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Apple filed a lawsuit against OpenAI last month, accusing the firm behind ChatGPT of stealing trade secrets related to hardware development. Nearly a month later, OpenAI has published a detailed response to many of Apple’s claims in the form of a blog post.

Apple is facing a civil lawsuit in Brazil seeking R$300 million (roughly $59 million) in damages over allegations that children can download and access casino-style games on the App Store without any meaningful age verification. Here are the details.

Update: 11:00 p.m. ET: In a statement to 9to5Mac, Apple said:

“We briefly removed Telegram from the App Store after our review found content that violates our strict guidelines prohibiting child sexual abuse material. The app was subsequently restored after the developer promptly removed the content and banned the user who posted it.”

Apple’s statement came about 20 minutes after access to the app was restored. Earlier tonight, Telegram published a tongue-in-cheek post on X saying, “Reports of my demise are greatly exaggerated 🍎.” Telegram has yet to comment on the actual reason for its brief removal. The original story follows below.

Messaging platform Telegram appears to have been removed from the App Store in multiple countries, although the reason for its apparent removal remains unclear.

Apple has outlined plans to let users copy and paste content between an iPhone and a Windows PC, following an interoperability request from Microsoft in the European Union. Here are the details.

Reuters reports that Russia’s antitrust regulator has opened a formal case against Apple over the company’s failure to preinstall the state-backed MAX messenger and Russia’s RuStore app marketplace on its devices. Here are the details.

As it grapples with a surge in “AI slop” security reports, Apple has recently made changes to its bug bounty program. Here are the details.

Apple will face a class-action lawsuit alleging it violated Illinois’ Biometric Information Privacy Act (BIPA), in a case that could cost the company more than $30 billion. Here are the details.

A new report from The Information details how Apple’s policy of encouraging employees to mix personal and work iCloud accounts has allowed some former staffers to retain access to confidential company files long after leaving. Here are the details.

The new Apple Upgrade program has a key piece of fine print: “If you’re leasing an iPhone, you’ll need to connect to AT&T, T-Mobile, or Verizon when you enroll.”

In a new post today, John Gruber at Daring Fireball has a likely explanation for this requirement.

iOS 27 is a big update for Apple’s Photos app, with improvements to slideshows, shared albums, and more. It also adds a welcome camera roll-type feature many have long been asking for: ‘Captured by Me.’

Reuters reports that a new draft amendment would extend by 10 years a tax break for foreign companies that supply machinery and equipment to contract manufacturers in India. Here are the details.

John Ternus is officially set to take over as Apple CEO on September 1. Ahead of that, he’s shaping the team around him and has brought back a key hardware engineering executive who retired several years ago.

The latest beta build of WhatsApp’s Mac app lets users choose between daily and weekly update schedules, in addition to checking manually for new updates. Here are the details.

Ted Lasso returns for season 4 this week (watch here), and Apple has just announced a clever marketing event: a Ted look-alike contest happening at Apple Fifth Avenue in New York City.

The new LISEN Qi2.2 MagSafe battery strikes a nice balance between size and design, bringing some very interesting features to the lanyard. On the spec side, the key feature is supporting the Qi2.2 standard for much faster MagSafe charging. To me, the most unique feature is a really clever lanyard system for the included cable.

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Hollywood increasingly sees YouTube as its major competition, and per a new report, free tiers from streamers like Disney+ and Paramount+ might be the answer.

Apple has rolled out a new experience for browsing and buying accessories on the Apple Online Store and in the App Store app. The changes make it easier to browse accessories by categories, view editorial curations, and more.

We’re only one month away from Apple’s biggest product launch event of the year: the September iPhone event. Here’s what rumors say is coming.

Back in May, the Google Health app launched alongside the new line of affordable Google Fitbit Air health trackers.

Google Health initially included one-way Apple Health integration. The app could read and import health data recorded by an iPhone, Apple Watch, and other HealthKit-connected apps, but it couldn’t write Fitbit data back to Apple Health.

Today’s Google Health iOS app update adds the missing half of that connection.

Apple recently agreed to acquire a company called PlasmaSolve, according to EU-required filings. Here’s why the new acquisition could make a lot of sense for Apple’s future product roadmap.

Apple’s effort to fight back against a UK-mandated “backdoor” to encryption continues, according to a new Financial Times report.

Tim Bradshaw reports that Apple filed a new legal challenge in July against an attempt by the UK government to force access to encrypted user data.