Mark Gurman argues that under Tim Cook, Apple’s design team lost clout after Jony Ive left and operations gained sway over product decisions. Incoming CEO John Ternus is reportedly rekindling top-level support for industrial design, spending time with Ive’s former team and gearing up to lead major product reveals like the foldable iPhone.

This edition covers Tesla’s trademark filing for “Megapod,” a turnkey AI data center rack including servers, networking, power, and cooling. It also delves into Apple’s challenge rebuilding its industrial design team after losing influence at the exec level. Finally, it explains how developers can use agent hooks to enforce guardrails and stop AI agents from breaking rules mid-work.