EU Reveals Apple Earned Less Money Last Year
In October 2025, Apple informed the European Commission that it will acquire one employee of invrs.io LLC, as well as some assets in the company. After four months of waiting, the European Commission published this information this week.
That job only appears to be Martin Schubert, according to his LinkedIn profile. Schubert founded invrs.io in 2023 to develop AI-guided design, initially focusing on optical and photonics technologies for AR/VR, data centers, and more.
“Invrs develop open sources for imaging research, providing standardized simulation challenges and a public leaderboard for benchmarking and comparing design results,” reads a notice on the European Commission’s website.
Schubert’s plans could be useful for Apple Vision Pro development in the future, but it’s unclear exactly what he’s been hired to work on now. He previously worked at Alphabet’s X, on AI-powered graphics, and Meta.
More information about invrs.io is available on GitHub.
Last month, Apple announced that it had acquired Q.ai, an Israeli startup working on AI audio technology. That was reportedly Apple’s second major acquisition, with the deal valued at around $2 billion. Apple’s biggest acquisition was the headphone brand Beats, which it bought for $3 billion in 2014. Apple Music was launched a year later, and was built on the foundation of the former Beats Music streaming service.
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