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| Chance Miller / 9to5Mac: |
Apple unveils its first foldable phone, the iPhone Duo, with a 5.4-inch outer and a 7.6-inch inner display, an A20 Pro with a new display engine, and Touch ID — Apple has officially unveiled the highly anticipated foldable iPhone, and it's called iPhone Duo. Here's everything you need to know.
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| Terrence O'Brien / The Verge: |
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| Madison Mills / Axios: |
AI researcher Jacob Coxon says he quit Anthropic after four months, two months before his equity would have vested; he still has equity in prior employer OpenAI — Anthropic researcher Jacob Coxon quit his job due to concerns about the safety of AI two months before his equity would have vested, he told Axios.
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| Amrith Ramkumar / Wall Street Journal: |
Anthropic researcher Jacob Coxon says he is quitting the AI industry over fears that tech companies are racing to build systems they won't be able to control — Concerns are rising inside AI labs that competition is pushing tech companies to race toward self-improving models that risk spiraling out of human control
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| Reed Albergotti / Semafor: |
Source: Meta AI researcher Andrew Tulloch, who came over from Thinking Machine Lab as one of the highest paid employees last year, is leaving the company — Meta AI researcher Andrew Tulloch, who gained attention for being one of the highest paid employees in tech industry, is leaving the company …
More: Wall Street Journal, Gizmodo, and Implicator.ai
| Samantha Cole / 404 Media: |
Slack messages: Automattic CEO Matt Mullenweg says he has been put on paid leave after CFO Mark Davies “conspired” with board members and was voted interim CEO — Mullenweg, co-founder of Wordpress, wrote in a company-wide Slack channel on Wednesday that board members “conspired” …
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| Anthropic: |
Anthropic details four incidents where Claude gained unauthorized access to third-party systems, including a new Opus 4.6 case; METR will investigate them — We present an alignment assessment of four incidents in which Claude models gained unauthorized access to real third-party systems.
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| Reuters: |
Researchers: OpenAI's agents used 10+ previously undisclosed sites for unsanctioned communications earlier in 2026; the behavior was closer to spam than hacking — AI agents unleashed by OpenAI used more than 10 previously undisclosed websites for unsanctioned communications earlier this year … | Jay Peters / The Verge: |
Apple announces the iPhone 18 Pro and iPhone 18 Pro Max, with a similar design to 17 Pro and a new A20 Pro chip, in deep black, silver, glacier, and burgundy — The iPhone 18 Pro and 18 Pro Max have powerful new camera features. … Apple announced the iPhone 18 Pro and iPhone 18 Pro Max at its event on Wednesday.
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Apple unveils a new Health app with Apple Intelligence, featuring an Insights tab, “readiness” and Health Age metrics, and more, rolling out later in 2026 — Alongside the new Apple Watch Series 12 and Ultra 4, Apple on Wednesday introduced a redesigned Apple Health app …
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| Lily Hay Newman / Wired: |
New opt-in Apple Watch Siri audio features can listen to and transcribe conversations all day; Apple says raw audio is inaccessible and deleted after processing — The new Apple Watch includes several “intelligent” listening features that have privacy and security baked in.
