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Apple announced the iPhone Duo at its “Surprise and shine” event on September 9, 2026. The company’s first foldable iPhone measures 7.6 inches open and 5.4 inches closed, and it starts at $1,999. That much is on every tech site today. The more interesting part is this: Apple squeezed the whole thing into 5.2 mm when open, and to get there it gave up Face ID, the SIM tray and the single-piece battery. This piece is less about the price list and more about how those trades were made. ...

Meta shipped Muse Spark 1.3 on September 2, 2026: a closed multimodal reasoning model built for long-running agentic workflows, multi-agent setups and coding. Two numbers made the headlines. It scores 75.4 on DeepSWE v1.1, edging past Claude Opus 5, and it hits 98.1% retrieval across a full million tokens of context. Both are real. Both come with a footnote, and the footnotes are what this post is about. What Is Muse Spark 1.3? 🧠 Muse Spark is Meta Superintelligence Labs’ closed flagship series. Version 1.3 succeeds 1.2, and the pitch is not producing one good answer but carrying a long task all the way to the end. ...

Summary: ChatGPT Images 2.5 in 30 Seconds OpenAI announced ChatGPT Images 2.5 on 8 September 2026. Sharper detail, more precise editing, faster generation. Generation latency is down by up to 50% compared with Images 2.0. Sketch is new: draw inside ChatGPT and use the drawing as the reference for the final image. Type @Sketch to open it. Also new: templates for popular formats, comments placed on the image itself for focused edits, and the option to share the prompt alongside the image. Rolling out to all ChatGPT, ChatGPT Work and Codex users, on every plan, across desktop, mobile and web. Two new API models: GPT-Image-2.5 Flare (the fast default) and GPT-Image-2.5 Sunburst (slower, more precise). OpenAI says more than 3 billion images a week are already created across ChatGPT Images and the GPT-Image models in the API. Whatever else Images 2.5 is, it is an update to one of the most heavily used products the company ships. ...

Summary: Grok 4.7 in 30 Seconds Grok 4.7 is not out. As of 13 September 2026 there is no SpaceXAI announcement, model card, API model id or price for it. The newest model in production is still Grok 4.6 (12 August 2026). Musk delayed it. On 11 September he said the model needs a few more days. He gave no new date. The parameter counts and benchmark tables you will find online are invented. None of them trace back to SpaceXAI. Has Grok 4.7 Been Released? No. As of 13 September 2026, Grok 4.7 has not shipped. ...

GPT-6 Astra in 30 Seconds GPT-6 Astra is OpenAI’s new flagship, announced on September 3, 2026. The company calls it “the world’s most intelligent and aligned model”. There is no Sol/Terra/Luna split this time. The lineup is Astra and Astra Pro. API pricing is $10 per million input tokens and $50 per million output tokens: 2.5x GPT-5.6 Sol’s promotional price, and identical to Claude Fable 5.1. The scores are high but footnoted. The headline 98.6% on ARC-AGI-3 came from a custom harness; the same model scores 62.7% on the standard one. Astra is the first OpenAI model to cross the Critical cybersecurity threshold in the Preparedness Framework. Standard access refuses parts of that work outright. Rollout is staged: Daybreak enterprise customers first, then Plus, Pro, Business, Enterprise, the API and AWS. Pro, Business and Enterprise also get Astra Pro. OpenAI launched GPT-6 Astra today, September 3, 2026. At the press briefing, president Greg Brockman first conceded that AGI remains a “gray, fuzzy thing”, then went ahead anyway: “I think it’s not unreasonable to feel that we are now in the AGI era.” He closed with the same line: “Welcome to the AGI era.” ...