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The Real Reason Apple’s Foldable Leak Complaint Doesn’t Add Up
Who Is Copying Whom? Fact-Checking Apple's Foldable Leak Narrative 1. A Regret That Sparked Controversy In September 2026, after Apple released its first foldable phone, the iPhone Duo, new CEO John Ternus and Senior Vice President of Worldwide Marketing Greg Joswiak gave a podcast interview. Joswiak said the outside world had already learned through leaks that Apple was developing a foldable phone. "Unfortunately, they also got the screen ratio," he said. After that, many manufacturers "coincidentally" became interested in the same ratio.
By Jin4 days ago in 01
The AI Brake Job: Why Anthropic, OpenAI, and Elon Musk Are All Suddenly Saying “Slow Down”
The truth about slowing down On September 12, 2026, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei published a blog post titled “We Must Slow Down the Frontier.”
By Jin4 days ago in 01
How Shaan Arora bootstrapped Alia and sold it for up to $60 million without venture capital
Shaan Arora was 24 when he sold his software company for up to $60 million , and he did it without ever taking a dollar of venture capital . That last part is the detail most founders cannot get past. The usual path in technology runs through pitch decks, seed rounds, and a cap table full of investors long before a product finds real customers. Arora skipped all of it. He and his co-founders started Alia (Alia Software, Inc.) from his parents' home, charged their first merchants about $20 a month, and won those early accounts one cold message at a time. Three years later, the London listed Dotdigital Group plc bought the company.
By Vipan K.4 days ago in 01
25 Fields Medalists Just Declared War on AI. Mathematics May Never Be the Same.
Is AI destroying mathematics? The fury of 25 Fields Medalists and the crisis of mathematical subjectivity September 8: OpenAI announced that the Navier-Stokes equations had been solved. September 11: 25 Fields Medalists published a joint protest. September 12: News emerged that OpenAI was attempting the Riemann Hypothesis and P vs NP.
By Jin5 days ago in 01
He Left OpenAI and Anthropic Because They’re Betting Your Life on AI
Betting the Fate of All Humanity 1 On September 8, 2026, a 27-year-old Briton posted a tweet on X. His name was Jacob Coxon. Over the previous three years, he had done model pretraining at OpenAI and then Anthropic, and he was one of the core contributors to the GPT-4o system card. Earlier this year, he left OpenAI for Anthropic because he identified with Anthropic's reputation for safety. Four months later, he resigned. Not just leaving Anthropic, but leaving the AI industry altogether.
By Jin5 days ago in 01
You’re Still in the Loop: 10 Frontier Engineering Principles for the AI Agent Era
Frontier Engineering: Ten Principles for Software Engineers in the Age of AI Agents At eleven p.m., you are still waiting on a chat window.
By Jin5 days ago in 01
How Artificial Intelligence Is Quietly Changing the Way We Create
Most of the people used to believe that, Artificial Intelligence was a concept away from reality, a concept which only existed in Research and science fiction movies some few years back. Today it quietly lives in the apps we open our eyes to every morning. Offers alternatives to what we type as responses; can edit photos; can even edit our actual words we type. Having grown up-and-down over time. Muhammad Ali grew up slowly, adding one small feature at a time, making it part of everyday life.
By Solution Boxes6 days ago in 01
The $200 Button Went Gray: OpenAI’s Quiet Admission That AI Agents Broke the Subscription Model
The gray button on the $200 tier: why OpenAI paused Pro 20X On September 10, 2026, Thibault Sottiaux, OpenAI's VP of Product and Platform, posted a statement on X that ran under a hundred words. ChatGPT Pro's $200 tier was pausing new subscriptions and plan upgrades. The reason was restrained. He said the plan "puts the most pressure on our systems," and the company hoped to make "the smallest possible adjustment."
By Jin6 days ago in 01
The Million-Dollar Math Problem AI Didn’t Solve: A Rumor, a Fight Over Navier-Stokes, and the Trust Crisis Nobody Wants to Talk About
As of September 10, 2026, the BSD Conjecture has not been solved. Neither OpenAI nor Anthropic has released any official result on it.
By Jin6 days ago in 01
The Huawei Watch D3’s Blood Pressure Cuff Matters More Than Smartwatch Specs
The smartwatch landscape has long been trapped in a cycle of incremental one-upmanship: more sports modes, brighter screens, longer battery life, deeper water resistance. Yet for millions managing hypertension or cardiovascular risk, these enhancements remain peripheral to their primary health need. Enter the Huawei Watch D3, which sidesteps the spec-sheet arms race entirely. It doesn’t try to outdo Apple or Garmin; instead, it asks a deceptively simple question: What if a smartwatch were designed first and foremost as a blood pressure monitor? The answer is a device that sacrifices some mainstream appeal to deliver something genuinely rare: clinically validated, cuff-based blood pressure measurement on the wrist. After several days of testing, it’s clear this isn’t just another smartwatch; it’s a focused health tool that redefines what wearables can be for those who need them most.
By Mark Lim 7 days ago in 01
Invisible Infrastructure: How Teater Besar’s Wireless Revolution Freed Its Engineers to Focus on Art
In the high-stakes world of live theatre, audio failure isn’t just a technical glitch; it’s a narrative rupture. For Teater Besar, the 1,200-seat cornerstone of Jakarta’s Taman Ismail Marzuki arts complex, this reality has long defined its operational rhythm. Hosting everything from large-scale musicals to corporate panels, the venue faces a unique challenge: no two productions share identical technical demands. Each brings its own crew, stage configuration, and wireless microphone requirements, forcing the audio team to rebuild their RF environment from scratch for every event. After upgrading from analog to digital in 2018, they hit a new ceiling: as productions grew more ambitious, so did the number of wireless channels, leading to frequency clashes, bulky equipment racks, and hours spent troubleshooting interference instead of refining sound. The solution wasn’t more gear, but smarter architecture. Enter Sennheiser Spectera, the world’s first wideband, bidirectional wireless ecosystem, and with it, a fundamental shift in how Teater Besar approaches live sound.
By Mark Lim 7 days ago in 01
Zyxel Nebula 20.10: Smarter, Simpler Networking For Growing Businesses
Zyxel Networks has announced the release of Nebula 20.10 , the latest major update to its cloud‑based network management platform designed specifically to help managed service providers (MSPs) and mid‑sized businesses handle growing numbers of users, sites, and devices without being overwhelmed by administrative complexity. Unveiled September 1, the release builds on Zyxel’s decade‑long development of the Nebula ecosystem, extending its capabilities far beyond basic device configuration into identity management, advanced troubleshooting, and automated operational workflows.
By Mark Lim 7 days ago in 01