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Apple’s 2026 Studio Display drops to new all-time low with $214 discount
Amazon has rolled out a major markdown on Apple’s upgraded Studio Display, offering buyers a rare chance to pick up the high-end monitor at its best price yet.
The deal applies to the Studio Display with Nano-Texture Glass and Tilt-Adjustable Stand, which is currently discounted to $1,684.88 — down $214.12 from its standard $1,899.00 retail price. To secure the full savings, shoppers must clip an on-page coupon on Amazon, with the final discounted price reflected at checkout.
This offer marks the lowest price tracked for this specific configuration, beating the previous record low by more than $100. It also represents the first significant discount on Apple’s 2026 Studio Display lineup in nearly three months.
Apple refreshed its Studio Display family earlier this year in March. The updated line features two Thunderbolt 5 ports, a 12-megapixel Center Stage camera with Desk View support, and a studio-quality six-speaker sound system with Spatial Audio. The nano-texture glass option is designed to minimize glare in bright environments while preserving high image contrast and clarity.
While Amazon has listed a few other Labor Day markdowns across the Studio Display lineup, this nano-texture tilt-adjustable variant boasts the largest savings of the bunch.
MacDailyNews Take: Because Amazon coupons on high-ticket Apple hardware tend to sell out quickly, prospective buyers should act fast before inventory or the clip-and-save offer expires.
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Major AI platforms go down in unprecedented simultaneous outage
Millions of users worldwide were left staring at blank prompt boxes and error screens on September 3, 2026, as the world’s leading artificial intelligence models — OpenAI’s ChatGPT, Anthropic’s Claude, and xAI’s Grok — suffered simultaneous global outages.
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The widespread disruption began halting traffic around mid-morning EDT, with outage tracking site Downdetector showing sharp spikes in error reports across all three platforms within minutes of each other. Users attempting to send prompts were met with failed connection warnings, severe latency, or complete internal server error messages. Secondary services and developer APIs that rely on these foundational models, including popular coding agent tools like Cursor, also confirmed downtime as upstream infrastructure collapsed.
While occasional single-platform downtime is common in tech, a near-simultaneous failure across competing models developed by separate companies — OpenAI, Anthropic, and xAI — is exceptionally rare. Early speculation points toward shared dependencies, such as regional cloud backbone providers, major domain name system (DNS) routing failures, or distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks targeting core AI infrastructure networks.
Engineering teams at OpenAI, Anthropic, and xAI acknowledged the disruptions via their respective status pages, confirming active investigations into platform instability and API timeouts.
The widespread dark-out instantly disrupted workflows across tech, media, and finance, where reliance on AI assistants for coding, research, and content generation has become deeply embedded. Social media platforms like X were quickly flooded with memes and posts from developers, students, and professionals suddenly forced to resume manual operations.
Updates are ongoing as network engineers work to isolate the root cause and restore normal service across affected clusters.
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Apple TV celebrates Australian thriller series ‘Last Seen’ at special screening in Sydney
On Wednesday, September 2, Apple TV celebrated its highly anticipated Australian thriller series “Last Seen” with a special screening event in Sydney, Australia, attended by stars Patrick Brammall, Brendan Cowell, Daniel Henshall, and Chloe Jean Lourdes, alongside executive producers Hakan Kousetta, Kris Mrksa, and Joanna Werner.
Entirely set and filmed in Victoria, Australia, “Last Seen” is a gripping six-episode drama starring Gotham Award winner Patrick Brammall. Produced by 60Forty Films, the series is adapted by acclaimed writer and executive producer Kris Mrksa from CWA John Creasey Dagger Award-winning author Ryan David Jahn’s book “The Dispatcher.” Emmy Award-nominated filmmaker Christian Schwochow directs and executive produces the series. “Last Seen” will make its global debut on Apple TV on Wednesday, September 9, with two episodes, followed by a new episode every Wednesday through October 7.
Police detective Ian Ridley’s (Brammall) life fell apart 11 years ago when his young daughter, Maggie, disappeared without a trace. Now working as a police dispatcher, the only thing that has kept him going is his implacable refusal to accept that she might be gone forever. When he receives a distress call from a teenage girl he is certain is Maggie, he will stop at nothing to find her and reunite his broken family, whatever the cost.
In addition to Brammall (“Colin from Accounts,” “The Devil Wears Prada 2,” “Evil”), the series also stars Maxine Peake (“Say Nothing,” “Black Mirror”), Brendan Cowell (“Dune: Prophecy,” “Plum”), Daniel Henshall (“Mickey 17,” “How to Make Gravy”), Zahra Newman (“Thirteen Lives,” “Addition”), Jessica Wren (“Mr. Inbetween,” “Devil’s Playground”), Tobias Muhafidin (“Bali 2002”) and introduces Chloe Jean Lourdes.
The series is executive produced by Jamie Laurenson and Hakan Kousetta at 60Forty Films (“Hijack,” “Slow Horses,” “Down Cemetery Road”), with executive producers Schwochow (“The Crown,” “Bad Banks,” “Munich: The Edge of War”), Mrksa (“Requiem,” “No Escape,” “The Murders at White House Farm”) and Joanna Werner (“The Newsreader,” “Riot,” “Clickbait”).
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iPhone 18 Pro A20 chip leak points to 7 GPU cores, faster memory, and enhanced caching
An alleged circuit and solder-joint diagram for Apple’s upcoming A20 Pro chip offers a detailed look at the internal architecture expected to power the iPhone 18 Pro, iPhone 18 Pro Max, and Apple’s rumored first foldable iPhone.
The leak comes from Chinese social media network Weibo, where tech user “Fried White Rice” reconstructed the processor’s layout by mapping solder ball positions and overlaying them with die-level images. While analyzing chip layouts via solder points is indirect and far from an exact science, the findings highlight a series of plausible, performance-focused internal upgrades.
