Apple News & Updates
Last updated November 14, 2026
Epic rejects Apple’s bid for court-ordered settlement talks over what it can charge on purchases made outside the App Store
OpenAI moves to dismiss Apple’s trade secrets suit, arguing Apple’s own iCloud and offboarding practices undercut the claim
Apple asks the court to bar OpenAI from using its trade secrets as OpenAI publishes messages it says undercut the case
Apple’s practice of pairing work iCloud storage with personal Apple IDs leaves departing employees still holding internal files
Public Knowledge asks the appeals court to force a Chrome divestiture and ban Google’s search payments to Apple and Mozilla
OpenAI publishes messages and emails it says undercut Apple’s trade secrets suit and its request for a preliminary injunction
Stripe launches its own subscriptions app on the Shopify App Store, competing with Recharge, Loop, and Shopify’s native tool
Apple launches a device leasing program called Apple Upgrade with Klarna as the financial backer
Apple taps Klarna to bankroll Apple Upgrade, a device leasing program launching July 28 that replaces its iPhone financing
Meta pilots StoryKit, an iPhone app that turns a photo of a child’s favorite toy into AI-generated personalized storybooks
Google search users press Judge Rita Lin to keep their antitrust suit alive over its default-search deals with Apple and Android
San Francisco’s city attorney orders Apple and Google to pull 13 AI face-swap apps used to make nonconsensual nude images
Apple bars home-services businesses from its upcoming Maps ads, a more curated line than Google’s big Local Services Ads
Sen. Mark Warner’s draft AI AGENT Act would make Amazon, Google, Meta, and Apple open their platforms to outside AI agents
OpenAI’s IPO window narrows as Anthropic overtakes it in valuation, Microsoft ties cool, and Apple’s lawsuit adds legal risk
Apple sues OpenAI and its hardware chief Tang Tan, alleging former Apple staff took trade secrets to build rival devices
OpenAI appoints former Apple iPad marketing lead Mili Kapoor, previously at Meta and Nestlé, as its consumer marketing lead
Even Realities, an ex-Apple engineer’s smart glasses startup, raises $150M at a $1B valuation led by Meituan and Tencent
UK CMA moves to break Apple and Google’s mobile duopoly by letting developers steer users to outside payments, bypassing app-store fees up to 30%
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