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Ryan Christoffel / 9to5Mac: Apple officially opens ad bookings for businesses on Apple Maps ahead of an upcoming full rollout across the US and Canada — Ads are coming to Apple Maps soon in the US and Canada, and…
Marcus Mendes / 9to5Mac: Epic v. Apple: Apple proposes commissions on US linked-out purchases of 15% for standard apps, 10% for partner programs and renewals, 5% for Small Business apps — Apple has submitted its…
Zac Hall / 9to5Mac: OpenAI previews Ultrafast, an API tier powered by Cerebras that runs GPT-5.6 Sol up to 14× faster and generates up to 750 output tokens per second — OpenAI is previewing a new way to run…
Zac Hall / 9to5Mac: SpaceXAI rolls out Grok Bot AI agent app in beta on Mac, iOS, Windows, and Linux, initially for SuperGrok Heavy, Cursor Ultra, and Cursor Teams Premium users — SpaceXAI and Cursor are in the…
Marcus Mendes / 9to5Mac: Anthropic announces a feature that allows different Claude Code sessions to message each other with updates and other information, available on macOS and Linux — Users running the latest…
Zac Hall / 9to5Mac: OpenAI debuts Agent Plugins, an open standard for bundling skills and MCP servers, and says Amazon, Cursor, Microsoft, and Vercel are on its steering committee — OpenAI's GPT-5 turns one…
Marcus Mendes / 9to5Mac: Apple says it “briefly removed Telegram from the App Store” over CSAM on Monday, restoring it after Telegram “promptly removed the content and banned the user” &mdash…
Zac Hall / 9to5Mac: Apple releases updates for iOS, macOS, iPadOS, watchOS, tvOS, and visionOS with a huge number of security fixes; macOS Tahoe 26.6 alone addresses 155 CVEs — Following the release of iOS 26.6…
Zac Hall / 9to5Mac: X rolls out X Money to US Premium and Premium+ subscribers, combining a deposit account with up to 6% APY, free instant transfers on X, and a Visa debit card — X has officially launched X…
Zac Hall / 9to5Mac: Meta quietly releases StoryKit, a new mobile app that uses AI to create personalized children's stories, including illustrations and original music, in Mexico — Meta has quietly released a new…
9to5Mac: Analysis finds 60+ “jacket apps” on the App Store disguised as simple games and utilities that become gambling apps when accessed from Brazilian IP addresses — An investigation by 9to5Mac…
Chance Miller / 9to5Mac: Apple raises the price of Apple Music, with the individual plan up by $1 to $11.99, and some Apple One bundles, the first price hike for Apple Music since 2022 — Apple has raised the…
Zac Hall / 9to5Mac: 1Password launches a new Claude integration for Mac that lets Anthropic's AI agent sign in to websites without seeing the user's password or 2FA code — 1Password is launching a new Claude…
Zac Hall / 9to5Mac: Anthropic announces a new Claude for Teachers initiative, as part of which it will provide K-12 teachers in the US free access to premium Claude features — Anthropic is providing free access…
Marcus Mendes / 9to5Mac: In response to Apple's trade secret theft lawsuit, OpenAI says “we have no interest in other companies' trade secrets” — OpenAI has issued a formal statement in response to…
Chance Miller / 9to5Mac: Apple sues OpenAI, alleging that ex-Apple employees stole “Apple's trade secrets for the benefit of OpenAI”, and says OpenAI never responded to its concerns — Apple has filed…
Zac Hall / 9to5Mac: OpenAI is discontinuing ChatGPT Atlas, its standalone desktop browser, in favor of the new ChatGPT desktop app — ChatGPT Atlas, OpenAI's standalone desktop browser, is being sunset in favor of…
Zac Hall / 9to5Mac: OpenAI merges Codex and ChatGPT desktop apps for Mac and Windows under a new ChatGPT desktop app, allowing users to switch between Codex, Chat, and Work — OpenAI held its second livestream…
Zac Hall / 9to5Mac: Anthropic extends Claude Fable 5 access to all paid plans through July 12; access to the model was set to shift to token-based usage on July 7 — Anthropic announced today that it is expanding…