Key Architectural Highlights
• 7-Core GPU (Up from 6 Cores): The diagram indicates a shift from the 6-core graphics configuration found on the A19 Pro to a 7-core design on the A20 Pro—a roughly 16% increase in GPU cores.
• Wider Memory Interface (96-bit Bus): The layout suggests a upgrade to a 96-bit memory interface for LPDDR5x RAM, expanding beyond the 64-bit interface used in the previous generation. This 50% widening of the memory bus would significantly boost overall memory bandwidth, helping feed graphics-heavy games and onboard machine learning models.
• Expanded L2 Efficiency Cache: While the CPU retains its standard configuration—two performance cores paired with four efficiency cores—the shared L2 cache for the four efficiency cores reportedly increases from 6MB to 8MB. The two performance cores appear to keep their existing 16MB L2 cache.
• Performance Expectations: Coupled with recent supply chain rumors, the A20 Pro is projected to deliver up to 18% faster overall speeds and 30% better power efficiency compared to its predecessor.
Outlook and Expected Announcement
Beyond processing improvements, the A20 Pro is expected to accommodate a revamped Image Signal Processor (ISP) and Neural Engine.
MacDailyNews Take: With Apple anticipated to unveil the iPhone 18 Pro lineup shortly, these architectural changes point toward a heavy emphasis on graphics performance, local Apple Intelligence processing, and memory-intensive workflows. However, as with all pre-launch board-level leaks, these architectural deductions remain unconfirmed until Apple officially takes the stage.
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Apple Original Films debuts teaser trailer for new film ‘Being Heumann’
Apple Original Films this week unveiled the teaser trailer and key art for “Being Heumann,” a powerful new feature film that chronicles the “mother of the disability rights movement,” Judy Heumann, as she leads a group of young adults who come together to find their collective voice in a fight against discrimination. The film marks the second collaboration for Apple Original Films and writer/director Siân Heder, who directed the multi-Academy Award-winning film “CODA,” which made history as the first film with a predominantly deaf cast to receive the Best Picture honor. “Being Heumann” will debut in select theaters November 6, 2026 and premiere globally on Apple TV Friday, November 13, 2026.
The teaser trailer has been unveiled just ahead of the premiere of “Being Heumann” as the opening film of the Toronto International Film Festival, set to take place on September 10.
They wouldn’t take Judy Heumann’s phone calls, so she took their building. In 1977, a young disabled woman (Ruth Madeley) and a scrappy coalition of outsiders decide they’ve had enough. What begins as one impulsive act becomes the longest occupation of a federal building in American history, as hundreds spontaneously seize government offices and refuse to leave until the bureaucrat in their way (Mark Ruffalo) takes action. Bringing rebellion in all its forms to the hallowed halls, a movement’s accidental leaders struggle to find their path forward where none has ever been paved for them. Directed by Academy Award winner Heder and based on true events, “Being Heumann” is the revolutionary, irreverent and deeply human story of the least likely people trying to pull off the impossible and change the lives of millions.
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Apple CEO Ternus has a direct incentive to beat the market: How Apple structured his equity award
Apple’s board has structured incoming CEO John Ternus’ first full-year compensation so that the bulk of his wealth depends on whether the company’s stock outperforms other members of the S&P 500. Ternus will receive a $3 million base salary and a targeted annual equity award of $55 million beginning in fiscal 2027. Three-quarters of that award consists of performance-based restricted stock units that vest according to Apple’s total shareholder return relative to the rest of the index. The remaining 25 percent vests on a simple time schedule — 12.5 percent every six months over four years.
The design is straightforward: Ternus has a direct financial incentive to deliver returns that beat the broader large-cap market and, by extension, to reward shareholders. Apple also granted him a smaller, prorated restricted-stock award of $2.5 million for the few weeks he served as CEO in fiscal 2026. Cook, now executive chairman, received a reduced $2 million salary and a $45 million target equity award that is less heavily weighted toward relative performance.
The structure continues Apple’s long-standing practice of linking a large share of executive pay to multi-year stock results rather than short-term operational metrics. Because the performance hurdle is measured against S&P 500 peers rather than an absolute stock-price target, Ternus cannot simply ride a rising market; Apple must outperform. That alignment is meant to keep management focused on capital allocation, product execution, and capital-return decisions that actually move the needle versus the index.
Whether that same incentive could eventually support another stock split is an open question. Apple last split its shares 4-for-1 in 2020 when the stock price had climbed high enough that some retail investors found individual shares cumbersome. A split does not change the company’s market value or the economic substance of Ternus’ award, but it can improve liquidity, broaden the shareholder base, and make the stock more accessible to index funds and individual buyers. If the board and Ternus conclude that a more widely held, more liquid stock would help Apple’s relative total-shareholder-return ranking over the multi-year vesting window, a split could become one of several tools they consider. Nothing in the current filing points to an imminent split, and any such decision would still rest with the board. The pay package simply makes clear that Ternus’ personal payoff will be larger if Apple’s stock does better than its S&P 500 neighbors — regardless of how that outperformance is achieved.
MacDailyNews Take: Apple’s CEO compensation structure is largely the same; the differences are in size and in what has been disclosed so far.
Cook’s last full-year CEO package (fiscal 2025) used the same architecture Apple is now using for Ternus: $3 million salary, equity that is 75% performance-based and 25% time-based, and performance vesting tied to Apple’s total shareholder return versus other S&P 500 companies.
That 75/25 mix and the relative-TSR test are unchanged for Ternus’ $55 million fiscal 2027 equity award.
