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The sold-out foldable iPhone Sep 11, 2026·Emil Protalinski After years of rumors, Apple this week finally unveiled the foldable iPhone, and for some reason, called it the iPhone Duo. Will its successor be called the iPhone Duo 2, or will Apple skip the number two again? (There was no iPhone 2 as Apple went from iPhone to iPhone 3G to iPhone 3GS). It probably doesn’t matter. After all, despite the early jokes, we got used to calling Apple’s tablet the iPad.

Sep 10, 2026·Emil Protalinski 1. Apple unveiled its first foldable phone, the iPhone Duo, featuring a 5.4-inch outer display, a 7.6-inch inner display, an A20 Pro with a new display engine, and Touch ID. The iPhone Duo’s price ranges from $2,000 for 256GB to $3,200 for 2TB, it’s available in star white and night sky colors, and it starts shipping on October 23. 2.

Sep 9, 2026·Emil Protalinski Anthropic is upset with OpenAI, which is claiming innocence. Here’s the AI industry’s latest drama, and this time it involves the discipline of mathematics. It all started when OpenAI announced that an internal model “significantly more capable than GPT-6 Astra” solved the Navier–Stokes Millennium Prize Problem using 10,000 concurrent agents working for 88 hours, plus an additional 17 hours for lean formalization and verification via GPT‑6 Astra.

Happy Labo(u)r Day! On August 6 at Ai4 2026, I moderated two panels. In the first one, Simulating Reality: The Business Value of World Models, I led a discussion with Netradyne CTO Sreekanth Annapureddy, Vinci CEO Hardik Kabaria, and Niantic Spatial CEO Inhi Cho Suh. You can now watch this world models panel in full on YouTube. For those who prefer to read and skim, below is the full transcript. Emil: Today you're going to hear about what world models are.