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• New in iOS 26 beta 5: Camera and Mail toggles, Apple Watch display leak, more
• macOS 26 says goodbye to the classic hard drive icon
• Apple has sold 3 billion iPhones since 2007
• All hands on deck: Tim Cook, Craig Federighi address Apple employees on AI, Siri
• Siri may get Chat GPT-like search powers driven by a new Apple team
• Google mocks Apple's AI delays while standing in a graveyard of late and abandoned products
• This time, the iPhone 17 Air battery may have actually been leaked
• iPhone 17 launch date may have been leaked by German wireless carriers
• Apple's existing U.S. manufacturing partners main beneficiaries of new $100B investment
• Apple's $100 billion investment has almost nothing to do with US iPhone manufacturing
• Apple CEO Tim Cook gifts President Trump gold & glass commemorative plaque
• Apple exempt from 100% semiconductor tariffs, thanks to its $100B U.S. investment
• Made-in-America iPhone not happening anytime soon & Trump seems okay with that
• Wokyis M5 dock review: Mac Plus looks, M4 Mac mini performance

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