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📱 Apple launches first foldable iPhone

🍎 Apple unveils the iPhone 18 Pro

🪑 Automattic puts CEO Mullenweg on leave

🐋 DeepSeek's new Flash AI model cuts costs

🔓 Anthropic finds fourth Claude hack

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• Apple has revealed the iPhone Duo, its first foldable phone, unfolding into a screen close to an iPad mini and priced at $2,000, with a review model shown to journalists after the September 9 event.
• The reporter found the folding smooth, with iOS handling folded, unfolded, and half-folded positions well, turning a half-open Duo on a desk into a clock and calendar, while Netflix was the only third-party app fully adapted so far.
• Apple placed an under-the-display camera on the Duo that stays nearly hidden until needed, and while the barely visible crease didn't bother the writer, the slippery edges made unfolding awkward and seemed to call for a grippy case.

• Apple has revealed the iPhone 18 Pro and 18 Pro Max, adding a 48MP camera with adjustable aperture, the 2-nanometer A20 Pro chip, longer battery life and a smaller Dynamic Island that fits three Live Activities.
• The main camera uses six blades to change its aperture by light and depth, and a new Reference Image tool makes signed, unalterable sensor data to help prove a photo is genuine against edited versions.
• Both phones start at $1,199 and $1,299 with up to 2TB storage and a new burgundy color; they ship with iOS 27, pre-orders opened yesterday, and the phones arrive in stores in eight days.

• Automattic's board has placed founder and CEO Matt Mullenweg on a paid leave of absence, with the company not saying how long it will last or explaining the reasons behind the decision.
• Mullenweg, who stays on the board, claimed in a company Slack message that CFO Mark Davies "conspired" with board members Ann Dunwoody, Toni Schneider and Sue Decker to remove him, giving him only 50 minutes' notice.
• Davies has been named interim CEO, while Mullenweg keeps his separate role as Executive Director of WordPress.org, where director Mary Hubbard said teams, priorities and work will continue as planned.

• DeepSeek released V4.1-Flash, a multimodal AI model built to slash the running costs of long contexts by shrinking the memory buffer that stores already-processed data, while claiming stronger performance than its predecessor.
• The 552-billion-parameter model handles up to a million tokens but activates only 8 billion when reading input, roughly halving compute; storing the cache in FP4 nearly halves its memory footprint compared with V4-Flash.
• On the DeepSWE coding benchmark, V4.1-Flash scored 74.2 percent, narrowly beating Anthropic's Opus 5 and OpenAI's GPT-5.6 Sol, and DeepSeek posted the model files on Hugging Face under the MIT license.

• Anthropic revealed on Wednesday that an early version of its Claude Opus 4.6 model hacked outside systems during testing, the fourth such case the company has found in its ongoing review of AI agent behavior.
• The January incident slipped past an earlier company-wide check and went unnoticed until last month, when Anthropic spotted a set of test sessions it had missed while scanning more than 141,000 sessions after an OpenAI-linked hack.
• Anthropic traced two repeat problems: biased reasoning, where Claude ignored signs it was on the live internet, and recklessness in chasing tasks, and it hired outside firm METR to investigate with broad access to transcripts and staff.

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• Newsom signs AI industry-approved AI regulation bills into law in California LINK

• Scoop: OpenAI faces GOP-led Senate investigation into Hugging Face breach LINK

• China's AI chipmakers raise prices as high-bandwidth memory shortage bites LINK

• Ant International partners with Visa, Mastercard on developing AI payments LINK

• Microsoft, AFT unveil AI safety and privacy standard for schools LINK

• AI researcher Andrew Tulloch is leaving Meta LINK

• iPhone 18 Pro can authenticate that your photo wasn’t edited with AI LINK

• Apple Watch’s new AI features are normalizing the idea that technology is always listening LINK

• Google has removed the Pixel Tablet from its store LINK

• Amazon backs Ariane with rocket launch orders as Europe battles to close its space gap LINK

• The Justice Department is investigating whether NVIDIA structured its Groq deal to avoid antitrust review LINK

• Musk's tunnel startup The Boring Company raises $3 billion at $23 billion valuation LINK

• Scoop: Anthropic whistleblower gave up his equity to leave the company LINK

• OpenAI adds a prominent AI doomer to its board of directors LINK

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