🧠 One more for ChatGPT

OpenAI has rolled out ChatGPT Images 2.5, making image generation up to 50% faster and improving accuracy with reference images and targeted edits.

The model also holds up better across longer editing sessions.

What else is new:

↖️ https://durovscode.com/openai-chatgpt-images-2-5-image-generation

🛸 Windows, ready for developers

Microsoft has introduced Project Zenith, a preconfigured Windows 11 setup for developer PCs, with coding tools and support for running AI models locally already built in.

It will ship on high-end machines from OEM partners, reducing the setup usually needed before developers can start working.

What’s included:

↖️ https://durovscode.com/microsoft-project-zenith-windows-11-developers

📱 Straight to No. 2

Analysts expect Apple’s first foldable iPhone to become the world’s No. 2 foldable in its debut year, capturing around 25% of the market, with Samsung still in first place.

↖️ https://durovscode.com/apple-foldable-iphone-market-share-2026

😾 Spoilers ahead

Mark Gurman has backed up several of the biggest rumors ahead of Apple’s event, including that the foldable iPhone is apparently called iPhone Duo after all, along with new details on the iPhone 18 Pro lineup and the base iPhone 18 reportedly not arriving until at least spring.

There’s also fresh information on the Apple Watch Series 12, Apple Watch Ultra 4 and AirPods 5.

We’ve pulled together the 20 key details before the event starts at 9:00 p.m. GST:

↖️ https://durovscode.com/apple-event-2026-what-apple-will-announce

🍏 iPhone 18 Pro starts at $1,199

Apple has announced the iPhone 18 Pro and iPhone 18 Pro Max, starting at $1,199 and $1,299 respectively, both with 256GB of storage.

The lineup comes in Deep Black, Silver, Glacier and Burgundy, with sales starting September 18.

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🎧 AirPods 5 add live translation

Apple has announced AirPods 5 with real-time translation, improved Active Noise Cancellation and up to 5 hours of listening with ANC enabled.

They’re priced at $129, with preorders open today and availability from September 18.

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⚡️ Apple unveils iPhone Duo

Apple has introduced the iPhone Duo, its first foldable iPhone, with a 7.6-inch inner display and 5.4-inch outer screen. Apple says it’s the thinnest iPhone yet and has the largest display ever used on an iPhone.

It comes in Star White and Night Sky, supports Split View multitasking, and uses Touch ID in the side button instead of Face ID. Apple Pencil support is coming later this year.

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😾 iPhone Duo starts at $1,999

Apple’s first foldable iPhone is priced at $1,999 for 256GB.

Preorders open October 16, with availability beginning October 23.

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🍏 And that’s a wrap

Apple’s new lineup includes the iPhone Duo, iPhone 18 Pro and Pro Max, AirPods 5, Apple Watch Series 12 and Ultra 4, along with the A20 Pro, new camera features, iOS 27 updates and new pricing.

Everything Apple announced, in one place:

↖️ https://durovscode.com/apple-event-2026-all-announcements

🙂 Not exactly lightweight

Experts found that the iPhone Duo is heavier than rival foldables, drops the Action Button and comes with water resistance that may weaken over time.

What Apple left out of the presentation:

↖️ https://durovscode.com/iphone-duo-weight-thickness-action-button-ip68

😽 Not much time left

Anthropic researcher Jacob Coxon has left the company, warning that the race to build self-improving AI could eventually push the technology beyond human control and pose an existential threat.

He says the risk could become real before the end of the decade.

What the researcher is warning about:

↖️ https://durovscode.com/anthropic-researcher-self-improving-ai-risks

🧠 Cheaper, faster, bigger

DeepSeek has unveiled V4.1 Flash, a 552-billion-parameter AI model that already outperformed the flagship V4 Pro in coding and agent benchmarks.

The company also cut memory demands by 4× and slashed off-peak API pricing by 50%:

↖️ https://durovscode.com/deepseek-v4-1-flash-ai-model-api-pricing

☕️ Better late than never

Nearly six months after macOS, Google has launched an official Gemini app for Windows.

↖️ https://durovscode.com/google-gemini-app-for-windows

💅 Too popular for Pro

Demand for GPT-6 Astra has surged enough that OpenAI has temporarily paused new $200-a-month ChatGPT Pro subscriptions to ease pressure on its infrastructure.

Existing Pro users are unaffected, and other plans remain available.

Who’s affected — and how to still get Astra:

↖️ https://durovscode.com/openai-chatgpt-pro-subscriptions-paused

❤️ This weekend in #TECH

📌 Anthropic is reportedly in talks to bring Nvidia in as an anchor investor in its IPO, with Nvidia considering an investment of up to $10 billion.

📌 Apple is developing two Beats-branded gaming controllers for iPhone, and a new Apple TV is expected this fall.

📌 Researchers found a hidden cross-account channel in ChatGPT that could be used to access connected services such as Gmail.

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🤐 Time to slow down

Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei says his push to slow advanced AI runs into geopolitics, with rivals, especially China, unlikely to accept limits if faster progress offers a military advantage.

The warning follows his call to slow frontier model development over catastrophic-risk concerns.

↖️ https://durovscode.com/anthropic-dario-amodei-china-ai-slowdown

🤔 Worth the fold?

Apple is the last major player into the wide-format foldable market, after Huawei, Samsung and Xiaomi all launched their own models first.

We compared all four to see where the iPhone Duo wins, where it falls short — and whether it’s actually worth buying:

↖️ https://durovscode.com/iphone-duo-vs-foldable-phones-comparison

😄 Not quite private

A researcher found that even Android’s strict “Block connections without VPN” setting may still leak a user’s real IP address.

Any app with basic internet access can use a standard system mechanism to send keepalive packets outside the VPN tunnel.

How the flaw works — and which devices may be affected:

↖️ https://durovscode.com/android-vpn-bypass-real-ip-address-leak

🤔 OpenAI gets camera-ready

OpenAI reportedly bought Glass Imaging, a camera startup founded by former Apple engineers, in a deal valuing it above $300 million.

The obvious question is whether its technology ends up in OpenAI’s first device with Jony Ive.

What’s known so far:

↖️ https://durovscode.com/openai-glass-imaging-acquisition

🧠 Automating your finances

An unreleased Money tab spotted in Claude’s iOS app would let users connect bank accounts and ask the AI about spending and financial plans.

Anthropic has not announced the feature.

↖️ https://durovscode.com/claude-money-bank-account-linking