Component Cook as CEO (FY2025) Ternus as CEO (FY2027 target) Base salary $3 million $3 million Target equity $50 million $55 million Equity mix 75% performance / 25% time 75% performance / 25% time Performance metric TSR vs S&P 500 TSR vs S&P 500 Target cash bonus $6 million (200% of salary) Not yet disclosed Target total (disclosed) $59 million ~$58 million (salary + equity only) Reported/realized total $74.3 million N/A yetCook’s reported 2025 total of about $74.3 million was higher than his $59 million target because the cash bonus paid out at $12 million (twice target) and because the accounting value of the stock awards was $57.5 million rather than the $50 million target.
Ternus’ disclosed package is slightly richer on equity ($55 million vs $50 million) and silent so far on an annual cash bonus.
SEC filings omit details regarding an annual cash bonus program for Ternus. If Apple awards him a standard executive annual cash bonus structure matching Cook’s $6 million target, his full target will land around $64 million (above Cook’s $59 million target). If no cash bonus is awarded, his disclosed baseline target ($58 million) sits slightly below Cook’s total $59 million target.
The package does not represent a new philosophy. Apple kept the same pay architecture, the same relative-performance test, and the same salary. The material changes are modest: a $5 million larger equity target for Ternus, an undisclosed cash-bonus question, and the absence (so far) of the perks and above-target cash that inflated Cook’s reported 2025 total. Alignment with shareholders via beating the S&P 500 is the same idea under which Cook already lived.
MacDailyNews Take: Bottom line: It’s good news for Apple shareholders that the CEO is rewarded for AAPL outperforming the broader market.
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Morgan Stanley: Foldable iPhone could add $14 billion to Apple’s December quarter
Apple’s first foldable iPhone could contribute about $14 billion in revenue in the December quarter, according to Morgan Stanley, which called next week’s product event the company’s most consequential since the iPhone X.
Analyst Erik Woodring described the device as the biggest iPhone form-factor change since 2017. The bank expects strong early demand, but tight supply, with 7 million to 8 million units built in the second half of 2026 and as many as 20 million over the first product cycle. Shipments are expected to start in October or early November.
Morgan Stanley also framed the launch as a test of Apple’s pricing power. Rising NAND and DRAM costs are expected to push Pro models more than $200 higher year over year. The key upgrade on the iPhone 18 Pro is likely TSMC’s 2-nanometer process, aimed at stronger on-device AI performance. The bank said Apple appears more focused on securing components than finding buyers, though memory supply could still limit near-term production.
The September 9th event will also mark a leadership shift. New CEO John Ternus is expected to introduce the foldable — rumored as iPhone Fold or Ultra — alongside what Morgan Stanley called the broadest like-for-like iPhone price increases in company history. Woodring kept an Overweight rating and a $360 price target, noting Apple stock often outperforms into launch events, but can fade on the day itself. Sustained gains, he said, will depend on later estimate revisions.
Other analysts have put the foldable at roughly $2,300 to $2,500. Independent checks from Ming-Chi Kuo have pointed to similarly constrained early volumes and the possibility of weeks-long wait times.
MacDailyNews Take: We’ll see how supply holds up when pre-orders beign – likely within a minute or two. If you want one of the first foldable iPhones, you’ll need to pre-order within the first minutes!
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Apple’s foldable iPhone sets the standard that Google, Oppo, and Vivo plan to follow next year
Even before its unveiling, Apple’s first foldable iPhone has already become the design benchmark the rest of the industry is racing to copy. Google, Oppo and Vivo are now preparing to adopt the same dual ultra-thin glass (UTG) structure Apple pioneered, TheElec reports citing industry sources.
The dual-UTG approach places one sheet of ultra-thin glass above the OLED panel as the cover window and a second sheet beneath it for structural support. The upper layer, thinned to tens of micrometers, protects the display from impacts and scratches while still folding repeatedly. The lower layer spreads stress around the hinge and stiffens the panel from below. Together, the two glass layers give manufacturers tighter control over rigidity and folding stress, which helps reduce the crease that has long defined cheaper foldables.
Apple chose this construction as a late entrant precisely because it wanted to minimize crease visibility and raise overall quality rather than simply match existing products. That decision is now being treated as the new premium standard. Samsung Display is already building dual-UTG OLED prototypes to the specifications of Google, Oppo, and Vivo, working with partner Dowoo Insys on both the upper and lower glass layers. Mass production is targeted for the companies’ 2027 launches.
Samsung’s own Galaxy Z Fold8 series takes a different route: a single UTG layer on top plus a titanium alloy film and reinforced titanium plate underneath. That architecture is simpler and cheaper to manufacture at scale. Apple’s rivals, however, have decided the extra glass is worth the cost. Oppo and Vivo in particular have made crease reduction and durability central selling points for their Find N and X Fold lines. Google is expected to follow the same path with its next Pixel Fold.
The three companies all sell book-style foldables — the Pixel Fold series, Find N series, and X Fold series. Their current flagships are the Pixel 11 Pro Fold, Find N6 and X Fold6. New models using dual UTG are slated for early 2027 at Oppo, the first half of the year at Vivo, and the second half at Google.
For the UTG supply chain the shift is unambiguously good news. Even if overall foldable shipments stay flat, each device will now consume two sheets of glass instead of one. Apple’s decision to lead with dual UTG did not just improve its own product; it doubled the material content the rest of the market is now lining up to use.
MacDailyNews Take: Apple leads. All others follow. As usual.
As with fingerprint and facial recognition, when Apple debuts a foldable iPhone, then foldable smartphones will have been done right. – MacDailyNews, January 17, 2019
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Apple TV unveils first look at season two of animated series ‘The Sisters Grimm’
Today, Apple TV revealed a first look and premiere date for the highly anticipated second season of “The Sisters Grimm,” premiering globally on Friday, October 2nd. Based on Michael Buckley’s New York Times bestselling book series, “The Sisters Grimm” is a journey of adventure and heart about sleuth-solving sisters descended from the Brothers Grimm who, while very different, make a pretty great team. Season one earned a 100 percent critics score on Rotten Tomatoes.
