Apple Inc. News
Latest Apple Inc. news, funding rounds and robotics & AI coverage. 20 articles tracked by The Robotics Media.
About Apple Inc.
Apple Inc. is a consumer electronics and software company that designs, manufactures and sells smartphones (iPhone), personal computers (Mac), tablets (iPad), wearables (Apple Watch, AirPods) and the Vision Pro headset, alongside operating systems (iOS, macOS) and services (App Store, iCloud, Apple TV+). The company also designs its own silicon, including the A-series and M-series system-on-chips used across its devices.
Since 2024 Apple has built "Apple Intelligence," a set of on-device and cloud (Private Cloud Compute) generative AI features integrated into its operating systems, including writing tools, image generation, notification summaries and an upgraded Siri. In 2026 Apple trained a proprietary large language model for the Chinese market, developed with technical support from Alibaba, making it the first foreign company approved by Chinese regulators to offer its own proprietary AI model in China; Apple has also agreed to integrate Alibaba's Qwen model as an optional AI extension for Chinese users.
Apple was founded in 1976 by Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak and Ronald Wayne and is headquartered at Apple Park in Cupertino, California. It trades on the Nasdaq under the ticker AAPL.
Key facts
Products by Apple Inc.
- Apple Intelligence (AI Model, 2024) — A suite of generative AI features (writing tools, image generation, notification summaries, Siri upgrades) built into iOS, iPadOS and macOS, using on-device mod...
- Apple Intelligence China LLM (AI Model, 2026) — A proprietary large language model trained by Apple with technical support from Alibaba to power Apple Intelligence features for users in mainland China.
- Apple Silicon (A-series / M-series) (Component, 2020) — Custom system-on-chip designs, including Neural Engine AI accelerators, used across iPhone, iPad and Mac.
Latest Apple Inc. news
- Humble Robotics Raises $51M to Build Cabless Electric Trucks That Drive Themselves — Ex-Apple and Uber engineer Eyal Cohen's startup hit $75M in total funding in under a year, betting that designing the truck and its autonomy stack tog...
- SYNCERE Raises $11 Million to Scale Lume, Its Laundry-Folding Lamp Robot — Palo Alto startup SYNCERE closed an $11 million pre-seed round led by a16z Speedrun to scale production of Lume, a lamp-shaped robot that folds laundr...
- Apple Eyes NVIDIA NVLink For M8 Ultra AI Servers Targeting 2029 — Apple is designing its own AI servers around 2x and 4x M8 Ultra configurations and evaluating NVIDIA's NVLink Fusion interconnects, with a 2029 launch...
- Snap Ships $2,195 Specs AR Glasses With NVIDIA And Salesforce Onboard — Snap unveiled its $2,195 Specs augmented-reality headset with an on-device Specs Intelligence assistant and NVIDIA plus Salesforce partnerships for en...
- Perplexity Ships Hybrid AI That Keeps Sensitive Work On Apple Silicon Macs — Perplexity's Computer agent now hands sensitive steps to a locally running model on the user's Mac while keeping heavy reasoning in the cloud.
- TSMC 2027 Capex Seen Reaching $85 Billion As AI Capacity Strain Deepens — Wall Street's most bullish TSMC 2027 capex model now points to $85 billion, up from Goldman Sachs' $78B forecast, as leading-edge AI capacity stays co...
- Apple Music Will Label Songs Materially Generated Using AI — Apple Music told partners it will surface visible labels on tracks that content providers identify as materially generated using AI, extending its AI...
- Apple's Camera-Equipped AirPods Surface in Leak as Ambient AI Hardware — Code found in a macOS release candidate references an unreleased Apple wearable codenamed B790 that appears to give AirPods cameras for Siri and Apple...
- Apple Trains Its Own China LLM With Alibaba To Unlock Apple Intelligence — Reuters reports Apple has trained a proprietary China-market LLM with Alibaba's support, becoming the first foreign company approved to run its own AI...
- Sony And TSMC Plot $6.4B Image-Sensor JV In Kumamoto — Sony and TSMC are in talks to spend a combined ¥1 trillion on a Kumamoto image-sensor plant targeting 2029, feeding Apple iPhones and the next wave of...
- Apple Q3 2026: Revenue Hits Record $109.4B, iPhone $54.3B — Apple reported its strongest-ever June quarter with $109.4B in revenue, $29.8B in profit and double-digit growth across iPhone, Mac and Services as th...
- SK Hynix Emerges As Front-Runner To Co-Operate Intel's Ohio Fab — Intel is scouting operating partners for its long-delayed $32B Ohio semiconductor campus, with SK Hynix now seen as the leading candidate to co-run th...
- TSMC To Lift Chip Prices Up To 10% From 2027, HPC Orders Face Extra 10-15% Surcharge — TSMC has told Nvidia, Apple, AMD, Qualcomm and other lead customers it will raise wafer prices by 5-10% across advanced and mature nodes starting Janu...
- TSMC Plans 5–10% Chipmaking Price Hikes For 2027, HPC Premiums Up To 25% — TSMC finalized 5-10% base price hikes across advanced and mature nodes for 2027 and will charge Nvidia and other HPC customers up to 15% extra on out-...
- Apple Briefly Overtakes Nvidia As World's Most Valuable Company, Nears $5 Trillion — Apple's market cap touched $4.88 trillion during trading on 17 July, briefly ending nearly a year of Nvidia dominance atop global equity rankings as i...
- Germany's microagi Raises $55M In Largest-Ever German Seed To Deploy Factory Robots — Munich-based microagi has closed a $55M seed round led by Hummingbird — the largest seed in German history — to scale its Atlas platform for deploying...
- TSMC Sets All-Time June Revenue Record With 68% Surge on AI Chip Demand — Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company reported NT398.27 billion in June revenue, up 67.9% year-on-year, as AI accelerator demand from NVIDIA, App...
- Apple Sues OpenAI Over Trade Secret Theft in Federal Hardware Complaint — Apple has sued OpenAI in the Northern District of California, alleging that former Chief Hardware Officer Tang Tan and hundreds of ex-Apple employees...
- Broadcom and Apple Extend Custom Chip Partnership Through 2031 — Apple and Broadcom extended their custom-chip agreement through 2031, expanding ASIC collaboration and folding Broadcom silicon into Apple's in-develo...
- Apple Patches 37 Flaws as AI Tools Find WebKit Bugs — Apple's latest iOS, iPadOS and macOS updates fix 37 vulnerabilities, including WebKit flaws discovered by Anthropic and OpenAI AI security tools.