Welcome to 9 to 5 Mac Daily for Monday, February 16th, 2026. I'm your host, Chance Miller. We are sponsored this week by Stuff, the Clean and Powerful To-To-D list application.

Leading off today, FTC Chairman Andrew Ferguson is asking Tim Cook directly to review Apple News's curation policies

after claims that the service suppresses conservative publications.

Last week, the conservative watchdog group Media Research Center published the results of a study

that alleged Apple had refrained from using any right-leaning outlets

in its Apple News Morning Editions between January 1st and January 31st.

The study claimed that while Apple News had featured articles from elitist media outlets that amplify the left,

as well as center outlets, the same wasn't true for right-leaning and conservative media.

FTC chairman Andrew Ferguson then sent a letter directly to Tim Cook, suggesting that Apple News

might be in breach of Section 5 of the FTC Act, which prohibits unfair or deceptive acts or

practices, including material misrepresentations and

omissions to consumers. In the letter, Ferguson tells Cook that while the First Amendment protects

the speech of big tech companies, that protection doesn't extend to situations that Congress may

deem unfair under the FTC Act.

As it stands right now, Apple has not publicly responded to Ferguson's letter or the MRC studies.

Whether or not there's any bearing to these claims remains to be seen, and we'll have to

wait to see if Apple makes any changes in response to know what they think.

Next up today, according to a new report from Bloomberg, Tesla is still working on adding

CarPlay integration to its cars. The automaker, however, reportedly hit a few hurdles

in this process that it had to ask Apple to fix. Bloomberg broke the news last November that

Tesla was working on CarPlay support and that the feature could launch in the coming months.

Tesla's plan is to integrate CarPlay as a window inside its broader interface.

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