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Apple raises iPhone prices by $100 on all of the older models it is offering, including the iPhone 16, the iPhone 17 lineup, as well as the iPhone Air

The price increase impacts the iPhone 16, the full iPhone 17 lineup, as well as the iPhone Air.

The Verge: Hands-on with the iPhone Duo: the folding mechanism is smooth, the crease is almost impossible to find with a finger, and the inner screen has a matte finish

Dominic Preston / The Verge: The iPhone Duo starts at $1,999 for 256GB, with a 2TB model costing $3,199, in star white and night sky colors; preorders start Oct. 16, and sales begin Oct. 23

Terrence O'Brien / The Verge: iPhone Duo supports Apple Pencil and comes with iOS redesigned for multitasking on different screen sizes/orientations, with auto-adjusting controls and apps

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Wall Street Journal ·

· 17 sources

Anthropic details distillation efforts by Chinese companies, like Moonshot and DeepSeek, sending user queries to Claude via "transfer stations" outside China

Anthropic says DeepSeek and Moonshot used thousands of fake accounts and millions of real user queries in 'distillation' effort to clone its AI capabilities

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Dustin Volz / New York Times: Anthropic says it disrupted several potential plots this year by scientists using its models for research that could have helped develop biological weapons

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Reuters ·

· 9 sources

DeepSeek debuts DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash, its smallest model built on its new Causal Encoder-Decoder architecture, with 552B backbone parameters and 1M-token context

Chinese artificial intelligence startup DeepSeek on Thursday launched DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash, which the company said is the smallest model …

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Maxwell Zeff / Wired ·

· 13 sources

Q&A with AI researcher Jacob Coxon, who quit Anthropic, on the need for industry-wide, international coordination to limit recursive self-improvement, and more

Jacob Coxon talks to WIRED about the "mini Manhattan project" inside Anthropic, the problem with alignment …

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Samantha Cole / 404 Media ·

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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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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 …

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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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Supreeth Koundinya / AIM ·

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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 …

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Lily Hay Newman / Wired ·

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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: Apple announces two AirPods 5 models with ANC that removes up to 50% more noise than AirPods 4, for $129 or $149 with a wireless charging case

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Tibo / @thsottiaux ·

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OpenAI says it will pause new $200/month ChatGPT Pro subscriptions amid "unprecedented" Astra demand; existing accounts, other plans, and API are unaffected

To make sure our current users have an incredible experience and continued access to Astra, we are going to pause subscriptions to our $200 Pro plan. These put the most strain on our systems and we wanted to take the smallest step that allows us to continue giving the broadest access possible. All ...

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