Sources describe Apple’s efforts to fully automate iPhone assembly lines, helping it reduce its reliance on China, including by buying startups like DarwinAI (Wayne Ma/The Information)

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Sources describe Apple's efforts to fully automate iPhone assembly lines, helping it reduce its reliance on China, including by buying startups like DarwinAI  —  It was the kind of incident Apple executives never want to repeat.  In November 2022, at a factory in Zhengzhou, China …