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Apple filed a blockbuster lawsuit against OpenAI on Friday, accusing the company of trade secret theft. There are a lot of interesting tidbits throughout the initial filing, but one stat in particular stood out to me: the number of former Apple employees now working at OpenAI.

Today’s 9to5Toys Lunch Break is headlined by Amazon dropping the price on AirPods Pro 3 down to the lowest we have seen since Prime Day at $50 off, which joins the ongoing deals on AirPods 4. Amazon is also now offering $100 off most affordable 42mm and 46mm Apple Watch Series 11 models and $130

Apple captured a record 20% share of the global smartphone market in the second quarter of 2026, even as worldwide shipments fell 4% year-over-year amid an ongoing memory chip shortage, according to a new report from Omdia. It is Apple’s best second-quarter showing on record, landing in what is normally its slowest stretch of the

Despite facing its second trade secret theft lawsuit in a little more than a year over its hardware ambitions, OpenAI still plans to unveil its first product this year and release it in 2027, Bloomberg reports. Here are the details.

According to a new Counterpoint Research report, Apple grew iPhone shipments by 3% year over year and captured a record 20% share of global smartphone shipments despite an industry-wide downturn. Here are the details.

Apple is developing a new API that will let third-party accessories, including Meta‘s Ray-Ban ‌Meta‌ glasses and Quest headsets, automatically pair across a user’s Apple devices the same way AirPods and the Apple Watch do today, according to Apple’s EU Interoperability Request page. The plan responds to a request ‌Meta‌ filed in October 2025 under

Amazon this week has low prices on the Apple Watch Series 11, with $100 discounts across numerous models of the smartwatch. This sale includes a handful of 42mm and 46mm GPS aluminum models, but cellular devices are a bit more rare this time around. Note: MacRumors is an affiliate partner with Amazon. When you click

Epic has submitted its opposition to Apple’s latest request to pause lower-court App Store commission proceedings while the Supreme Court reviews part of the case. Here are the details.

Apple has acquired certain assets and hired employees from SigScalr, the company behind the observability app SigLens. Here are the details.

In March, Apple informed the EU that it had agreed to acquire certain assets and hire employees from SigScalr, according to a notice published today on the European Commission’s website. SigScalr created the open-source observability platform SigLens, which companies can use to aggregate and analyze logs, metrics, and traces at massive scales for monitoring and