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September 9, 2026, 3:20 PM

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Chance Miller / 9to5Mac:
Apple announces its first foldable, the iPhone Duo, with a 5.4-inch outer display, a 7.6-inch inner display, 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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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.
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.
Jeremy Gray / PetaPixel:
iPhone 18 Pro has a faster 48MP Fusion Main camera with variable aperture that lets in ~50% more light in low-light, along with enhanced camera app controls  —  Apple has unveiled the iPhone 18 Pro and iPhone 18 Pro Max, its latest flagship slab smartphones.
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Evan Hubinger / @evanhub:
Anthropic's Alignment Science lead says there is a “>10%” chance AI could kill all humans within the next decade and is worried about recursive self-improvement  —  Jacob is correct here—we really do earnestly believe AI could kill all humans! I personally think it is >10% within the next decade. I believe Anthropic is trying its best, but we do not yet have a plan to solve alignment for superintelligence and are not clearly on track to.
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
Zac Hall / 9to5Mac:
Apple unveils the Apple Watch Series 12 and Ultra 4, with a new S11 chip, upgraded health tracking, an Audio Intelligence feature, a readiness feature, and more  —  Apple Watch Series 12 and Apple Watch Ultra 4 are official.  Apple has announced its two new Apple Watch models as part of its product event today.
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  —  Today during its iPhone 18 Pro event, Apple announced the next generation AirPods 5 with improved active noise cancellation.  Here are the details.
Financial Times:
Sources: Anthropic declined to submit Mythos 5.1 to the UK AISI for prerelease testing, prompting UK fears that US AI labs are aligning with US protectionism  —  Decision to exclude Aisi has prompted fears inside British government of protectionist shift among tech groups.
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 …
Bloomberg:
Google plans to invest €13B+ in Finland over two years, its biggest investment in Europe to date, to build three new data centers and expand an existing one  —  Alphabet Inc.'s Google is spending €13 billion ($15.1 billion) on artificial intelligence infrastructure in Finland …
Dan Goodin / Ars Technica:
Microsoft's September 2026 Patch Tuesday fixes a record ~972 vulnerabilities, taking its total flaws patched in 2026 so far to 2,760, more than double from 2025  —  Microsoft's patch for September is a doozy, with a record number of roughly 972 vulnerabilities fixed and 112 of them meeting the high critical-severity threshold.
Reuters:
The NSA, the FBI, and CISA issue a joint warning that Chinese AI companies like DeepSeek, Moonshot, and Alibaba are doing distillation “at an industrial scale”  —  The U.S. government on Tuesday accused Chinese artificial intelligence companies of maliciously copying technology …
Rebecca Torrence / Bloomberg:
Legal AI startup Harvey raised $550M co-led by Lightspeed and Diffusion at a $15.6B valuation, up from an $11B valuation when it raised $200M in March  —  Legal tech startup Harvey is now valued at $15.6 billion after raising $550 million in a new funding round aimed at powering efforts to build its own AI models.
Business Insider:
Sources: Salesforce has been in talks to buy Listen Labs, an AI-powered customer research platform for $2B; Listen Labs was valued at $500M earlier this year  —  Salesforce could be on the hunt for acquisitions to beef up its AI capabilities.  —  The software giant has recently been in talks …
Igor Bonifacic / Engadget:
Apple says iOS 27, iPadOS 27, watchOS 27, and macOS 27 Golden Gate, all with Siri AI, will be released on September 14  —  It's almost time for Siri AI.  —  The next version of iOS will arrive on Monday, September 14, Apple announced today at its fall iPhone event.

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