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Monday, September 14, 2026
AI Lately

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Lately
Fidji SimoNscaleas Independent Director· Sep 11Josh EngelsMETRas Researcher· Sep 10Joe BentonMETRas Researcher· Sep 10Alan DuongCrux AIas Chief Development Officer· Sep 10Paul ChristianoOpenAI Foundationas Board Member, Safety and Security Committee· Sep 9Jacob CoxonIndependentas Independent AI Safety Advocate· Sep 8Geoffrey IrvingMathematical AI Safety Instituteas Scientific Advisory Panel Member· Sep 8Paul ChristianoMathematical AI Safety Instituteas Scientific Advisory Panel Member· Sep 8Fidji SimoNscaleas Independent Director· Sep 11Josh EngelsMETRas Researcher· Sep 10Joe BentonMETRas Researcher· Sep 10Alan DuongCrux AIas Chief Development Officer· Sep 10Paul ChristianoOpenAI Foundationas Board Member, Safety and Security Committee· Sep 9Jacob CoxonIndependentas Independent AI Safety Advocate· Sep 8Geoffrey IrvingMathematical AI Safety Instituteas Scientific Advisory Panel Member· Sep 8Paul ChristianoMathematical AI Safety Instituteas Scientific Advisory Panel Member· Sep 8

Person

Tim Cook

Lately: Apple as Executive Chairman, from Apple.

Public record only: name, role, employer, source, and date.

Recorded moves

  1. Tim Cook → Apple as Executive Chairman, from Apple (Chief Executive Officer)

    Cook shifts from operator to elder statesman, trading daily execution for policy diplomacy and board oversight.

    boardconfirmedMacRumors: John Ternus is Now Apple's CEOSep 1, 2026

  2. Tim Cook → Apple as Executive Chairman, from Apple (Chief Executive Officer)

    Closes a 15-year Apple CEO tenure while preserving continuity, a template other boards weighing AI-era leadership change may study.

    boardconfirmedApple Newsroom: Tim Cook to Become Apple Executive Chairman, John Ternus to Become Apple CEOApr 20, 2026

In the archive

  • Hiring & Talent

    The Biggest AI Hires of 2026 (So Far)

    Fidji Simo relinquished her post as OpenAI's second-in-command to illness, Noam Shazeer and three Google veterans departed together to found a rival, and John Ternus rose to Apple's helm, rewriting AI's leadership map in 2026.

  • Hiring & Talent

    Apple's AI Exodus and the Ternus Transition

    Ruoming Pang's move to Meta, John Giannandrea's retirement, a licensed Gemini-powered Siri and John Ternus's hardware-engineer path to chief executive trace Apple's patched AI leadership.

  • Consumer AI

    Apple's Engineer-in-Chief Makes His Case

    John Ternus staked his first keynote as Apple's chief executive on a foldable iPhone and a doubled Neural Engine, betting that hardware built around intelligence answers the question his board asked him to solve.