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Anthropic shipped Claude Opus 4.8 this morning. If you only read the headline you’d file it under “incremental point release and move on,” and the company itself frames it that way — a modest but tangible step up from Opus 4.7, available at the same price. But a few of the things riding alongside it actually matter for how I work day to day on a Mac, and they’re worth ten minutes of your attention before you go back to whatever you were building. Here’s the short version of w

Apple announced this afternoon that Tim Cook will become executive chairman and John Ternus will take over as CEO effective September 1, 2026. Cook stays on through the summer to manage the transition, then moves to the board chair role where he'll focus on policy engagement. This wasn't a surprise. Ternus has been the favorite to succeed Cook in industry coverage for at least a year, and Apple disclosed in a filing that the board made the appointment on Friday. What's worth