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Apple said to plan first touchscreen MacBook Pro for late 2026/early 2027 debut
Bay Area Times
October 17, 2025
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- Apple said to plan first touchscreen MacBook Pro
- OpenAI pitches “Sign in with ChatGPT” to shift usage costs
- Anthropic debuts “Claude Skills” to boost task performance
- Upgrade raises $165M in 1st round since 2021 at $7.3B valuation
- Harvard posts $113M deficit as endowment hits record $56.9B
- Nintendo said to target 25M Switch 2 units by March 2026
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1. Apple said to plan first touchscreen MacBook Pro for late 2026/early 2027 debut
An OLED display with a hole-punch design is expected.
14” and 16” sizes, codenamed K114 and K116.
Thinner, lighter frames and an M6 chip are expected under the hood.
A reinforced hinge and screen hardware aim to prevent bounce or movement when touched.
Likely to cost a few hundred dollars more than current versions.
The touchscreen approach reverses Steve Jobs’ stance that “touch surfaces don’t want to be vertical.”
Stock little changed on Thu. following the news, closing -1%.
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3. OpenAI said to pitch “Sign in with ChatGPT” to shift usage costs to customers
Representational image generated using ChatGPT.
The feature would let startups pass OpenAI model costs directly to their users, charging against the user’s capacity limits in their ChatGPT account.
OpenAI stands to boost revenue and drive ChatGPT subscriptions through the move.
Some users may balk at paying ChatGPT for use of an unrelated third-party product.
Separately, OpenAI expects to spend 20-30% less on Broadcom co-developed chips than on those from NVIDIA.
