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Apple has asked some of its suppliers to cut production of iPhone 18 Pro components due to lower-than-expected demand, according to Nikkei Asia ($). Citing its own sources, the report claims that Apple has been more cautious about shipments since early September because of the rising cost of memory chips, leading to higher prices. Component…

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There’s a reason we’ve built some contacts in China, and refuting supply chain sources saying that demand for the iPhone 18 Pro is so low that Apple has cut back production is one of them.Allegedly, iPhone 18 Pro demand is lowIn October 2025, it was that the iPhone Air orders might be be changing. In…

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Assuming you’ve got an AMD video card, and you probably do, you can still run local AI projects. The ToshLLM project claims “Native Metal acceleration, zero cloud, and no per-token bill.” It won’t be as fast as the M5 Ultra Mac Studio, of course, but it’ll use the hardware you already have, at least.ToshLLM Continue…

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If you want to make music but don’t know where to start, your first port of call should be GarageBand. This is all you need to know about laying tracks in Apple’s music tool for macOS.GarageBand for MacMac’s screen. That is, creating the music, producing the track, mastering it, and creating a final song you…

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The technology behind Huxe, an iOS audio app that using AI to summarize news or automatically generates whole podcasts, has been bought by Apple, which may also be hiring the developer’s staff.Huxe could create entire podcasts from a single AI prompt – image credit: Huxe.Apple is continuously buying AI firms. Usually it’s via a whole…

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Apple has reached an agreement to recruit employees from Huxe and license the AI audio startup’s technology, according to a new European Commission filing. The filing says Apple will have the right to make employment offers to certain Huxe employees and receive a non-exclusive license to the company’s intellectual property, so this isn’t an outright…

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The Bambu Lab A2L pairs big prints with little hassle, making it an excellent first 3D printer for ambitious crafters, and at a pretty good price point, too.Bambu Lab A2LBambu Lab reached out to me and told me that it would be launching the A2L, a multifunction filament 3D printer designed for the home crafting…

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Anthropic today updated its usage policy (via The Verge) to bar users from subjecting Claude to “sustained and needless abusive or cruel behavior.” Anthropic says the abuse rule is meant to apply only in extreme cases, where users “repeatedly act cruelly” toward the AI models with “no discernible purpose.” The rule does not apply to…

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