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This week: Sora is number one on the App Store, OpenAI’s iPhone killer has a steep uphill battle and the iPad gets a great old feature back — and better than before. Also: How to set up call screening, a recent Mac switcher setup, and Apple’s spotty relationship with enterprise products.

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This week’s stories:

Sora rockets to No. 1 on App Store

• OpenAI’s Sora iPhone app is hugely popular because using AI to create funny videos is so much fun. Watch some hilarious videos made with it.

OpenAI struggles to create its iPhone killer

• Understand the hurdles OpenAI encounters while developing the AI companion that potentially could be a new rival for iPhone and Android.

Second iOS 26.1 and macOS Tahoe 26.1 betas go out to devs and the public

• Apple seeded the second beta versions of iOS 26.1 and macOS Tahoe 26.1 to developers and the public, letting them test these upcoming operating systems.

Screen calls on iPhone and you, too, can live in interruption-free bliss

• You have a few options on your iPhone to screen calls: one aptly named Call Screening, as well as Live Voicemail and Silence Unknown Callers.

PC user gets deal on MacBook Air — then gleefully upgrades whole workstation

• User scored a good deal on MacBook Air and then found himself a convert to Mac, upgrading everything as a newly minted "Apple fanboy."