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Chips & Infrastructure

Apple’s new MacBook Pro is the first Mac with a touchscreen

The 14-inch and 16-inch models have an OLED screen, the Dynamic Island from the iPhone, and M5 Pro or M5 Max chips. They start at $2,899 and $3,399 and reach stores on November 6.

Apple announced a new MacBook Pro on October 28 with a touch display that it calls PROLED XDR. It is the first Mac that people can control by touching the screen. Orders opened the same day in 30 countries, Apple says. The new laptops sit above the cheaper M6 MacBook Pro that Apple announced a day earlier.

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Agents & Apps

Apple Intelligence test due in China this month, Cook says

Tim Cook, now Apple’s executive chairman, told China’s The Paper that Live Translation, Writing Tools and Clean Up come first, without Siri AI. Bloomberg reports a public release in December; Apple has not confirmed it.

Apple executive chairman Tim Cook told The Paper, a state-backed news site in Shanghai, on October 15 that Apple has approval to bring the first Apple Intelligence features to users in China. He said a test version will come later in October. Siri AI is not part of it.

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Chips & Infrastructure

Apple’s $299 HomeView puts Siri AI on a home screen

Apple also showed a new Apple TV 4K and HomePod mini on October 13. Siri AI starts as a test version in English and in eight countries, and HomeView will not be sold in the EU.

Apple unveiled HomeView, a 7-inch screen for the home, at its “Welcome home” event in New York. It costs $299 and arrives on November 13, on the same day as a new $299 Apple TV 4K. A new $149 HomePod mini ships on October 30, but it gets Siri AI only in a later update.

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Agents & Apps

Siri AI is finally on real devices

The beta starts with useful limits.

Apple began the English beta on September 14. Siri can use messages, email, photos, screen content, and app actions, but access depends on device, region, language, and daily cloud limits.

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