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🗓️ 26 February 2026
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Stories discussed in this episode:
- Berkshire Hathaway reduces Apple stake as Warren Buffett officially retires
- Apple’s low-cost MacBook might lack these features
- Apple acquires startup specializing in AI-powered light and optics
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to 9 to 5 Mac Daily for Thursday, February 26th, 2026. I'm your host, Chance Miller. We're sponsored this week by Ben Q. |
| 0:13.0 | Leading off today, according to a new filing with the European Union, Apple has acquired the assets of a company called inverse.io and hired its founder, who is also the only employee. |
| 0:24.8 | Apple informed the European Union last October that it would acquire certain assets and hire the sole equity holder and employee of inverse.io, |
| 0:33.4 | saying that the company develops open source frameworks for photonics research, |
| 0:38.4 | providing standardized simulation challenges, and a public leaderboard for benchmarking and comparing design results. |
| 0:46.2 | The company's founder, Martin Schubert, worked as a research scientist at Meta before leaving to found inverse.io, |
| 0:56.0 | and has spent more than a decade working on advanced display, chip, and optical technologies at Google and Micron. Inverse.io's GitHub page |
| 1:03.6 | says that it aims to advanced AI-guided design focusing initially on optics, a space for |
| 1:09.9 | critical components in AR, VR, |
| 1:11.7 | data centers, autonomous vehicles, and beyond. The page also says that the company is developing |
| 1:18.0 | an ecosystem accessible to everyone, from AI scientists to optimization researchers and |
| 1:23.9 | optics designers. It lists multiple open source projects, including standardized design |
| 1:29.3 | challenges, optimization tools, and a public leaderboard. It's not immediately clear what Apple |
| 1:35.3 | plans to do with these tools or how Schubert will be deployed internally. Photonics is the |
| 1:41.5 | science of designing components that manipulate light, and is obviously relevant to a wide range of products, including cameras, displays, sensors, and lidar scanners. |
| 1:51.7 | It's pretty easy to see how these tools from inverse.io, which seemingly use AI to simulate and optimize how light behaves and complex structures could help Apple across the board |
| 2:02.4 | with iPhones, iPads, Apple Vision Pro, and more. |
| 2:06.1 | Next up today, in a new SEC disclosure this month, Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway |
| 2:11.1 | revealed that it has once again trimmed its stake in Apple. |
| 2:15.5 | The transactions were made in the final quarter of 2025, which also marked the end of Buffett's |
| 2:21.5 | leadership at Berkshire. |
| 2:23.6 | Berkshire sold 4% of its stake in Apple during Q4 2025. |
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