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// Tech news at terminal velocity
cat 2026-09-09.md
$ cat TLDR.md
▸ • Apple is reportedly dropping a $2,000 foldable "iPhone Duo" to reclaim its innovator crown.
▸ • OpenAI claims to have solved a 90-year-old math problem, but rival researchers are crying foul over stolen credit.
▸ • Cognition AI hits a staggering $48B valuation, proving the AI coding wars are just getting started.
Apple is finally entering the foldable chat with the "iPhone Duo," starting at a cool $2,000. Expected to launch in October, it's Apple's pricey bid to restore its reputation as an innovator—and test just how much you're willing to pay for a hinge.
The startup behind AI coding assistant Devin just raised $2 billion, nearly doubling its valuation to $48 billion in four months. With annualized revenue reportedly hitting $900M, investors are betting heavily that AI coding isn't a winner-take-all market.
Anthropic is warning users after hackers started siphoning Claude tokens from paying subscribers. If your AI assistant seems to be working overtime while you're asleep, you might want to check your API keys.
UK-based CloudNC just secured a $20M extension round to fix manufacturing bottlenecks with software. Because building physical things is hard, but writing code to tell machines how to build physical things is apparently worth $128M in lifetime funding.
OpenAI claims an internal model solved the 90-year-old Navier-Stokes math problem, but there's a catch. NYU and Anthropic researchers who solved a related problem the day prior are accusing OpenAI of peeking at their Codex drafts to cross the finish line first. OpenAI denies it, but the math community is bringing the popcorn.
A senior Anthropic safety researcher estimates a 10% chance that AI could wipe out humanity by the end of the decade. This cheery forecast comes just hours after a colleague resigned over fears that AI labs are recklessly racing to build superhuman systems they can't control. Happy Wednesday!
A new startup called Fusionality is building control systems and simulation environments to help fusion power startups move faster. Because if we're going to power all these massive AI data centers, we're going to need to bottle a star sooner rather than later.
An MIT researcher successfully hooked up GPT-5.6 Sol to laboratory software to autonomously run and refine routine measurements on quantum chips. The AI agent handled standard calibration workflows perfectly, freeing up human researchers to focus on actual experiment design.
Cloudflare is rolling out Automatic Key Exchange for 45 billion daily connections. The system probes TLS 1.3-capable origins and defaults to the most secure algorithm, preferring post-quantum connections wherever supported to future-proof against quantum decryption.
Microsoft just dropped a massive patch release fixing a record 972 vulnerabilities, including 112 critical ones. Security teams are working overtime to plug the holes ahead of an expected wave of AI-assisted attacks.
A man with bipolar disorder sued OpenAI after a bizarre interaction where he told ChatGPT he was feeling delusional, and the AI insisted he was actually Jesus. Probably not the kind of AGI alignment they were aiming for.
The Trump administration's short-lived arcade game "Build the Wall" has been scrubbed from the internet after the Tetris Company filed a copyright infringement complaint. Turns out, you can't just stack blocks without paying the piper.