute. The European Court of Justice overruled a lower court's...

You Can Soon Use Your AirPods as Hearing Aids

And more from Apple's latest product showcase

(Newser) - Apple squarely shifted its focus toward artificial intelligence with the unveiling of its hotly anticipated iPhone 16 along with a slew of new features coming with the next update to the device's operating system. While the new phone lineup headlined Monday's showcase, the tech giant also shared updates...

Apple Unveils Phones 'Built for Apple Intelligence'

Tim Cook gets standing ovation as he announces new iPhone 16 models

(Newser) - Apple charged into the artificial intelligence craze on Monday with a new iPhone lineup that marks the company's latest attempt to latch onto a technology trend and transform it into a cultural phenomenon. The four different iPhone 16 models will all come equipped with special chips needed to power...

Berkshire Hathaway Sells, Especially Apple Shares

Warren Buffett's conglomerate is now sitting on a record amount of cash

(Newser) - Warren Buffett's company sold almost half its shares in Apple last quarter, ballooning its cash stockpile to a record $276.94 billion. A financial report released Saturday shows that Berkshire Hathaway sold a net $75.5 billion in stocks in the three-month period ending June 30. The accumulation of...

Apple Intelligence Is Out With Some Promised Features

Developer version will be followed by others over the next year

(Newser) - The debut version of Apple Intelligence rolled out Monday, providing a look at some of the improvements planned and clarity about which ones won't be out for a while. The release is a developer-only beta version of iOS, iPadOS 18.1, and MacOS Sequoia 15.1, the Wall Street ...

First Union Store Has Deal With Apple

Three-year tentative agreement would raise workers' pay 10%

(Newser) - Apple has reached a tentative collective bargaining contract with the first unionized company store in the country. The International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers' Coalition of Organized Retail Employees, which represents the employees at a retail location in Maryland, announced Friday evening that it struck a three-year deal with...

Women Want Pay Equity Suit to Cover 12K Apple Workers

Filing says company violates California law

(Newser) - A suit filed Thursday saying that Apple pays women less than men for similar work includes the company's hiring practices used to set compensation and its performance-review policies. The suit, filed in a San Francisco state court, was brought by two female employees and seeks class-action status, which would...

Apple Lifts S&P 500 to Record High
Apple Lifts S&P 500
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Apple Lifts S&P 500 to Record High

Company jumps 7.3% after highlighting push into AI

(Newser) - Stocks drifted to a mixed close overall on Wall Street, but the S&P 500 and Nasdaq composite still managed to notch more record highs. A big gain in Apple helped push both indexes higher Tuesday. The company jumped 7.3% after highlighting its push into artificial intelligence .
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Musk: I'll Ban My Workers From Using iPhones

He calls Apple's new partnership with ChatGPT a security breach

(Newser) - Apple unveiled its new foray into artificial intelligence on Monday, and Elon Musk is not a fan. So much so that he's threatening to forbid employees at his companies from using iPhones and other Apple products, reports CNET . Even visitors would have to leave their iPhones at the door...

Conference Gives a Look at Apple Intelligence

OpenAI intends to help company catch up to Google and Microsoft

(Newser) - Apple jumped into the race to bring generative artificial intelligence to the masses during its World Wide Developers Conference on Monday, previewing an onslaught of features designed to soup up the iPhone and other products with technology already available on rival devices. In a twist befitting a company known for...

Apple Releases Fix for 'Zombie' Photos on iPhones

Users have complained that pictures deleted years ago are reemerging after update

(Newser) - Apple has had a "pretty bad" issue going on with its iPhones, though it hopes a fix it just released will remedy the situation. The problem, according to 9to5Mac : Users say that photos they deleted, some even years ago, have been popping up again unexpectedly. The users say the...

1st Apple Store to Unionize Will Also Be 1st to Strike

Union votes to authorize a strike against Apple's retail operations at Maryland location

(Newser) - It was the first Apple Store to unionize, and now it will be the first Apple Store to strike. Employees at the Towson, Maryland, Apple Store, located in the suburbs of Baltimore, voted Saturday night to authorize a strike against Apple's retail operations, according to a statement from the...

Apple Goes to Work on Siri to Catch Up With Chatbot Rivals

Virtual assistant has fallen behind, unable to handle more complex tasks

(Newser) - Apple bosses were not pleased after checking out OpenAI's new chatbot last year. ChatGPT, they realized, had lapped Siri. It employed generative artificial intelligence to write poetry and and computer code. It answered complex questions, while Siri often misunderstood direct ones. Siri couldn't compete. So Apple launched a...

Apple: Sorry About That Ad Where We Crushed All Creativity

Company offers apology for iPad Pro commercial showing the crushing of creative items from past

(Newser) - Apple's newest ad, showing the destruction of all things creative to create an iPad Pro, "struck a nerve online," with one critic noting, per the AP : "This ... commercial says, 'No, we're going to take all the creativity in the world and use a hydraulic...

Apple Reports Steep Drop in iPhone Sales

10% year-on-year drop in Q1 is biggest decline since pandemic hit production in 2020

(Newser) - Apple on Thursday disclosed its steepest quarterly decline in iPhone sales since the pandemic's outset, deepening a slump that's increasing the pressure on the trendsetting company to spruce up its products with more artificial intelligence. The 10% drop in year-over-year iPhone sales for the January-March period is the...

Apple: We're Working on Fix for Glitchy iPhone Alarms

For some, the alarms have stopped working

(Newser) - Some people who rely on their iPhones to wake them up in the morning have gotten unwanted extra sleep of late, reports Today . It seems that for some, the alarms have inexplicably stopped working. It's not clear what's going on, or even how many phones are affected, but...

Apple Makes a Big Move on iPhone Repairs

'Parts pairing' won't apply to iPhone 15 fixes starting this fall, company says

(Newser) - Apple is making a big change that could make it cheaper, and easier, for people to get iPhones repaired. The company said in an update Thursday that in a new process beginning this fall with "select iPhone models," customers and independent repair shops will be able to replace...

US Sues Apple, Alleges an Illegal Monopoly

Justice Department says the iPhone maker stifles competition

(Newser) - The Justice Department on Thursday announced a sweeping antitrust lawsuit against Apple, accusing the tech giant of engineering an illegal monopoly in smartphones that boxes out competitors and stifles innovation, per the AP . The lawsuit, filed in federal court in New Jersey, alleges that Apple has monopoly power in the...

Report: Apple in Talks Over 'Blockbuster' Google Deal

Sources say Apple is in talks to use Google's Gemini AI in new iPhones

(Newser) - Insiders say Apple and Google are in talks over a deal that could be massive for both companies. The sources say Apple is looking into using Google's Gemini generative artificial intelligence technology in the next iPhone model. Bloomberg reports that the negotiations could lead to "a blockbuster agreement...

Apple Agrees to Pay $490M in iPhone Suit by Investors

Tim Cook said demand in China was strong just before cutting revenue forecast

(Newser) - Apple has agreed to pay $490 million to end a class-action lawsuit accusing its CEO of misleading investors with a false assurance about demand for iPhones in China. The suit was sparked by Apple's unexpected announcement on Jan. 2, 2019, that the company planned to cut its quarterly revenue...

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