While the new Siri AI is, of course, taking the headlines, there are a number of less spectacular but still useful AI enhancements in Apple’s upcoming operating systems.

I recently highlighted the new AI photo editing tools , and Macworld has spotted a small but handy AI enhancement to Apple’s productivity apps …

Last week saw a highly unusual warning from Apple that the company will need to increase the prices of its products due to the ongoing memory shortage.

Tim Cook declined to say anything about either the scale of the increases or their timing, leading to speculation on both …

In the era of Apple Silicon, MacBooks are more affordable than ever. Nowadays, you can buy a MacBook Air with 512GB of storage and 16GB of memory for $1099 directly from Apple, when such a configuration would’ve cost $1599 just a few years ago. And on top of that, we have MacBook Neo bringing the entry-point down substantially.

That said, Apple has warned that there will be price hikes in the future because of the

Last year, Apple debuted Digital ID on iPhone , allowing users to use their US passport as identification in Apple Wallet. Apple’s been rolling out drivers licenses in Wallet slowly over the past few years, but that’s on a state-by-state basis. Digital ID is universal, allowing anyone with a passport to use it.

Of course, you can use it at TSA checkpoints in airports – but Apple had a bigger scope in mind: digital age and identity verification. While not yet confirmed,

Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman today posted the latest edition of his Power On newsletter , recapping the last ten years of Apple’s corporate structure in which the influence of the design team waned at the executive levels in the Cook era, fuelled by Jony Ive’s exit and talent departures as finance and operations had an increasingly larger say over product direction.

However, Gurman believes that incoming CEO John Ternus may be about to reset that relationship, and reaffirm the importance of the design group for the company’s future.

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