Apple touts $1.4 trillion in App Store billings and sales, 90% without a commission

Apple's WWDC nears: here's what you can look forward to.

Apple’s latest Safari privacy campaign is more than pre-WWDC marketing. It is an early signal of how the company plans to frame artificial intelligence (AI): as something that only works if users trust the platform behind it. The week before WWDC is often significant, as Apple tends to make announcements it simply can’t fit into the keynote itself. This year’s first pre-show reveal is a new campaign focused on privacy that shows how much more private Safari is than rival browsers; there’s even a highly entertaining video that makes the point. Privacy on Safari Apple has been building privacy protections into Safari for years. The browser protects you from malicious scripts that might attempt to access passwords or credit card information. Safari also tells you what data an extension wants to access and can restrict access to match your settings. It blocks third-party cookies by default, detects and removes trackers, and has measures in place to prevent data companies from identifying —

The U.S. Justice Department said a joint public-private operation disrupted more than 1.4 million accounts linked to Southeast Asian scam networks. The effort also helped freeze more than $3.8 million in cryptocurrency tied to funds stolen from Americans. DOJ Targets Southeast Asia Scam Networks, Freezing $3.8M in Stolen Crypto The U.S. Justice Department said it […]

Artificial intelligence is restructuring how companies find customers, communicate value, and close revenue — from the first cold impression to the final contract signature. The companies doing it most consequentially are not layering AI features onto existing software; they are rebuilding the underlying logic of how pipelines are built, how brands defend their position, how commerce converts […]

Chipmaker opens new front in rivalry with Apple, Intel, AMD and Qualcomm

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Apple’s MacBook Neo appears to be a triumph of strategic disruption that has already cast shock waves across the industry — and that energy is still playing out. Approximately 55,000 MacBook Neo computers have been sold every day since it was introduced in March, according to IDC data (as first noted by TechCrunch). In fact, it looks as if Apple sold 1.1 million of these Macs in the first 20 days of sale, the analysts said. There’s no real reason to imagine that level of demand has declined very much. MacBook Neo: Millions sold After all, not only do these Macs continue to dominate Amazon’s US laptop charts, but supply chain rumors claim Apple has doubled its manufacturing orders. “MacBook Neo shipments have come in better than expected, with the 2026 shipment forecast raised from 5 million to 10 million units,” Apple analyst Ming-Chi Kuo said recently.  IDC’s March data may not capture the larger extent of the demand, as IDC analyst Navkendar Singh pointed out that MacBook Neo shipmen

OpenAI has launched a major enterprise expansion of Codex, releasing six job-specific plug-ins targeting data analytics, creative production, sales, product design, equity investing, and investment banking. Each plug-in bundles integrations and context to make Codex functional out of the box for non-technical knowledge workers. The move is backed by an internal report showing Codex now has more […]