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Apple TV is gearing up for its most spectacular summer lineup to date, and the platform is already enjoying a successful run with its latest premieres. Here are three recent new series that highlight Apple TV’s impressive streak, along with upcoming shows that seem ready to sustain the momentum.

This year’s new offerings from Apple TV have garnered substantial praise.

Throughout much of this year, Apple TV has concentrated on high-profile returning series. These featured new seasons of Shrinking, Hijack, Monarch: Legacy of Monsters, and most recently Your Friends & Neighbors.

However, in the past month, the streamer has redirected its attention to new series—and achieved remarkable success.

Three recent shows rank among Apple’s top-reviewed titles of the year:

All three series have received critical acclaim. Widow’s Bay and Margo’s boast impressive 97% scores on Rotten Tomatoes. My Brother the Minotaur has been somewhat dismissed by some as merely a ‘kid’s show,’ yet its limited reviews deliver high praise—including from The New York Times.

Each series is definitely worth a watch if you haven’t yet seen them.

In the coming weeks, three more brand new shows aim to keep Apple’s winning streak alive.

What’s on the horizon for Apple TV

Maximum Pleasure Guaranteed is set to premiere next week on Wednesday, May 20.

The show features Tatiana Maslany and Jake Johnson and merges the thriller and comedy genres. The storyline revolves around a newly divorced mother caught in a chaotic entanglement of blackmail and murder, along with youth soccer. Early responses have been very positive.

Star City makes its debut the following week on Friday, May 29. It’s a space race thriller situated in the For All Mankind universe.

Starring Rhys Ifans, the show explores the alternate history of For All Mankind but from a Soviet viewpoint. Apple describes it as a “propulsive paranoid thriller,” suggesting a quicker pace than its source material.

Cape Fear will premiere on Friday, June 5, backed by two major figures: Martin Scorsese and Steven Spielberg.

Inspired by the 1991 Scorsese film of the same title, the series stars Javier Bardem as a convicted murderer who is released from jail and seeks revenge against the married lawyers who incarcerated him, portrayed by Amy Adams and Patrick Wilson.

Which shows have you been enjoying on Apple TV? Which upcoming series are you most eager to see? Share your thoughts in the comments.

Apple TV is available for $12.99 a month, or you can get it at a reduced price through the Apple One bundle.

Apple’s Senior Vice President of Software Engineering, Craig Federighi, has been designated as a document custodian in xAI’s antitrust litigation against Apple and OpenAI. Here’s what that entails.

## A little context

Last year, Elon Musk accused Apple and OpenAI of collaborating to hinder competing LLMs from thriving in the App Store, leading to a lawsuit that now also encompasses the super app market.

In the legal action, xAI (which has now joined SpaceX) asserts that Apple’s agreement with OpenAI to embed ChatGPT into Siri has been affecting App Store rankings.

Apple has consistently repudiated these claims, particularly contesting xAI’s depiction that its agreement with OpenAI involves exclusivity, which it does not.

In recent months, xAI has sought to enlarge discovery in the lawsuit, including attempts to obtain documents from foreign corporations under the Hague Convention.

While the US court has approved these requests, success has been limited internationally. In January, South Korea dismissed its appeal to acquire documents from Kakao, which is behind one of the country’s leading super apps. Similar requests are ongoing in other nations.

## Federighi included in xAI’s lawsuit against Apple and OpenAI

This week, the case’s discovery was expanded once more when the court approved xAI’s motion to include Craig Federighi as a custodian but rejected the same proposal for Tim Cook:

> In this instance, Plaintiffs contend both Cook and Federighi “made high-level, strategic decisions about the Apple-OpenAI Agreement.” Plaintiffs have adequately fulfilled this criterion concerning Federighi. They assert that Federighi may possess unique relevant evidence not yet produced regarding Apple’s integration of OpenAI into Apple Intelligence, since, as Senior Vice President of Software Engineering, he was likely a pivotal decision maker in Apple’s software development. However, Plaintiffs did not establish this for Cook. They fail to clarify how Cook is likely to have any unique relevant evidence that has not already been produced or how naming Federighi as a custodian would not address this. Therefore, the Court GRANTS in part Plaintiffs’ request and appoints Craig Federighi as a custodian. Apple must supply responsive discoverable documents in Federighi’s possession by June 17, 2026.

The court also denied xAI’s request to add another unidentified Apple employee to the case, who would have provided insights into iPhone sales. In its ruling, US Magistrate Judge Hal R. Ray, Jr. stated, “[D]ocuments regarding competition in the smartphone industry writ large far exceed the scope of the claims in this case.”

Moreover, the court allowed xAI’s motion to seek documents related to Apple’s partnership with Google, although it curtailed the breadth of the initial request:

> This request is overly expansive and includes information that surpasses the relevant material pertaining to OpenAI’s defense. Nonetheless, the Court finds that associated documents referencing potential exclusivity agreements of the artificial intelligence provider for Apple products are pertinent and proportional to the requirements of this case. Therefore, the Court GRANTS the Motion in part regarding this matter and ORDERS Apple to produce this category of documents by June 17, 2026.

OpenAI, consequently, experienced a minor success, with the court permitting its request to compel Elon Musk to submit “emails at both Tesla and SpaceX, as well as his other text and XChat accounts,” which must be delivered by June 3, 2026.

Finally, the court dismissed xAI’s request for Apple to provide details on how AI is implemented internally, remarking that “it is unclear how Apple’s internal policies for its employees concerning artificial intelligence relate to Plaintiffs’ antitrust claims.”

You can examine the court’s complete decision below:

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