In season two, one year after their parents’ mysterious disappearance, sisters Sabrina and Daphne Grimm continue uncovering the secrets of Ferryport Landing, where fairy tales and fairy tale creatures are real, as they face new adventures and mysteries.
The series is led by a stellar voice cast, including Ariel Winter (“Modern Family”) as Sabrina, Leah Newman as Daphne, Laraine Newman (“Saturday Night Live”) as Relda, Abubakar Salim (“Raised by Wolves”) as Charming, Billy Harris (“Ted Lasso”) as Puck and Harry Trevaldwyn (“How to Train Your Dragon”) as Mirror.
“The Sisters Grimm” is developed by Emmy Award nominee Amy Higgins (“Star vs. the Forces of Evil”), who serves as showrunner, and Emmy Award nominee Erica Rothschild (“Sofia the First”). Emmy Award-winning studio Titmouse (“Duck & Goose,” “Harriet the Spy,” “Frog and Toad”) produces the animation. The six-episode series is executive produced by Higgins, Buckley (“Robotomy”), Emmy Award winner Elliot Blake (“Re\Visioned: Tomb Raider”), Emmy Award winner Philip Alberstat (“The Incredible Mrs. Ritchie”), Steven Amato (“27 Mins”) and Theresa Park (“Roar,” “Expats”) alongside Titmouse’s Chris Prynoski (“The Legend of Vox Machina”), Shannon Prynoski (“Scavengers Reign”), Ben Kalina (“Big Mouth”) and Antonio Canobbio (“Digman!”). Sage Cotugno serves as supervising director.
The exciting slate of recent offerings for kids and families on Apple TV includes “My Brother the Minotaur,” from Academy Award-nominated animation studio Cartoon Saloon and award-winning children’s media company Dog Ears; “Wonder Pets: In the City,” from Emmy Award winner Jennifer Oxley and produced by Nickelodeon Animation; animated adventure trilogy “WondLa,” based on Tony DiTerlizzi’s New York Times bestselling book series “The Search for WondLa”; “Yo Gabba GabbaLand!,” inspired by the hit, Emmy Award-nominated cultural phenomenon “Yo Gabba Gabba!”; season two of Emmy Award-winning “Shape Island,” based on the internationally bestselling picture books by Mac Barnett and Jon Klassen; “Goldie,” inspired by Emily Brundige’s award-winning 2019 short film of the same name; Television Critics Association Award-winning “Snoopy Presents: A Summer Musical”; “Snoopy Presents: There’s No Place Like Home, Snoopy”; animated series “Camp Snoopy”; and many more.
Award-winning all-ages offerings now streaming globally on Apple TV include the BAFTA Award and Emmy Award-winning live-action animated hybrid special “The Velveteen Rabbit”; BAFTA Award and Humanitas Prize-winning “El Deafo”; BAFTA Award-winning “Lovely Little Farm”; DreamWorks Animation’s music-driven animated comedy “BE@RBRICK”; “Duck & Goose”; “Get Rolling With Otis”; Spin Master Entertainment’s “Sago Mini Friends”; Emmy Award-winning “Frog and Toad,” based on the Caldecott and Newbery Honor-winning books; Annie Award-nominated “Not a Box”; GLAAD Media Award-nominated “Pinecone & Pony”; The Jim Henson Company’s Emmy Award-winning “Fraggle Rock: Back to the Rock,” “Harriet the Spy” and “Slumberkins”; Sesame Workshop’s “Helpsters”; Scholastic’s “Puppy Place”; Joseph Gordon-Levitt, HITRECORD and Bento Box Entertainment’s “Wolfboy and the Everything Factory”; and Jack McBrayer and Angela C. Santomero’s Emmy Award-nominated “Hello, Jack! The Kindness Show.”
Live-action offerings include “Me,” an elevated, cinematic coming-of-age story from Barry L. Levy; Bonnie Hunt’s DGA Award and WGA Award-nominated “Amber Brown”; DGA Award-winning “Best Foot Forward”; “Surfside Girls”; WGA Award-winning “Life by Ella”; Sesame Workshop and Sinking Ship’s Emmy Award-winning “Ghostwriter”; and Emmy Award and Environmental Media Association Award-winning “Jane.” The collection also features “Here We Are: Notes for Living on Planet Earth,” the Emmy Award-winning television event based on the New York Times bestselling book and TIME Best Book of the Year by Oliver Jeffers.
Apple TV offers premium, compelling drama and comedy series, feature films, groundbreaking documentaries, and kids and family entertainment, and is available to watch across all of a user’s favorite screens. After its launch on November 1, 2019, Apple TV became the first all-original streaming service to launch around the world, and has premiered more original hits and received more award recognitions faster than any other streaming service in its debut. To date, Apple Original films, documentaries and series have been honored with 859 wins and 3,816 award nominations and counting including multi-Emmy Award-winning and history-making comedies “The Studio” and “Ted Lasso,” global cultural phenomenon “Severance,” Apple’s most-viewed drama “Pluribus,” Academy Award Best Picture winner “CODA” and Academy Award winner “F1,” the highest-grossing sports feature of all time.
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Amazon cuts prices on new M6 and M5 Pro Mac mini pre-orders
Amazon is offering cash discounts on Apple’s just-announced 2026 Mac mini lineup, just weeks before the machines ship on September 22nd.
