😻 The $1.5 trillion AI gap

The gap between AI spending and actual revenue has reached $1.5 trillion, according to the WSJ. Even Nvidia’s record chip sales aren’t enough to offset the scale of investment.

More on the numbers:

↖️ https://durovscode.com/ai-spending-revenue-gap-1-5-trillion

😎 One less way to track you

Android 17 will support ECH, finally closing an old privacy gap that exposed domain names when connecting to websites.

What other security updates are coming to Android 17:

↖️ https://durovscode.com/android-17-anti-tracking-privacy-protections

🤷‍♂️ What’s left to tariff?

The White House is considering sweeping new tariffs on chips and electronics, potentially pushing up prices for laptops, consoles, TVs and other devices.

What it could mean for the global tech market:

↖️ https://durovscode.com/trump-chip-electronics-tariffs

❤️ This weekend in #TECH

📌 A federal court overturned the Pentagon’s decision to blacklist Anthropic, ruling the move unconstitutional.

📌 Replacing the inner screen on Apple’s first foldable iPhone could cost more than $1,100.

📌 OpenAI is cutting off Cursor from its models after the coding platform was acquired by Elon Musk’s SpaceX.

@durovs_code

🛸 Free AI for everyone*

South Korea will give every citizen free unlimited access to generative AI — but only to homegrown models.

How it’ll work:

↖️ https://durovscode.com/south-korea-free-unlimited-ai-access

🤐 Another copyright bill

Sony Music and Warner Chappell have sued Anthropic, accusing the company of illegally downloading and using “tens of thousands” of copyrighted works to train its AI models.

Details of the case:

↖️ https://durovscode.com/sony-music-warner-chappell-sue-anthropic-ai-training

🎧 AirPods are getting eyes

According to leaks, Apple is working on AirPods that could literally “see” the world around you and feed that context to Siri and Visual Intelligence.

Everything known so far — from how they’ll work to design and release timing:

↖️ https://durovscode.com/airpods-with-cameras-ai-features-release-date

😏 Not quite private

ChatGPT conversations can be used → as evidence in court and aren’t legally privileged.

Chatbot records have surfaced in at least 12 court cases over the past two years:

@durovs_code

🧠 AI wants Macs

Apple refreshed → the Mac mini and Mac Studio unusually early, driven by surging demand from businesses buying Macs for AI workloads.

@durovs_code

🫡 Claude sessions hijacked

Anthropic is logging affected Claude users out and removing their saved payment methods after infostealer malware began hijacking active browser sessions.

How the attacks work:

↖️ https://durovscode.com/claude-session-hijacking-infostealer-malware

🦴 Enter Gram

Pavel Durov has announced the launch of Gram Wallet in Telegram. Over the next two weeks, access will gradually roll out to more than a billion users:

↖️ https://durovscode.com/telegram-gram-wallet-users-rollout

🧠 Welcome to the big leagues

The EU has classified ChatGPT as one of its largest online services, putting it under stricter requirements of the Digital Services Act.

What changes for ChatGPT:

↖️ https://durovscode.com/chatgpt-eu-vlop-dsa-designation

😘 Android and iOS get company

Huawei announced plans at HEC 2026 to bring its HarmonyOS operating system to international markets.

How the rollout will work:

↖️ https://durovscode.com/huawei-harmonyos-global-launch-outside-china

🤐 Neo, we have a problem

With just 8GB of memory, the base MacBook Neo could burn through its built-in SSD at an alarming rate. One estimate suggests the entry-level model could exhaust its drive endurance in less than two months.

How long each version could last and why there’s no easy fix:

↖️ https://durovscode.com/macbook-neo-8gb-ssd-wear-swap-memory

🍏 One more look before launch

New iPhone Ultra dummy units have surfaced a week before Apple’s event, showing a rounder body, a more integrated hinge, a redesigned camera module and a revised speaker layout around USB-C.

The iPhone 18 Pro Max was also shown in two possible new finishes, Rose Crimson and Space Black.

More photos:

↖️ https://durovscode.com/iphone-ultra-dummy-final-design-leak

😏 So, which leak is it?

Another leak claims the iPhone 18 Pro could come in three finishes: Dark Cherry or burgundy, Sky Blue and black.

The latest color rumors:

↖️ https://durovscode.com/iphone-18-pro-colors-reveal

🧠 Fable 5 gets a rethink

Anthropic has released Claude Fable 5.1 and Mythos 5.1, addressing some of the biggest complaints about Fable 5. The new version is around 25% cheaper, adds stronger data privacy and relaxes safeguards that were blocking legitimate requests.

Fable 5.1 can now also help researchers find software vulnerabilities.

What else is new:

↖️ https://durovscode.com/anthropic-claude-fable-5-1-mythos-5-1-launch

😄 Canva has company

Google has started rolling out Google Pics, a new image creation and editing tool for Workspace. Powered by the latest version of Nano Banana, the service works much like Canva.

What it can do:

↖️ https://durovscode.com/google-rolls-out-nano-banana-powered-pics-image-editor-for-workspace

🤔 Multitasking, sort of

The iPhone Ultra will reportedly be limited to two apps on screen at once. Some apps will get more iPad-like layouts, but full windowed multitasking isn’t expected.

There are a few better details, though:

↖️ https://durovscode.com/iphone-ultra-foldable-two-apps-multitasking

🤩 Free Claude

Anthropic is opening 10,000 spots for researchers worldwide, offering free access to Claude for a year and up to $50,000 in compute credits for eligible research projects.

Some restrictions remain:

↖️ https://durovscode.com/anthropic-free-claude-access-scientists-researchers