Mr. Williams was long considered a leading candidate to replace Tim Cook as the company’s next chief executive.

Apple on Tuesday named Sabih Khan as its new chief operating officer, succeeding Jeff Williams in a long-anticipated ...

However the technology, says Eddy Cue, Apple’s senior vice president of services, goes back further and stems from one of the company’s core beliefs.

Cue, who oversees Apple’s services division, including iCloud and Apple TV+, previously acknowledged Perplexity’s promise while testifying at the Google antitrust trial.

In 2013, Gross sold a startup named Cue to Apple. That purchase helped form the basis of some early AI features in iOS, the operating system for the iPhone.

Adrian Perica, Apple's head of mergers and acquisitions, has weighed the idea with services chief Eddy Cue and top AI decision-makers, as per the report. The iPhone maker reportedly plans to integrate ...

Both companies are incorporating AI into their most important products; for Apple, that’s the iPhone, and for Meta, it’s apps like Instagram and WhatsApp.

Like Cue, Cook has a clear vision for what Apple TV+ and Apple Original Films bring to the company. “We stand at the intersection of technology and the liberal arts,” Cook says.

Bloomberg’s Gurman sites internal sources to claim that Apple’s M&A head Adrian Perica, Services Chief Eddy Cue, and other key AI leaders have held early-stage discussions with Perplexity ...

APPLE executives have held internal talks about potentially bidding for artificial intelligence (AI) startup Perplexity, Bloomberg News reported on Friday, citing people with knowledge of the matter.