The retailer has marked down two M6 configurations and one M5 Pro model for pre-order:
• M6 Mac mini with 16GB unified memory and 256GB SSD: $879.99, down from $899 ($19 off)
• M6 Mac mini with 16GB unified memory and 512GB SSD: $1,069.99, down from $1,099 ($29 off)
• M5 Pro Mac mini with 24GB unified memory and 512GB SSD: $1,669.99 ($29 off)
These are the first advertised dollar-off pre-order deals on the new Mac mini at Amazon.
Apple ‘s new M6 Mac mini can deliver up to 40% faster CPU performance, up to 4× faster AI performance, up to 2× faster graphics, and up to 2× faster storage versus the prior-generation M4 model it used for comparison (a 10-core M4 with 32GB memory and 2TB storage). Those figures come from Apple and apply to specific workloads, not every task.
Pre-order pricing can change, and stock or delivery dates may vary by configuration. If you are shopping specifically for an Amazon Mac mini deal, those three SKUs are the ones currently listed below Apple’s starting prices.
MacDailyNews Take: get ’em while they last here!
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Apple Original Films celebrates the world premiere of ‘Mayday,’ starring Ryan Reynolds and Kenneth Branagh
This evening at AMC Lincoln Square in New York City, Apple Original Films hosted the world premiere for its highly anticipated buddy action comedy “Mayday.” Led by Ryan Reynolds and Kenneth Branagh, and hailing from directors, writers and producers John Francis Daley and Jonathan Goldstein, “Mayday” will make its global debut on Apple TV on Friday, September 4, 2026.
Attendees at the world premiere event included star and executive producer Ryan Reynolds and stars Kenneth Branagh, Maria Bakalova, Marcin Dorocinski, Louis Cancelmi and Wendy Crewson, as well as directors, producers and writers John Francis Daley and Jonathan Goldstein, producers Ashley Fox and Johnny Pariseau, executive producer John G. Scotti and more. Additional attendees included cinematographer Barry Peterson, editor Jamie Gross, costume designer Debra McGuire, costume designer and composter Colin Stetson and more.
Kenneth Branagh and Maria Bakalova attend the world premiere of the upcoming Apple Original Film “Mayday” at AMC Lincoln Square on September 1, 2026 in New York City. “Mayday” premieres globally on Apple TV on September 4, 2026.
Reynolds and Branagh team up in “Mayday,” a genre-bending, action-packed buddy comedy that flips the spy thriller on its head. When hotshot U.S. Navy pilot Lieutenant Troy “Assassin” Kelly (Reynolds) is sent on a top-secret mission into Russian territory at the height of the Cold War, the operation implodes, leaving him stranded behind enemy lines. Discovered by Nikolai Ustinov (Branagh), a gruff ex-KGB agent with a penchant for American culture, Troy thinks he’s toast — but could an unlikely alliance between the two lead to Troy’s rescue and a bond neither saw coming?
An Apple Original Film hailing from Skydance Media, “Mayday” is co-directed, written and produced by Daley and Goldstein. The film is produced by Skydance’s David Ellison, Dana Goldberg, and Don Granger, and Maximum Effort’s Ashley Fox and Johnny Pariseau. Executive producers are Maximum Effort’s Reynolds and George Dewey, alongside John G. Scotti.
Apple TV offers premium, compelling drama and comedy series, feature films, groundbreaking documentaries, and kids and family entertainment, and is available to watch across all of a user’s favorite screens. After its launch on November 1, 2019, Apple TV became the first all-original streaming service to launch around the world, and has premiered more original hits and received more award recognitions faster than any other streaming service in its debut. To date, Apple Original films, documentaries and series have been honored with 880 wins and 3,826 award nominations and counting including multi-Emmy Award-winning and history-making comedies “The Studio” and “Ted Lasso,” global cultural phenomenon “Severance,” Apple’s most-viewed drama “Pluribus,” Academy Award Best Picture winner “CODA” and Academy Award winner “F1,” the highest-grossing sports feature of all time.
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Apple sets $58 million pay target for new CEO John Ternus, $47 Million for Cook as Executive Chairman
Apple has disclosed compensation targets for its new leadership team, according to Bloomberg News’ Mark Gurman, after an SEC filing on John Ternus’s first day as chief executive.
Apple said new CEO John Ternus will have a fiscal 2027 compensation package worth about $58 million, while Tim Cook’s package as executive chairman is targeted at about $47 million. The company disclosed the figures in a Securities and Exchange Commission filing on Tuesday, Sept. 1, 2026 — Ternus’s first day in the role.
Ternus will receive a $3 million annual base salary and a stock grant with a target value of $55 million for fiscal 2027. About 75% of that equity award will be performance-based restricted stock units that vest based on Apple’s total shareholder return relative to other S&P 500 companies. The remaining 25% will be time-based RSUs that vest semiannually in equal 12.5% installments over four years.
Apple also granted Ternus a one-time, prorated RSU award with a target value of about $2.5 million for his partial-year service as CEO in fiscal 2026, which ends in September.
Cook, 65, is stepping down after a 15-year run as CEO. In his new role as executive chairman, his annual salary will fall to $2 million from $3 million, and the target value of his fiscal 2027 equity award is $45 million. Half of Cook’s equity will be performance-based and half time-based. His total compensation as CEO in 2025 was $74.3 million.
The target figures do not include performance-based cash bonuses, so the amounts actually paid in fiscal 2027 could differ. Ternus, 51, previously led Apple’s hardware engineering organization after 25 years at the company. Under Cook, Apple’s stock rose more than 2,200%.
MacDailyNews Take: Cook is either being wildly overpaid as Executive Chairman or he’s planning to be very involved, neither of which are good news unless Ternus has the authority to overrule Cook’s risk-averse instincts. Apple can afford to overpay executive figureheads for, basically, forever, but it cannot afford to operate as Tim Cook’s Apple any longer.
