Apple’s New CEO Inherits an AI Strategy Built on Outsiders

John Ternus becomes CEO of Apple on Tuesday (Sept. 1), taking over a company whose defining strength has always been tight control of its own technology stack, hardware, software and the chips connecting them, but whose current artificial intelligence strategy runs largely on outside partners. Tim Cook will become executive chairman the same day, continuing to manage Apple’s relationships with the governments and policies globally while Ternus, a 24-year Apple veteran who most recently ran hardw