Apple and why the man who builds things is now in charge of everything
Tim Cook made Apple the second-most valuable company on earth by mastering supply chains, politics, and patience. His successor has spent 25 years making the products. Now we find out if that's enough.
Business
Tim Cook to step down as Apple chief executive after 15 years, handing reins to hardware chief John Ternus
Cook will become executive chairman while Ternus, who has spent 25 years at Apple and oversees the devices generating roughly 80% of its revenue, takes over on 1 September
Tech
Anthropic and Amazon bet $100 billion that compute is the moat that matters
The deal is Amazon's answer to its own OpenAI partnership. For Anthropic, it's an infrastructure arms race
Fintech
Ripple partners with South Korean insurer Kyobo Life to pilot tokenised government bond settlement
The collaboration marks Ripple's first deal with a major Korean insurance company and aims to compress two-day bond settlement to near real-time
Entertainment
Apple to release shelved Jessica Chastain thriller The Savant this summer
Series was pulled three days before planned September premiere after assassination of Charlie Kirk
Sport
Prediction markets are booming, but a regulatory battle over sports betting could cut them in half
Crypto's loss has been prediction markets' gain. Now the platforms that thrived by moving fast face the same regulatory reckoning that caught crypto out
Wellness
Hims & Hers revenue grew to $2.35 billion in 2025, but subs were fewer than the market hoped for
Subscribers - who repeat orders for weight loss and/or ED treatments (among others) on a recurring schedule - grew by 13%, to exceed 2.5 million.
