Johny Srouji named Apple’s Chief Hardware Officer
Apple today announced that, effective immediately, Apple executive Johny Srouji will become chief hardware officer. Srouji, who most recently served as senior vice president of Hardware Technologies, will assume an expanded role leading Hardware Engineering, which John Ternus most recently oversaw, as well as the hardware technologies organization.
By June 30, 2026, Tesla will officially discontinue the Model S and Model X.
Since the Model S rolled out in 2012 and Model X in 2016, about 740,000 of them have been delivered, each one helping define an era of Tesla’s and automotive history.
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NEWS: Tesla has officially discontinued Autopilot in the U.S. and Canada. All new car purchases now come standard with Traffic-Aware Cruise Control.
The online configurator has now been updated to allow buyers to choose the $99/month FSD subscription, while still offering the option to purchase FSD outright for $8,000 until February 14th.
New Tesla vehicles purchases still come with a 30-day free trial of FSD (Supervised).
BREAKING: Apple quietly gave hardware chief John Ternus oversight of the company’s hardware and software design teams at the end of last year, marking the first evidence he is being groomed for the eventual Apple CEO role. https://t.co/NprL2gT58S
$AAPL is planning a big Siri reset, with a full chatbot version in the second half of 2026 that Bloomberg says is code named “Campos”
The report says it will lean on Google’s Gemini model and Apple may even run it on $GOOGL Cloud TPUs in a deal worth about $1B a year.
Bloomberg also says Apple is working on an AI wearable pin and is targeting up to 20M units for a 2027 launch.