SSPAI Morning Brief: Apple Tightens App Store Guidelines as Dell Introduces a New Compact Ryzen-Powered Mini PC

Morning Brief

Apple Updates App Store Review and Subscription Rules
Anthropic Unveils Claude Fable 5
Xiaomi Releases MiMo V2.5-Pro-UltraSpeed
Marshall Launches the Stockwell III
Razer Introduces Its First XLR Microphone
Dell Launches the Dell Pro Micro E Mini PC
Beelink ME Pro 13500H Goes on Sale
News Worth a Quick Look

Apple Updates App Store Review and Subscription Rules

Apple has updated its latest App Store Review Guidelines. Under the new rules, Apple may in the future remove certain mature-category apps from the App Store if they have not been updated, improved, or are no longer capable of attracting users over an extended period. The revised guidelines expand the previous rejection criteria that targeted saturated categories such as “fart,” “burp,” “flashlight,” “fortune-telling,” and “dating” apps, broadening them to restrict developers from “opportunistically creating variants of existing app categories or popular apps.” Apple now explicitly mentions wallpaper apps, simple timer apps, and sound-effect apps, requiring new submissions in these categories to provide “differentiated improvements” in order to pass review. Apple has also classified apps centered around drinking, farting, burping, and similar themes as low-quality, low-effort applications, warning that developers who repeatedly submit such apps may lose access to the Apple Developer Program. However, the existing App Store Improvements process will continue to notify developers when apps become outdated or receive little to no downloads, giving them an opportunity to improve their apps before removal. Source

In addition, during WWDC 2026, Apple announced an expansion of the App Store’s App Bundles feature, allowing developers with overlapping user bases but without direct competitive relationships to jointly offer cross-app subscription bundles for the first time. Users can gain access to multiple apps at a lower price than subscribing to each app individually. Source

Anthropic Unveils Claude Fable 5

On June 9, Anthropic publicly launched Claude Fable 5, the first publicly available version of its Mythos model. The model is open for software engineering, knowledge work, and visual tasks, but includes hard safety restrictions in high-risk areas such as cybersecurity, biology, chemistry, and model distillation. Requests involving these domains will be blocked and automatically fall back to Claude Opus 4.8. Anthropic also stated that all traffic associated with Fable 5 and Mythos 5 will be retained for 30 days. According to the company, this data will not be used for training purposes and will only be used to defend against jailbreak attacks and reduce false positives.

Mythos was initially released to a small group of partners as a preview in April before being expanded to hundreds of organizations across 15 countries, with a particular focus on critical infrastructure operators. Fable 5 is now available through the Claude API and Enterprise subscription plans, while Anthropic is simultaneously deploying Mythos 5 to organizations already approved for access to advanced models. Early evaluations indicate that Fable outperforms competing models in tasks such as complex long-horizon analysis benchmarks, generating complete applications in a single pass, tool usage, UI design, and game development. Both Fable 5 and Mythos 5 are priced at $10 per million input tokens and $50 per million output tokens, twice the cost of Opus 4.8. Users of the Pro, Max, Team, and seat-based Enterprise subscription plans can access the models at no additional charge until June 22. Starting June 23, the models will be removed from those subscriptions and will instead consume usage credits. Source

Xiaomi Releases MiMo V2.5-Pro-UltraSpeed

On June 9, Xiaomi MiMo announced a joint release with TileRT of the UltraSpeed mode for Xiaomi MiMo-V2.5-Pro. Through co-design between the model and the system, the mode achieves a generation speed of 1,000 tokens per second for trillion-parameter models on general-purpose GPUs. The MiMo-V2.5-Pro-UltraSpeed API has also been launched simultaneously. Pricing is three times that of MiMo-V2.5-Pro, while output speed is approximately ten times faster. However, the service is available exclusively through the API and is not included in the Token Plan. The trial period runs from June 9, 2026, through 23:59 on June 23, 2026. Source

Marshall Launches the Stockwell III

On June 9, Marshall introduced the Stockwell III portable Bluetooth speaker. Compared with the Stockwell II, battery life has increased from 20 hours to more than 40 hours, while the unit weighs less than 3 pounds (approximately 1.36 kg). It features IP55 dust and water resistance and incorporates Marshall’s proprietary True Stereophonic technology, delivering 360-degree audio regardless of placement position. A built-in dynamic loudness algorithm balances bass, midrange, and treble across different volume levels, while enhancing bass and treble performance at lower volumes. The design continues Marshall’s signature guitar-amp-inspired aesthetic, featuring a PU leather carrying strap, velvet lining, and a brass control panel that allows users to skip tracks, switch presets, and adjust volume. Modular and user-replaceable components include the carrying strap, battery, front and rear grilles, and silicone sleeve. The Stockwell III will be available in two color options, is expected to arrive at major retail channels on August 4, and is priced at $250. Source

Razer Introduces Its First XLR Microphone

On June 9, Razer unveiled the Seiren V3 Pro microphone, its first streaming and podcasting microphone with XLR support, priced at $249.99.

