John Ternus, 51, will succeed Tim Cook as Apple's chief executive officer on September 1, ending Cook's 15-year tenure as CEO. ^[1] Tim Cook will transition to the role of executive chairman of Apple's board of directors following his departure as CEO. ^[2] Perplexity has introduced a new feature called Hybrid Compute that splits sensitive AI tasks between local processing on the user's device and cloud-based AI. ^[3] Kekoso is a voice-to-text application for macOS that requires macOS 14.4 or later and Apple silicon hardware. ^[4] Kekoso processes all audio transcription and recognition locally on the user's Mac using the Neural Engine, without uploading data to external servers. ^[5] Apple reported its strongest June quarter ever with double-digit revenue growth across iPhone, Mac, and Services in every geography. ^[6] John Ternus joined Apple in 2001 and spent 25 years inside the company before his promotion to CEO. ^[7] Perplexity recommends that users utilize a machine with at least 32GB of unified memory to support the Hybrid Compute feature. ^[8] The Hybrid Compute feature is currently available exclusively on Apple Silicon Macs running macOS 15. ^[9] The application costs $29 as a one-time purchase, with no subscription fees or monthly charges. ^[10] The Hybrid Compute feature is currently available to Perplexity Pro subscribers. ^[11] Kekoso includes a feature to record calls and separate speaker streams, transcribing both the user's microphone input and the remote party's audio. ^[12]