The Neural Daily 2026-04-25: Apple's Heir and AI Heists

Apple enters the post-Cook era as John Ternus takes the reins, signaling a high-stakes return to "Product CEO" decisiveness and Edge AI dominance. We break down the escalating AI cold war—from China’s "adversarial distillation" tactics to DeepSeek-V4’s brutal pricing shock—alongside Sony’s terrifyingly fast ping-pong robots. Between Meta’s billion-dollar talent raids and Amazon’s massive infrastructure play, the $4 trillion changing of the guard is officially here.