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October 26, 2026, 1:25 AM

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Elizabeth Chamberlain / iFixit News:
iPhone Duo teardown: 5/10 repairability, a foldable record, but some screens crack along the fold, possibly because a hinge support bar fails to drop far enough  —  Apple's folding iPhone finally made it to our teardown table.  Some owners' screens didn't make it through setup.
Elon Musk / @elonmusk:
Elon Musk says SpaceX closed $40B in GPU debt, debt markets have shut off credit for AI data center firms, and 200+ neoclouds face “death and consolidation”  —  Pretty much. As of the past few weeks, debt markets have almost entirely shut off access to money for any company that doesn't have substantial revenue independent of AI data centers. SpaceX closed $40B of debt for GPUs, but we're investment grade and have Starlink & launch revenue. That means...
Mark Gurman / Bloomberg:
Sources: Apple tweaked macOS for its OLED touch MacBook Pro, due Wednesday, with a dynamic interface that adapts to whether touch or the trackpad was last used  —  Also: The company rolls out a retail store tool to reduce wasted inventory.  —  Apple's touch-screen MacBook Pro will arrive on Wednesday …
Financial Times:
A look at Toyota's robotics expansion, including its Walden spinoff and a $6.4B annual plan to deploy 400K factory robots, as it competes with Tesla and China  —  Japanese group uses 20 years of research to commercialise intelligent robots  —  Toyota is setting its sights on becoming …
Tom Matsuda / Financial Times:
The iTunes Store is re-emerging as a venue for big pop stars, including Taylor Swift, to hawk collectibles to superfans and bolster their chart positions  —  Record labels and artists including Taylor Swift and Ariana Grande are using the throwback music store to bolster their chart position and cash in on their fandom
Terrence O'Brien / The Verge:
Moderators of r/opensource ban submissions of projects using, made by, or intended for AI, exclude non-English speakers over AI translation concerns, and more  —  The opensource subreddit's new rules against AI have sparked a revolt. … The post made Saturday evening opens by saying …
M.G. Siegler / Spyglass:
Amazon Bee Frontier review: a simple $75 AI wearable that excels at always-on listening, summarizing conversations, and suggesting follow-up actions  —  Amazon's quiet, listening AI wearable is also pretty killer?  —  I'm not sure people really understand what is coming with AI and wearables.
More: TheStreet.  Bluesky: @larrymilly
Hartley Charlton / MacRumors:
Instagram launches an Apple TV app for watching Reels, longer videos, and live shows; the app previously launched on Fire TV, Google TV, and Samsung smart TVs  —  Instagram is now available on the Apple TV, bringing Reels, longer videos, and live shows via the platform to Apple's streaming device for the first time.
Bloomberg:
How a Blackstone-led $2.3B private credit loan to CoreWeave in 2023 became a blueprint for chip-backed debt, which is on track to become a $1T market  —  “What is a GPU?”  Blackstone Inc. executives asked CoreWeave Inc.'s leadership.  Also: “Is AI real?”  —  These were entirely logical queries …

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