As OpenAI continues its meteoric rise — boasting billions in revenue from ChatGPT and API usage while dominating headlines — the company faces a stark financial reality that could threaten its very existence. In a new New York Times opinion piece this week, historian and financial expert Sebastian Mallaby warns that despite massive fundraising rounds and explosive growth, OpenAI is hemorrhaging cash at an unprecedented scale, with projections suggesting it could run out of money within the next 18 months if current burn rates persist and new capital doesn’t materialize. This dire prediction for OpenAI highlights the high-stakes gamble of frontier AI development: enormous compute costs, relentless R&D spending, and losses in the billions annually — even as revenue surges.…

Apple CEO Tim Cook (photo: David Paul Morris — Bloomberg/Getty Images) In American football, a “game manager” quarterback is one who protects the ball, executes the playbook, and keeps the scoreboard ticking through steady, conservative play. Tim Cook has been precisely that for Apple: an operations maestro who took the reins from the legendary Steve Jobs in 2011 and transformed the company into a financial juggernaut, ballooning its market cap from $350 billion to over $4 trillion through supply-chain efficiency, massive stock buybacks, and incremental refinements of products created under Apple’s visionary co-founder Steve Jobs. Yet, as Jobs himself might have envisioned, Cook was never meant to be the long-term playmaker — the electrifying, risk-taking, charismatic visionary who redraws the…

Longtime Apple analyst Gene Munster is out with his 2026 predictions. To see his 2025 predictions and how they fared (4.5 for 10), click or tap here. Below are Gene’s 2026 predictions that involve Apple. Gene Munster for GeneMunster.com: ‎ • The Nasdaq will end the year up +10% primarily driven by the AI trade – We’re still early in AI and now believe we are entering year 3 of a 5 year bull market that will likely end with the market leveling off rather than a sharp collapse. The current bubble talk is actually constructive because it keeps expectations in check and lowers the risk of an actual bubble forming. • Apple will launch the new Siri before April 30, 2026,…

Apple’s rack-mounted Mac Pro The secret behind the Mac Pro’s immense power and legendary upgradability was the freedom to install whichever CPUs and GPUs you wanted, along with as much RAM, storage (HDDs or SSDs), or expansion cards as you needed. With the switch to clearly superior Apple Silicon, however, the CPU, GPU, and RAM are now permanently fused onto a single system-on-chip (SoC) package that is soldered to the logic board. As a result, the Mac Pro has lost basically all of the user-upgradable components that once justified its existence. Ben Lovejoy for 9to5Mac: ‎ Doubts about the need for the Mac Pro were further strengthened by the launch of the Mac Studio back in 2022. An M2 Ultra…

Rhea Seehorn in “Pluribus,” now streaming on Apple TV. By SteveJack In an era where dystopian tales flood our screens — zombies shambling through The Walking Dead, surveillance states choking Black Mirror — Vince Gilligan’s Pluribus arrives like a sly whisper in the dark. Premiering on Apple TV just days ago, this sci-fi psychological thriller, starring Rhea Seehorn as the perpetually scowling Carol Sturka, doesn’t bombard us with overt horrors. Instead, it lures us into a world of enforced happiness, where a mysterious extraterrestrial RNA formula, transmitted from deep space, infects humanity through water supplies and petri dishes, transforming billions into a monolithic hive of unrelenting cheer. Carol, one of a handful of those immune — a grieving, cynical writer…

Apple Music stands alone in the major music streaming landscape by offering no free, ad-supported tier, requiring users to subscribe from the start at $10.99 per month for individuals (or via family and student plans) to access its full catalog of over 100 million songs, spatial audio, and lossless quality. In contrast, rivals like Spotify provide a robust free option funded by advertisements, allowing non-paying users to stream music with occasional interruptions, shuffle-only playback on mobile, and limited skips—features designed to hook listeners before upselling to Premium. This ad-free mandate gives Apple Music a premium, uninterrupted experience but limits its reach among budget-conscious or casual users, while Spotify’s freemium model has fueled its dominance with over 600 million monthly active…