CUPERTINO, Calif. -- Apple on Monday unveiled expanded artificial-intelligence capabilities and a new design interface across all of its products, marking the tech giants latest round of updates as it aims to compete in the high-stakes AI race.

A fresh operating system called iOS 26 will deliver new user features such as real-time language translation in iMessages and image identification, Apple said at the Worldwide Developers Conference, or WWDC, hosted at the company's headquarters in Cupertino, California.

The operating system marks the first design update to be identified based on the year in which it will be released in this case, iOS 26 rather than the number of updates the company has issued for a given product. The new approach will allow the company to standardize its inte

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