… The move is a cost-cutting measure, claims the leaker. In practice, this means performance on the iPhone 18 and iPhone 18e will be fairly similar. Features like ProMotion, Camera Control, Dynamic Island, and more will remain core selling points of the base model iPhone 18, though. …
… Recent reporting points to strong performance for base iPhone models, and continued availability supports that positioning as newer devices approach. …
… The claims were also quite identical, with Apple& 039;s changing of supply chain orders for the model cited as proof it was floundering. Of course, this all ignored things like how the Pro models tend to be high sellers in the annual cycle, and the lower-spec models shine later in the year. …
A new report claims that Apple intends to make few changes to the current Apple Watch Series 11, beyond a new Watch face. …
… AI models are shifting from answers to completed work OpenAI points to a range of benchmark results to show how GPT-5.5 improves on earlier models. …
… Both models are expected to be spec bump upgrades, offering only performance upgrades, relative to their M4 counterparts. In that regard, the updated Mac mini configurations will likely be similar to the M5 MacBook Air and the MacBook Pro models with Apple& 039;s M5 Pro and M5 Max chips. …
… It& 039;s just that those are what it calls "renewed" models from other firms. So at present, it is selling a third-party refurbished iPhone 15 for $629 for 128GB storage, running iOS 18, where Apple sells that model new from $699 with iOS 26. …
… Compare that to the year-ago performance, $16 billion, and that& 039;s a $4.4 billion increase. …
… The underlying Apple Intelligence models will receive an upgrade as well, thanks to Google Gemini& 039;s involvement. …
… However, the study notes that "Across all models, global conditional counting emerges as a key bottleneck, revealing persistent limitations in compositional and logical reasoning." In other words, most current MLLMs "struggle with spatial memory, functional knowledge integration, and linking percep… …