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A report asserts that Jensen Huang is no longer Nvidia's CEO following a series of scandals, and argues that his successor will struggle to replicate the specific skills and relationships that made him central to the company. The report compares Huang's situation to past leadership crises involving Steve Jobs, Elon Musk, and Sam Altman, who each weathered controversy while keeping their roles.
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella said that artificial intelligence is eroding workers' sense of professional identity by quickly reproducing skills that previously took years of training to develop. He framed this as a psychological challenge for people in AI-heavy fields, rather than a purely technical one.
Byron Donalds, set to become Florida's first Black governor, has said he wants NASA to relocate its headquarters to Florida as part of a broader push to expand space and technology jobs in the state. Donalds campaigned on promises to boost space-sector employment, and his proposal comes as speculation grows about NASA's future location plans.
A July 2026 report from the Aspen Institute and Columbia University's Community College Research Center found that more than one-third of community college credentials don't directly lead to living-wage jobs or further degrees that would. In response, a cohort of 10 colleges in the Unlocking Opportunity initiative shifted over 20,000 students into higher-value programs between 2022 and 2025, a 27% enrollment increase in those pathways.
Apple introduced touch support alongside new 'PROLED XDR' OLED displays on redesigned 14-inch and 16-inch MacBook Pro laptops. The new models are lighter than previous versions, include updated speakers, and carry higher prices than their predecessors.
Apple has launched its first touchscreen Mac, a MacBook Pro model that supports touch input alongside its trackpad and keyboard. Apple executive John Ternus said touch is meant as a supplementary input method rather than the primary way of using the machine, describing the Mac as 'first and foremost an indirect input device.'
Apple has introduced a touchscreen MacBook Pro, abandoning its long-held position against touch displays on Mac laptops. The new model starts at $2,899, roughly $1,000 more than the standard MacBook Pro, and executives including CEO John Ternus and marketing chief Greg Joswiak discussed the change publicly.
Apple is said to be developing a MacBook Pro model with a full touchscreen display, internally referenced as 'PROLED'. This marks a reversal from the company's long-standing public stance against touch-enabled laptops, a position dating back to comments from Steve Jobs in 2010 calling touchscreen laptops ergonomically flawed.
Apple has explained how touch input works on its newly announced MacBook Pro with PROLED XDR display, which features a touch sensor built directly into the screen. Users can scroll, pinch-to-zoom, draw, and hide the dock using finger gestures borrowed from iPad interactions, with wider spacing in touch-enabled menus. The laptop starts at $2,899.
Apple unveiled a new MacBook Pro featuring its first touchscreen and OLED display, branded PROLED XDR, shipping November 6. Pricing starts at $2,900 for the 14-inch M5 Pro model and goes up to $14,549 for a fully configured 16-inch version, with storage now topping out at 16TB.
Speaking with Walter Isaacson on The Builders podcast, Peter Thiel argued Apple has produced no genuinely new innovations since Steve Jobs died in 2011, though he described the company as a 'pure, well-run value stock.' Thiel said the smartphone itself was the big invention, and Apple's work since has mainly been scaling and branding it.
Apple unveiled the original iPod on October 23, 2001, with Steve Jobs presenting it as a hard-disk music player holding 1,000 songs for $399. The device offered 5GB of storage and supported MP3, WAV and AIFF formats, entering a market Jobs said lacked a clear leader despite existing players from Sony, Creative and others.