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October 26, 2026, 6:00 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 companies, 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 …
Bloomberg:
Alphabet, Amazon, and Microsoft are expected to report double-digit gains in revenue this week, as investors grow impatient with AI capex and seek returns  —  Three of the biggest and most important technology companies in the world are expected to show healthy growth when they report earnings this week.
Derrick Bryson Taylor / New York Times:
Elvis Presley's rightsholders sue Anthropic over 274 songs allegedly used to train its models, seeking $41M+; Anthropic says it disagrees and will defend itself  —  The $41 million lawsuit contends that the A.I. company used Presley's music to train its models without permission.
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 …
More: The Decoder
Johnny Rodgers / Building Slack:
Inside Slack's Salesforce culture clash: Benioff had ~1 hour with CEO Butterfield pre-deal and didn't use Slack; Butterfield quit after a Davos celebrity panel  —  I needed a keyboard.  —  I stood at my reserved desk on the 7th floor of Salesforce's tower in Vancouver around 9am.
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
Alexandra Alter / New York Times:
A profile of former Google VP and Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer, whose startup Dazzle is building an AI assistant to help non-tech enthusiasts with mundane tasks  —  Marissa Mayer has reinvented herself as a start-up founder, with a team of 10 engineers — a fraction of the armies of programmers …
New York Times:
A look at TSMC's initial Phoenix fab, which has achieved chip output rates comparable to its Taiwan facilities, as its Taiwanese engineers teach US workers  —  On July 5 the Northwest Chinese Baptist Church in Phoenix opened its weekly Mandarin service with a verse from the Old Testament.
Ananta Agarwal / Nikkei Asia:
India's chip design startups near production with government support, but low volumes, high fab costs, and supply chain bottlenecks hinder commercialization  —  BENGALURU — Propelled by government support, India's chip design startups are nearing commercial production …

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