Welcome to 9 to 5 Mac Daily for Monday, October 20th, 2025. I'm your host, Chance Miller. We are

sponsored this week by Backblaze. Leading off today, Apple has officially announced that it's

becoming the exclusive broadcast partner for Formula One racing in the United States. The popular and growing sport will come to Apple TV

starting next year. This comes following months of rumors and speculation, but Apple has now made it

official. It's reached a five-year deal with Liberty Media, the parent company of Formula One,

to stream all F1 races on Apple TV starting in 2026.

One big thing to point out here is that unlike Apple's MLS season pass, which is a separate

paid service, Formula One races will stream entirely for free for Apple TV subscribers.

So this means that if you subscribe to Apple TV, the streaming service

formerly known as Apple TV Plus, you'll have access to all F1 races at no additional cost. So in addition

to gaining access to shows like Severance, Ted Lasso, and The Morning Show, you'll now have that F1

access to. Apple teases that it will offer a more dynamic

and elevated viewing experience than what's been done before with F1. Meanwhile, F1 TV,

which is F1's direct-to-consumer subscription streaming service, will continue to exist. You'll just

have to sign into the F1 TV app with your Apple TV credentials.

F1 TV offers features like multiple camera angles, the ability to merge different feeds together,

and is widely viewed as the best way to watch races.

Apple will share more details about its F1 plans in the lead-up to the kickoff of the 2026 season. In the meantime, you can

find out more details at the link in the show notes below. Next up today, meta's streak of hiring

high-profile executives from Apple's AI team continues, with Bloomberg reporting that

meta poached Ki-Yang, who had only recently been appointed to lead Apple's rumor

chat GPT-like search project. In recent months, Apple has lost a ton of notable machine learning

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