Apple is reportedly teaming up with deferred payment processor Klarna to launch a new lease-to-own program for its devices. Bloomberg reported on Tuesday that the program, called Apple Upgrade, will launch next Tuesday, July 28. It will allow consumers to pay for purchases over multi-year periods, including iPhones, iPads, Macs and Apple Watches. Bloomberg writes
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Apple recently filed a trade secret lawsuit against OpenAI, accusing the artificial intelligence company of a pattern of misconduct aimed at getting current and former Apple employees to share confidential information. (In response, OpenAI said it is “not aware of any evidence that this complaint has merit.”) On the latest episode of TechCrunch’s Equity podcast,
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Apple filed a trade secret lawsuit against OpenAI last Friday, and it’s not pulling any punches. The complaint alleges a pattern of misconduct reaching back to OpenAI’s hardware director and claims that more than 400 former Apple employees now work at the company. OpenAI’s response so far has been carefully covered, and the timing couldn’t
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The city of San Francisco has ordered Apple and Google to remove dozens of “nudification” apps (software programs that can digitally alter images to undress the people in them) from their app stores. California law criminalizes any activity that “knowingly facilitates” or “recklessly aids or abets” the creation of non-consensual deepfake pornography. In 2025, California
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Months after analysts warned that AI-driven demand for memory chips would spread to consumer electronics, India is providing the strongest evidence yet that disruption has arrived, with rising mobile phone prices reshaping the smartphone market. The memory chips in question (RAM and storage components) are the same ones that tech giants need in bulk to
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Apple is raising prices for Apple Music subscription plans — the tech giant’s first rate increases for the service since fall 2022 — citing higher music licensing costs. The new price is effective in many of the markets around the world where Apple Music is available, including the US. Based on the new Apple Music
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