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Apple Maps now displays ‘Lake America’ after President Trump’s executive order
Apple has updated Apple Maps so that U.S. users see Lake Ontario labeled as Lake America, matching a change recorded in the U.S. Geographic Names Information System after President Donald Trump signed an executive order renaming the lake for federal use.
The update appeared on the web version of Apple Maps on Tuesday and is rolling out more broadly. Apple said U.S. users will see “Lake America,” users in Canada will continue to see Lake Ontario, and users elsewhere will see both names. That is the same approach Apple used after the Gulf of Mexico was renamed the Gulf of America on U.S. maps.
Google Maps renamed Lake Ontario to Lake America in late August
Google Maps made a similar change for U.S. users over the weekend. Both companies have pointed to official U.S. geographic naming records as the basis for what American users see.
Lake Ontario is one of the five Great Lakes. About 52 percent of its surface area lies in Canada, with the rest in New York. Trump’s order applies to U.S. federal usage and does not require Canada or international bodies to adopt the new name.
The lake rename follows last year’s Gulf of America change, which Apple and Google also reflected for U.S. users. Interior Secretary Doug Burgum said the president contacted Apple directly about aligning maps with the new official U.S. name.
Apple confirmed the Maps update tracks the Geographic Names Information System listing. For travelers, boaters, and anyone using Apple Maps in the United States, the lake now appears under the name adopted in U.S. federal records.
MacDailyNews Take: President Trump’s full Executive Order, “Honoring The American History Of The Great Lakes And Renaming Lake Ontario As Lake America,” can be read here.
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Former Apple CFO Luca Maestri relinquishes corporate services duties as Ternus era begins
Apple is seeing another high-profile executive from the Tim Cook era scale back his remaining responsibilities, as former chief financial officer Luca Maestri has dropped his role overseeing corporate services.
Maestri, who handed the CFO title to Kevan Parekh at the end of 2024, had stayed on as a vice president running corporate services. That group covered information systems and technology, information security, and corporate real estate. According to Bloomberg News‘ Mark Gurman, Maestri stepped away from those duties in recent weeks. He remains on Apple’s payroll, but now has no operational responsibilities beyond teaching a class at Apple University. He visits the office about once a week and is winding down toward retirement.
The corporate services portfolio has shifted to current CFO Kevan Parekh. Maestri previously reported to Cook and does not report to new CEO John Ternus, who took over this week. Cook often kept departing senior leaders in reduced roles; it is unclear whether Ternus will follow the same practice.
Maestri’s earlier tenure as CFO also drew scrutiny over Apple’s artificial-intelligence pace. Reports have said that in 2023, after Cook approved a plan to roughly double the company’s GPU budget for AI work, Maestri reduced the increase to less than half of what had been requested and pushed the team to extract more efficiency from existing chips. Critics have argued that the more conservative spending left Apple with fewer modern accelerators than rivals and contributed to the company falling behind in the generative-AI race.
Apple has since ramped up AI investment under its Apple Intelligence initiative and a leadership transition that puts greater emphasis on the technology. Maestri’s latest step back marks one more change as Ternus begins reshaping the company’s senior ranks.
MacDailyNews Take: Hopefully Ternus will drop Cook’s milquetoast habit of keeping longtime executives known for poor, costly decisions on the payroll in low-responsibility jobs. Cut ’em loose and focus in the future, John!
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Apple TV adds more classic films – here’s the full list
Apple TV is once again expanding beyond its original programming with a new batch of licensed Hollywood movies that subscribers can stream at no extra cost. Fifteen titles joined the service on September 1, 2026, following a similar surprise drop in August.
The latest additions mix crowd-pleasers and prestige films. Among the comedies and crowd-pleasers are Ferris Bueller’s Day Off, School of Rock, Superbad, Easy A, Mamma Mia! The Movie, and Definitely, Maybe. More dramatic and awards-adjacent titles include The Social Network, Her, The Wolf of Wall Street, Zero Dark Thirty, Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World, Troy, A League of Their Own, War of the Worlds, and The Informant!.
Here is the full list of newly added movies, in alphabetical order:
• A League of Their Own
• Definitely, Maybe
• Easy A
• Ferris Bueller’s Day Off
• Her
• Mamma Mia! The Movie
• Master and Commander
• School of Rock
• Superbad
• The Informant!
• The Social Network
• The Wolf of Wall Street
• Troy
• War of the Worlds
• Zero Dark Thirty
Apple TV has historically leaned on originals such as Ted Lasso, Severance, and Shrinking. Licensed catalog titles were rare. Last month’s collection — films such as E.T., The Bourne Identity, The Sixth Sense, and A Beautiful Mind —s howed a shift. Most of those titles have already rotated off the free-with-subscription tier, though a few holdovers remain. The new September slate is expected to follow the same pattern: available for a limited window, then back to rental or purchase pricing.
Availability is strongest in the United States. Other regions may see a shorter list or none of the titles at all. In the Apple TV app, the films appear under a “Great Movies Available Now on Apple” row on the Home tab. If the app asks you to rent or buy, you are looking at the store catalog rather than the included-with-subscription collection.
Apple TV remains $14.99 a month in the U.S., or discounted as part of an Apple One bundle. New subscribers can still start with a free trial. Because these licensed windows tend to be short, anyone who wants to catch The Social Network, Ferris Bueller’s Day Off, or The Wolf of Wall Street on the service should start soon. September also brings new Apple original films and series, so the catalog is growing on both the licensed and original sides at once.
MacDailyNews Take: Apple TV is available on the Apple TV app in over 100 countries and regions, on over 1 billion screens, including iPhone, iPad, Apple TV 4K, Apple Vision Pro, Mac, popular smart TVs from Samsung, LG, Sony, VIZIO, TCL and others, Roku and Amazon Fire TV devices, Chromecast with Google TV, PlayStation and Xbox gaming consoles, and at tv.apple.com, for $12.99 per month with a seven-day free trial for new subscribers. For a limited time, customers who purchase and activate a new iPhone, iPad, Apple TV 4K or Mac can enjoy three months of Apple TV for free.
