Apple announced Monday that Tim Cook will step down as CEO later this year, with John Ternus set to take over on September 1. Ternus has been at Apple for over 25 years and has played a pivotal role in every Apple product category since joining.

Here’s everything you need to know about Apple’s next CEO, widely described as a “super nice guy” with an engineering and product background.

Ternus attended the University of Pennsylvania from 1993 to 1997, where he

John Ternus officially starts as Apple CEO on September 1, 2026, just ahead of the company’s biggest product launch event of the year. Here are the 10+ new Apple products rumored to be the first launched under Ternus as CEO.

OpenAI has teased its next AI software product announcement happening later today. The teaser gives us a good idea of what to expect.

The company shared what looks like a screenshot of ChatGPT running in Chrome on macOS.

However, the image caption insists that this is not actually a screenshot.

Instead, OpenAI appears to be teasing its new gpt-image-2 AI image generation technology. In correct, OpenAI has greatly improved on generating text and realistic UI for image generation from text prompts.

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Apple TV has the return of one of its biggest sci-fi hits: Silo season 3 is coming this summer.

Beats has two pieces of news to share today. First, the company has unveiled the next step in its partnership with K-pop star JENNIE: a new special-edition pair of Beats Solo 4 in Onyx Black.

The Apple subsidiary is also expanding its lineup of USB-C cables…

This is the second special edition JENNIE version of the Beats Solo 4. Last September, Beats and JENNIE teamed up on a Ruby Red pair of Solo 4 headphones that completely sold out in under 24 hours.

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Speculation about Tim Cook’s retirement date intensified when he turned 65 in November of last year, and this was quickly followed by Apple testing the waters for John Ternus as his replacement this year.

That test went very well indeed , with the company last month laying further groundwork for yesterday’s announcement …

Ternus has a lot of things going for him, both within Apple and outside the company. Internally, he is said to be well-liked and respected as a manager, as well as decisive.

Investors

Around 3 million user photos from dating app OkCupid were used for AI training by a third-party company in direct contravention of the company’s own privacy policy …

The privacy breach dates back to 2014, but reports that the case was only finally resolved this month, with both the photos and the AI model generated from them being deleted.

The underlying incident began over a decade ago. OkCupid’s founders were investors in Clarifai, and Clarifai’s founder Matthew Zeiler contacted OkCupid co-founder Maxwell

Weibo leaker Digital Chat Station (DCS) was the first to suggest that Apple was working on a 200MP camera module for a future iPhone. This would be a huge increase in resolution over the 48MP sensors used in current models.

There have been conflicting rumors since then about timings, but it now seems everyone is aligned on a 2028 release …

There was subsequent speculation about whether the new module would be introduced into iPhones in 2027 or 2028, but