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| Ryan Christoffel / 9to5Mac: |
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| Zac Hall / 9to5Mac: |
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LinkedIn: Ismene Grohmann, Liv Markham, Ru W., and Lance Lin
Forums: r/apple and r/technology
| Hartley Charlton / MacRumors: |
Apple unveils AppleCare One Family, extending AppleCare coverage to every eligible device in an Apple Family Sharing group of up to 6 people for $49.99/month — Apple today announced AppleCare One Family, a new option for U.S. customers that extends AppleCare coverage to every eligible device across …
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| Tim Fernholz / TechCrunch: |
Paul Christiano, an AI researcher and advisor at CAISI, is joining the OpenAI Foundation board of directors and its Safety and Security Committee — Paul Christiano, an influential AI researcher focused on keeping AI systems aligned with human interests and under human control …
More: Bloomberg, OpenAI, Business Insider, Blockchain.News, The Information, and Axios. X: @paulfchristiano
| Scott Horsley / NPR: |
Anthropic releases an interactive tool that lets users explore how AI might affect US economic growth, jobs, wages, and more by 2030 — Will artificial intelligence light a fire under the U.S. economy in the coming years? That's been a big question in the field of economics, and now Anthropic …
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| Lauren Goode / Wired: |
Kepler Computing, which claims its 3D stacking and new material can increase HBM and SRAM density without relying on EUV, emerges from stealth with $468M — Kepler Computing claims a new approach to chip design—and a proprietary material—can help end the supply bottlenecks that have sent memory prices surging.
X: @laurengoode
| Jason Shubnell / The Block: |
Consensys plans to split into two companies: MetaMask, with Joe Lubin as CEO, and a new Consensys focused on Ethereum and institutional infrastructure — - Consensys Software Inc. will split into two independently operated companies, separating its consumer-facing MetaMask business …
More: MetaMask, Fortune, Bitcoin Insider, Unchained, and Blockchain.News
X: @metamask and @consensys
| The Information: |
Sources: Jeffrey Katzenberg, ex-OpenAI Sora head Bill Peebles, and ex-Dropbox CFO Sujay Jaswa plan to launch a startup to train AI video models for filmmakers — Hollywood mogul Jeffrey Katzenberg is teaming up with the former head of OpenAI's Sora app to launch a new AI startup that would train … | Tim De Chant / TechCrunch: |
Massachusetts Gov. Maura Healey signs an EO requiring data centers above 25MW of peak demand to bring their own power and meet 100% of demand with clean energy — Massachusetts became the latest state to force data centers to bring their own power, but this time there's a twist.
Forums: r/UpliftingNews
| Mikella Schuettler / Associated Press: |
New Mexico, the only US state taking the Cambridge Analytica case to trial, accused Meta of failing to protect Facebook user data in its opening statements — Attorneys representing the state of New Mexico told jurors that targeted political ads, attempting to lower Democratic turnout during …
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| Supreeth Koundinya / AIM: |
Tailwind Labs, the company behind Tailwind CSS, is joining Shopify; in January, it laid off three of four engineers, citing AI's impact on documentation traffic — Tailwind Labs, the company behind the Tailwind CSS web-development framework, is joining Shopify, with the team moving under …
More: Tailwind CSS, PYMNTS, RuntimeWire, and Seeking Alpha
| New York Times: |
Sources: DOJ is investigating whether Nvidia tried to skirt antitrust scrutiny of its 2025 Groq deal, described by Groq as a “nonexclusive licensing agreement” — The Justice Department is examining whether the tech giant sought to sidestep antitrust scrutiny.| Hartley Charlton / MacRumors: |
Apple unveils the 2nm A20 Pro, featuring a 6-core CPU with two “desktop class” super cores, a 7-core GPU up to 40% faster, and 32 Neural Engine cores in total — Apple today revealed the A20 Pro chip in the iPhone 18 Pro and iPhone 18 Pro Max, built on a brand new architecture using 2nm process technology.
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Forums: r/hardware and MacRumors Forums
| Christine Mui / Politico: |
California Gov. Gavin Newsom signs into law two bills, backed by Anthropic and OpenAI, regulating how outside groups evaluate AI for safety — SAN FRANCISCO — California Gov. Gavin Newsom on Wednesday signed two bills regulating how outside groups evaluate AI programs for safety after warnings … | Kimberly Leonard / Politico: |
Florida AG sues Netflix, alleging it misleads parents about how it collects data on minors and harms children with features that lead to binge watching — MIAMI — Florida officials on Wednesday sued streaming giant Netflix, alleging it misleads parents about how it collects data on minors … Sponsor Posts
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