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.

A look at OpenAI's and Anthropic's aggressive price cuts between June and October, driven by low switching costs and heavy competition from open-weight models  —  Let's look at a quick timeline of the major LLM model announcements from both OpenAI and Anthropic over the past few months.

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...

Meta plans to raise $95B to finance its AI expansion, including a $35B underwritten equity offering, backed by cornerstone investors Nvidia, AMD, and Broadcom  —  Chipmakers Nvidia, AMD and Broadcom will act as cornerstone investors  —  Meta is planning to raise $95bn in a stock offering …

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.

Modern AI panic reflects “cognitive mercantilism”, a zero-sum worldview where intelligence is hoarded as a scarce supply-side commodity managed by elites  —  AI panic weirdly resembles the anxiety that accompanied early capitalism  —  I've been reading Joyce Appleby's The Relentless Revolution …

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.

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.

Cathedral, a months-old cybersecurity startup founded by ex-DOGE staffers, says it breached Anthropic's internal systems in under 12 hours using AI agents  —  The start-up firm Cathedral has told makers of the Claude chatbot that its researchers were able to quickly penetrate sensitive systems, a report reviewed by The Post shows.

California startups have raised a record $385B across seed to growth rounds so far in 2026, or 75%+ of all US startup funding; early and seed stage raised ~$62B  —  California companies have scooped up more than three-fourths of all U.S. startup funding this year.  That, per Crunchbase data, is an apparent record share.

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 …

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.