Compared with the Seiren V3 Chroma, the Seiren V3 Pro primarily adds an XLR analog interface while also offering dual USB-C connectivity. Creators can use it as a plug-and-play USB microphone or connect it to an audio interface or mixer via XLR. In USB-C mode, it supports onboard DSP (digital signal processing), including AI noise reduction, a compressor, limiter, and expander. The microphone also features an integrated shock-mount structure and built-in pop filter. On the hardware side, the Seiren V3 Pro adopts a unified enclosure design and includes a gain knob, mute button, and an adjustable shock-absorbing boom-arm mount. It is equipped with a 30mm cardioid capsule and offers a frequency response range of 50Hz to 16kHz. On the software side, the Seiren V3 Pro supports Razer Synapse, enabling 32-bit float recording and integrated RGB lighting effects. Source

Dell Launches the Dell Pro Micro E Mini PC

On June 9, Dell listed a new Dell Pro Micro E mini PC on JD.com. The system is powered by an AMD Ryzen 5 150 processor and comes with 8GB of RAM and a 512GB SSD, priced at RMB 4,279. The device features a compact 1.2L chassis. For I/O, the front panel includes one USB-A 3.2 port and one USB-C 3.2 port, while the rear panel provides one RJ45 Ethernet port, two USB-A 2.0 ports, two USB-A 3.2 ports, one HDMI 2.1 port, and one DisplayPort 1.4a port. Source

Beelink ME Pro 13500H Goes on Sale

On June 8, Beelink announced the launch of the ME Pro NAS-oriented mini PC powered by an Intel Core i5-13500H processor. The barebones version (without storage) is priced at RMB 2,569. The i5-13500H edition of the ME Pro features a 2+4 drive-bay configuration, offering two 3.5-inch SATA drive bays and four M.2 SSD slots, including one PCIe Gen4×4 slot and three PCIe Gen3×2 slots. It is equipped with two DDR4 SO-DIMM memory slots. The system uses a unibody metal chassis, with a fabric-covered front panel and a magnetic MESH rear panel. Internally, it adopts a DIY-friendly drawer-style design that supports motherboard replacement. Cooling is handled by a vapor chamber and a turbo fan, while storage drives benefit from silicone and aluminum mounting brackets (for 3.5-inch drives only) to assist with heat dissipation. Networking is powered by a MediaTek MT7920 wireless card supporting Wi-Fi 6 and Bluetooth 5.4. Connectivity includes three 10Gbps USB-A ports (one front, two rear), one 40Gbps USB-C port, one 10GbE RJ45 port, one 2.5GbE RJ45 port, one HDMI 2.1 TMDS port, and one 3.5mm audio jack. Source

News Worth a Quick Look

During the Nintendo Direct presentation held on June 9, Nintendo shared the latest updates on multiple first-party and third-party titles. Among the announcements, a remake of The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time was officially revealed and confirmed for release later this year, while Kingdom Hearts IV was formally unveiled and confirmed to launch on the Nintendo Switch platform from day one. Source
Pebble founder Eric Migicovsky has confirmed that the Pebble Round 2 smartwatch will begin shipping in July, with all pre-orders expected to be fulfilled before September. Announced in January, the Pebble Round 2 is a revival of the lightweight, round-faced Pebble Round smartwatch. Priced at $199, it features updated hardware, slimmer bezels, and optional black or brown leather straps. The shipping schedule follows the broad rollout of the Pebble Time 2, which has already reached most pre-order customers. Meanwhile, the Pebble Index smart ring still has no confirmed shipping date. Source
Meta has removed code related to NameTag, an unreleased facial recognition system, from the latest version of the Meta AI app. Earlier, WIRED reported that the system had already been embedded in the Meta AI app, which is installed on more than 50 million devices. Designed for Meta smart glasses, NameTag was originally intended to convert faces captured by the glasses into unique biometric signatures known as faceprints and compare them against a facial database stored locally on a user’s device. Faces that could not be identified would be cropped, indexed, and stored locally for future processing. Source