Zac Hall / 9to5Mac: Claude Sonnet 5 costs $2 per 1M input tokens and $10 per 1M output tokens through August 31, after which prices rise to $3 and $15, respectively — Anthropic is upgrading Claude Sonnet…
Marcus Mendes / 9to5Mac: WhatsApp rolls out username reservations globally, allowing users to claim a unique name before the privacy-focused feature launches later this year — Following years of anticipation and…
Zac Hall / 9to5Mac: Notion plans to shut down its Gmail client Notion Mail on September 22 and go “all in” on AI agents to run inboxes, saying 50%+ of users do not open the inbox — Last year, Notion…
Marcus Mendes / 9to5Mac: Apple opens iOS to alternative app marketplaces in Brazil and changes App Store commission structure following a settlement with competition watchdog CADE — Starting today, app developers…
Benjamin Mayo / 9to5Mac: Apple announces tvOS 27, with performance enhancements, smart downloads, an updated Podcasts app, and more — Apple today announced tvOS 27, the next major software version for Apple TV…
Ryan Christoffel / 9to5Mac: Apple says its most powerful on-device AI model requires an iPhone 17 Pro, iPhone Air, iPad with M4 and later, or Mac with M3 and later, all with 12GB+ of RAM — Today at WWDC Apple…
Zac Hall / 9to5Mac: Apple announces Siri AI, with on-screen awareness, personal context understanding, a Dynamic Island-based interface, and more, along with a new Siri app — At WWDC 2026, Apple is detailing its…
Ryan Christoffel / 9to5Mac: Apple announces major performance improvements across its platforms, including up to 30% faster app launches and up to 80% faster AirDrop transfers — Today during its WWDC keynote…
Marcus Mendes / 9to5Mac: Apple announces macOS 27 Golden Gate, featuring Liquid Glass and search improvements, a fixed corner radius across apps and system windows, and more — During the WWDC keynote today, Apple…
Ryan Christoffel / 9to5Mac: Apple-funded study: the App Store had $1.4T in billings and sales globally in 2025; apps with consumer-facing AI saw 4x more billings growth than other apps — Apple shares update on…
Zac Hall / 9to5Mac: Perplexity announces a feature that lets Perplexity Computer split tasks between on-device AI models and server-based models — Perplexity has announced a major new feature coming soon to…
Ryan Christoffel / 9to5Mac: Apple says the App Store prevented over $2.2B in potentially fraudulent transactions in 2025, rejected over 2M problematic app submissions, and more — Ahead of Apple's annual developer…
Chance Miller / 9to5Mac: Plex says the price for the Lifetime tier of its Plex Pass plan will increase from $249.99 to $749.99 in July — Plex has announced a massive price increase for the Lifetime tier of its Plex…
Zac Hall / 9to5Mac: Replit says it has “worked things out with Apple”, which has approved a Replit update after four months, following a reported dispute over vibe coding apps — All's well that ends well in App Store…
Zac Hall / 9to5Mac: OpenAI adds remote access to Codex in the ChatGPT mobile app, letting users control Codex sessions running on a connected computer directly from a phone — OpenAI has released a new way to interact…
Zac Hall / 9to5Mac: Spotify says it will adopt Apple's HTTP Live Streaming tech for video podcasts later in 2026, helping creators distribute podcasts on Apple Podcasts and Spotify — Spotify is making two video podcast…
Zac Hall / 9to5Mac: Instagram rolls out Instants, which lets users share ephemeral photos, as an in-app feature in Instagram and as a standalone app in select countries — Meta just launched a brand new iPhone app…
Chance Miller / 9to5Mac: Apple releases iOS 26.5, introducing end-to-end encryption for RCS messaging in beta with supported carriers; the setting is enabled by default — iOS 26.5 is now available to everyone after six…
Zac Hall / 9to5Mac: OpenAI launches three new real-time voice models for reasoning, translation, and transcription, included in its Realtime API — OpenAI has just released three new realtime voice models that it says…