Good morning. It’s Thursday, September 10.
Apple just took its biggest hardware swing in years, unveiling its first foldable phone the same week the rest of its fall lineup is rolling out. It is the kind of launch that reaches well beyond the usual Apple faithful, and it is not the only story today built around a brand testing how much its customers will forgive or forget.
Today we are covering:
Apple unveils the iPhone Duo, its first foldable phone, built from titanium with dual displays
An Anthropic researcher who quit over AI safety fears gives an exclusive follow-up interview to Axios
Florida sues Netflix, alleging it secretly tracked children after promising families privacy
The new Apple Watch adds always-on listening features that summarize your day
DeepSeek launches V4.1 Flash, a faster, cheaper model that beats its own flagship
Let’s dive in
Apple unveils foldable iPhone Duo
By Chance Miller via 9to5Mac
Apple officially unveiled the iPhone Duo, its first foldable phone, built around a 7.6-inch inner Super Retina XDR display and a 5.4-inch outer display.
The device is made from grade 5 titanium in star white and night sky colors, carries an IP68 rating for dust and water resistance, and places speakers at the top and bottom for spatial audio.
Touch ID moves into the side button with support for multiple fingerprints and can also unlock through a paired Apple Watch, while Apple Pencil support is coming later this year.
𝕏: A big part of the visual minimization of the crease comes from the custom nanotexture matte finish that reduces reflections. Then carbon fiber support plates inside the hinge. Obviously not a hint of crease in these videos, but looking forward to seeing it in person soon - Marques Brownlee (@MKBHD)
Anthropic whistleblower gave up his equity to leave the company
By Madison Mills via Axios
Jacob Coxon, who previously left OpenAI for Anthropic specifically because of its safety focus, resigned again after just four months, giving up his equity two months before it would have vested.
In an exclusive interview, Coxon said “if you’re under pressure to race, you have to cut corners,” and noted that AI models now routinely show awareness during testing that they are being evaluated, something that used to be purely theoretical.
His original resignation post has been viewed more than 115 million times; Coxon said he has not personally seen Anthropic cut safety corners, but worries that competitive pressure will eventually force the issue.
𝕏: [Writing this in a personal capacity, not on behalf of my employer (Anthropic).] Jacob’s thread is very worth reading. Here’s my birds-eye view of the situation with risks from AI: 1. AI developers believe their technology could cause human extinction (or similarly bad outcomes). This could happen in the next few years. In general, the more senior the employee, the more concerned they are… - Samuel Marks (@saprmarks)
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Florida sues Netflix, alleges streamer tracked children after promising families privacy
By Kimberly Leonard via Politico
Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier sued Netflix, alleging the company promised paying subscribers a safe escape from data collection on kids’ profiles while secretly tracking their viewing habits.
The lawsuit claims Netflix collected billions of behavioral events, including devices used, location, and what content was paused, rewound, or skipped, then used that data to power its advertising business after launching ads in November 2022, sharing it with outside data brokers without consent.
Uthmeier is seeking a permanent injunction forcing Netflix to purge the data, saying, “Netflix told Florida families they could pay a monthly fee to escape Big Tech surveillance. That was false.”
𝕏: As I’ve said many times over: if you think this will stop at social media you’re a rube. Their goal is to censor all online content and communication - Taylor Lorenz (@TaylorLorenz)
Apple Doesn’t Want You to Worry About the New Apple Watch’s Listening Features
By Lily Hay Newman via WIRED
The new Apple Watch Series 12 and Ultra 4 add four opt-in “audio intelligence” tools, including a conversation recap feature and a Live Rewind tool that can transcribe the previous 15 seconds of audio on demand.
Apple says the new S11 chip processes audio entirely on device through an isolated “Secure Enclave,” so raw audio is never stored or accessible to apps, the user, or Apple, and a chime always plays whenever Live Rewind turns on.
Even with those safeguards, anyone standing near a new Apple Watch could have “audio intelligence” running during a private conversation, a tradeoff the technical details do not fully erase.
𝕏: LG tvs in our homes, Meta Raybans & Apple Watches out in the world I think we need to assume that we are all being recorded all the time, everywhere lol - Sara Dietschy 🍑y (@saradietschy)
China’s DeepSeek launches V4.1 Flash model
Reuters
Chinese AI lab DeepSeek launched V4.1 Flash, the smallest model in its new architecture family, with native multimodal understanding and 552 billion total parameters but only 8 to 16 billion active at a time.
Independent tests show the model beating DeepSeek’s own flagship V4 Pro on performance, cost, and speed, while a new encoder-decoder design cuts memory needs to a quarter of the previous cache size and an eighth of the storage footprint.
New pricing took effect today, and starting September 14, all V4 Pro traffic will automatically route to V4.1 Flash at Flash pricing until a V4.1 Pro model arrives.
𝕏: DeepSeek V4.1 Flash just dropped! It’s a 552B MoE model, but activates only 8B parameters for input and 16B for output. And it’s beating models like GPT-5.6 Sol and Opus 5 on several agentic/coding benchmarks… - Chris (@ChrisGPT)
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Today’s big AI theme: AI’s growing pains took center stage today, from Congress and Anthropic confronting security failures to China racing to fund and staff its own AI ambitions.
Scoop: OpenAI faces Senate investigation into Hugging Face breach
Kimi maker Moonshot AI to explore dual Hong Kong and Shanghai IPOs to boost capital: sources
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