John Ternus takes over as Apple CEO, as Tim Cook becomes executive chair; sources say Laura Legros, an Apple hardware VP who retired in 2022, has rejoined Apple (Kalley Huang/New York Times)

Apple named John Ternus chief executive and moved Tim Cook to executive chair, while former hardware VP Laura Legros returned after retiring in 2022. Anthropic launched Claude Fable 5.1 and Claude Mythos 5.1 with enterprise safeguards. OpenAI announced a forthcoming public Astra model limited to select partners. Meta introduced Muse Voice Transcribe, a real-time speech-recognition system supporting over 70 languages. Nvidia revealed an upcoming product launch.