#TimCook

A closed Hormuz arrives at the kitchen table, Musk vs. Altman puts a trillion dollars on trial, the Big Four bet $650 billion on AI, and Trump sends 25% tariff invoices to long-time allies. K-pop's seventeen-year slave-contract era closes with a standard-contract reform.

Tim Cook's 25-year goodbye, $40 billion poured into Anthropic, shots near the White House dinner, and TXT's first Grand Slam — a week of power handed over and crises distributed.

Apr 27, 2026·

Jeong Jin Lee

Apple announced Tim Cook will step down as CEO on September 1st, replaced by hardware chief John Ternus. What does a hardware-first leader mean for Apple's future?