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Norman Reedus joins James Marsden in Apple TV action thriller series ‘Disavowed’
Norman Reedus is joining the series-regular cast of Apple TV’s upcoming action thriller “Disavowed.”
The project, created by Art Marcum and Matt Holloway (Iron Man, Uncharted), stars James Marsden as legendary CIA case officer Brad Griffin. Griffin is abruptly fired in the middle of a global hunt for an elusive assassin who killed his colleague. Disgraced and cut off from the intelligence world, he decides to pursue the $15 million federal bounty on the assassin’s head. Reedus’ character has not been revealed.
The series comes from Apple Studios. Marcum and Holloway executive produce alongside Tom Spezialy, Michelle MacLaren, Rebecca Hobbs, and Marsden. Blue Marble Pictures (Pachinko) produces, with Theresa Kang and Caroline Garity also serving as executive producers. MacLaren (The Morning Show, Breaking Bad) will direct the first two episodes and executive produce with Hobbs under her overall deal with Apple TV.
Reedus is best known for playing Daryl Dixon across 11 seasons of AMC’s The Walking Dead and the spinoff The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon, which is set to conclude after its upcoming fourth season. He also starred as Murphy MacManus in The Boondock Saints and its sequel, and is in pre-production on a third installment as star and executive producer. Recent credits include Takashi Miike’s untitled Kyoto project; he next appears in Mark Heyman’s Pendulum.
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Perplexity brings hybrid compute to Mac, keeping sensitive AI work on device
Perplexity has launched Hybrid Compute for its Computer agent on Apple Silicon Macs, a system that splits a single task between frontier models in the cloud and compact models running locally so confidential files and personal data never have to leave the machine.
The idea is simple and, if it holds up in daily use, important: Computer still starts work in the cloud, where large models handle research, planning, and long-horizon reasoning. When a local classifier spots sensitive information — names, emails, account numbers, privileged files — the user is prompted to keep that slice of the job on the Mac, mask the details, or send it to the cloud anyway. Cloud and local pieces stay in the same workflow. The user does not have to restart the task or shuttle files between tools.
At launch, local options include Gemma 4 E4B, Qwen3.6 35B-A3B, and a Perplexity post-trained Qwen variant. Users pick the cloud orchestrator; Perplexity selects helper frontier models. Hybrid Compute is available today to Pro, Max, and Enterprise subscribers in the Perplexity Mac app on Apple silicon running macOS 15 or later, with 24GB of unified memory as the minimum and 32GB recommended. Setup is a one-click model download rather than a custom local-runtime stack.
The Mac does not have to be the device that starts the job. A prompt from iPhone or iPad can still kick off a session; if the Mac is on and running Perplexity, sensitive steps can execute there against local files and apps. That makes a always-on Mac mini a plausible private compute node for people who work from a phone most of the day.
Perplexity has been building toward this split for months. In June it described hybrid agentic inference as a way to optimize for accuracy, privacy, and token cost at once: keep financial records, health information, and personal files local; send only the work that truly needs a frontier model to the server. Portable Computer, a more local-first variant, already existed for users who want most of the stack on device and only escalate with permission. Hybrid Compute approaches the same problem from the other direction — cloud-first orchestration with an on-device privacy gate.
That gate is the linchpin. An on-device PII classifier, which Perplexity says it has open-sourced and trained with its Secure Intelligence Institute, inspects content before anything is transmitted. Credentials, payment numbers, and government IDs get the strictest treatment. For enterprises, admins can set organization-wide rules for what must stay local, what may be masked, and what requires approval, plus audit when data leaves a device. That is the pitch for law, finance, healthcare, and other regulated shops that want agentic tools without dumping client records into someone else’s cluster.
Competitors are chasing the same mix of on-device privacy and cloud intelligence. Perplexity’s claim is that it can start a job in the cloud, peel off the confidential pieces mid-task, and finish without losing context. For Mac users sitting on 24GB-plus Apple silicon — and for the new M5/M6 machines Apple just put on the table — that is now a shipping product rather than a Computex slide.
MacDailyNews Take: The use cases Perplexity and early reviewers walk through are familiar: an attorney updating a brief with client files that stay on the Mac while case-law research runs in the cloud; an analyst rebuilding a confidential model against public comps; a small-business owner starting pricing research from a phone while private price lists never leave the desktop. In each case the agent is only as useful as the data it can touch. Hybrid Compute is an attempt to let it touch private data without treating the cloud as the default home for that data.
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Apple CEO John Ternus will take the stage on September 9th, but a full live Jobs-style keynote is unlikely
Apple’s new CEO is expected to walk onto the Steve Jobs Theater floor eight days into the job. That is not the same thing as bringing back the old live keynote.
John Ternus officially became Apple’s CEO today. His first public test arrives almost immediately: the company’s “Surprise and shine” event on Wednesday, September 9, at 10 a.m. Pacific, live-streamed from Apple Park.
Fans have been asking the obvious question. After years of polished, pre-taped presentations, will Ternus restore the live, in-the-room keynote that defined Steve Jobs and, for a long stretch, Tim Cook?
The short answer: he is expected on stage. The long answer is that Apple has not announced a return to a fully live show.
Ternus has already appeared in product videos and on stage as hardware chief. That experience matters now that he is the face of the company.
What Apple has actually confirmed
Apple has confirmed the date, the venue, and the livestream. It has not confirmed the format of the presentation itself. Invitations went out with the tagline “Surprise and shine.” They name no presenter and no product.
