The 65-year-old Cook will turn over CEO duties to Apple’s head of hardware products, John Ternus, on September 1 while remaining involved with the Cupertino, California, company as executive chairman.
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OpenAI forges deal with iPhone designer Jony Ive to make AI-enabled devices
The $6.5 billion deal brings together the maker of ChatGPT and one of the world’s most famous product designers in a venture to create new AI-enabled devices.
The European Union hits Apple and Meta with 700 million euros in fines
European Union watchdogs fined Apple and Facebook’s parent company hundreds of millions of euros as they stepped up enforcement of the 27-nation bloc’s digital competition rules.
Apple reaches tentative contract agreement with unionized store employees in Maryland
The Apple store in the Baltimore suburb of Towson was the first in the U.S. to unionize. The contract agreement must be approved by roughly 85 employees there. A vote is scheduled for Aug. 6.
Yes, Apple’s new iPad ad is ugly and crushing, but art can’t be flattened
The newest iPad ad depicts instruments, books and art supplies flattened into Apple’s thinnest product ever. But anyone who owns and loves art in any form knows: The practicality isn’t the point.
This week’s quiz has happiness and happy dogs. You’re welcome
Last year’s most popular dog is still top, and the happiest nation is still the most contented. March is still madness and shutdowns still loom.