Recent Apple events have followed a hybrid script: a small invited crowd at the Steve Jobs Theater, executives appearing in person for greetings, then a pre-recorded keynote on the big screen. Coverage of this year’s event still describes that same mix. Trusted Reviews put it plainly: Apple is expected to combine an in-person gathering with a prerecorded presentation, as it has in recent launches.
Why people think Ternus will still walk out
That hybrid format still leaves room for a live moment, and almost everyone covering the company expects Ternus to take it.
CNBC’s Apple reporters said investors and longtime watchers expect him on stage on September 9. Skipping it, they argued, would raise questions he does not want in his first month. The theater is small. The stream is not. Tens of millions of people watch these events. This is how a new CEO introduces himself.
That tracks with how Apple used WWDC in June. Cook hosted what was widely treated as his last major keynote as CEO. Ternus was on campus, mingling with attendees, and did not appear in the taped presentation. Hardware was not the story that day. It will be on September 9.
Why a full live return is a bigger leap than it sounds
Apple did not abandon live keynotes on a whim. The taped format gives the company control over demos, lighting, product shots, and timing. A foldable iPhone, if it arrives as expected, is a hinge-and-glass product. That is exactly the kind of device companies prefer to show in a controlled video rather than risk a live snag in front of the world.
A live keynote also changes the job. Jobs treated the stage as theater. Cook simply wasn’t good at it. Ternus is an engineer who spent 25 years inside hardware, not a showman by reputation. Appearing in person to open and close the event is a natural first step. Performing an hour of unrehearsed product theater is a different bet.W
What September 9 is actually for
The event is already loaded even without a format change. It is Ternus’s first major launch as CEO. It is expected to include iPhone 18 Pro models and, according to a wide range of reports, Apple’s first foldable iPhone. A rebuilt Siri is also in the mix after the WWDC preview. The standard iPhone 18 is widely expected to slip later, which would make this a premium-heavy fall show rather than the usual full-lineup dump.
The realistic headline for next week
Ternus will almost certainly step onto the floor of the Steve Jobs Theater. He will greet the room. He will be the person associated with whatever Apple unveils. It won;t be, on current evidence, a return to a live keynote.
MacDailyNews Take: From what we’ve already seen of Ternus on-stage, he could handle it:
If Apple flips back to the live format at the last minute, that will be news — and we’d love to see it, even if it risks mistakes, because it would be an important statement.
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Apple stock soars as John Ternus becomes CEO
John Ternus officially became chief executive of Apple on Tuesday, September 1, 2026, succeeding Tim Cook after a 15-year run of iterating Steve Jobs-era products that turned the company into one of the world’s most valuable businesses.
Ternus, previously senior vice president of hardware engineering, takes over a company with a market capitalization around $4.6 trillion. Apple shares, which closed Monday at $316.85, traded higher during Tuesday’s session, showing gains of roughly 2.5% (+$8.00, +2.52% as of 10:59:06 AM EDT) as investors digested the handoff and looked ahead to the fall product cycle.
The transition was announced in April and approved unanimously by the board. Cook becomes executive chairman and will remain involved, particularly on government relations and Apple’s ties with the United States and China. Ternus also joins the board.
Ternus, 51, joined Apple’s product design team in 2001 after studying mechanical engineering at the University of Pennsylvania and a brief stint designing virtual-reality hardware. He rose through hardware engineering, becoming a vice president in 2013 and SVP in 2021. He oversaw work on iPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple Watch, AirPods, and Vision Pro, and played a central role in Apple’s shift to its own silicon.
Cook praised him as having “the mind of an engineer, the soul of an innovator, and the heart to lead with integrity and with honor.” Ternus has said he wants to restore some of the product “magic” associated with Steve Jobs while pushing Apple further into artificial intelligence.
Apple is expected to show its first foldable iPhone and other devices at its September event, along with updates to Siri and other AI features that have lagged rivals. Analysts say hardware innovation and a clearer AI strategy will define his early tenure.
Markets had months to price in the change. The stock has risen about 37% since Cook announced he’d step down and sits not far from its summer highs. Whether Tuesday’s bounce holds will depend less on the title change itself than on what Ternus delivers in the coming product cycle and in Apple’s long-awaited AI response.
MacDailyNews Take: Today is a very happy day for Apple, full of promise!
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Apple enters its John Ternus era
Apple has entered a new chapter: John Ternus’s first day as CEO, succeeding Tim Cook after 15 years. The hardware veteran takes the helm of a $4.7 trillion company facing two sharp pressures — Apple’s still-unsettled place in AI and a global memory shortage that’s already pushing up device prices. His first major public test comes September 9th at the company’s special media event, expected to feature new iPhones and Apple Watches, as investors watch whether he can evolve Apple beyond his predecessor’s iterative playbook.
Ternus is tasked with convincing shareholders, employees and customers that he can lead the company into the future and that he’s not just doing what the old boss would do.
“What worked for Tim Cook is not going to be the same that works for John Ternus,” [Kathy Gersch, CEO of Kotter, a consulting firm focused on leadership changes and transitions], said in an interview. “The company is in a new environment. It’s going to have to keep evolving and competing.”
Ternus’ hardware expertise and his decades spent hiring engineering talent could be a boon for Apple as it enters a potentially new era of devices, said Gene Munster, managing partner at Deepwater Asset Management.
“They went with a product person, and I think that’s important,” Munster said. In the next couple years, Munster said, Ternus needs to “light up recruiting and bring in awesome talent, because they still need to reinvent themselves.”
It’s a challenge Ternus has been pondering for years, and one he talked about with CNBC in 2023.
“From the very beginning, we’re thinking about how are all these pieces going to come together to make the best possible product for our customers,” he said.
MacDailyNews Take: Apple should always be run by a product person.
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