🕹 Store within a store

Google has started officially distributing third-party app stores directly through Google Play, with Aptoide Games becoming the first one available.

How it works:

↖️ https://durovscode.com/google-play-third-party-app-stores

⛔️ Not so seamless

Apple may have scrapped its radical all-glass iPhone redesign planned for the smartphone’s 20th anniversary.

What happened:

↖️ https://durovscode.com/apple-all-glass-iphone-canceled

🧠 Feeling AI

Google is testing a homepage → without the Google Search button, replacing it with shortcuts to AI features.

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🤔 Plot twist

A recent Jefferies report claiming Apple had scrapped the glass design for its anniversary iPhone not only sent Apple shares down, but also appears to have been wrong.

Bloomberg spoke to sources familiar with Apple’s plans and found out what’s actually happening with the iPhone 20 design:

↖️ https://durovscode.com/iphone-20-glass-design-still-on-track

👍 Go touch grass

Telegram has launched its first IRL challenge. Find a place in your neighborhood that needs some care, clean it up and share before-and-after photos.

Four winners will get 100 USDT each, with results announced this Friday, so better get cleaning.

↖️ https://durovscode.com/telegram-irl-cleanup-challenge

😾 Just give it a try

Anthropic asked Claude to “take a real stab” at proving one of mathematics’ biggest unsolved problems.

It didn’t solve it, but along the way unexpectedly improved a result mathematicians had been working on for decades.

↖️ https://durovscode.com/claude-riemann-hypothesis-progress

😄 Nice try!

Starting in mid-September, Spotify will label virtual AI artists and remove their music from recommendations.

Who gets the label and how Spotify plans to spot them:

↖️ https://durovscode.com/spotify-ai-artists-label

🛸 Meet your new coworkers

SpaceXAI has launched Grok Bot, a team of AI agents → that can split up tasks, work in parallel and coordinate with each other. Each bot gets its own cloud computer, so the team keeps working even after you close your laptop.

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🍏 Something looks off

Screen protectors for the foldable iPhone Ultra have surfaced online, revealing a rather unusual and asymmetrical design.

↖️ https://durovscode.com/iphone-ultra-screen-design

🧠 Keeping up with the competition

SpaceXAI has launched Grok 4.6, its latest language model, which now ranks alongside OpenAI’s GPT-5.6 Sol and Anthropic’s Claude Fable 5 in intelligence and even beats them in some benchmarks.

↖️ https://durovscode.com/spacexai-grok-4-6

😄 Thanks for the content

Twitch has started using creators’ content to train generative AI models for its parent company, Amazon, and streamers are automatically opted in unless they turn it off themselves. Unsurprisingly, the decision has already sparked backlash across the community.

Here’s what we know:

↖️ https://durovscode.com/twitch-amazon-ai-training

🕹 Screen time

Photos of an apparent Xbox Elite 3 prototype have surfaced online, and it looks like the controller is getting a built-in display.

What else we know about the prototype:

↖️ https://durovscode.com/xbox-elite-3-screen

😎 Alibaba goes big

Alibaba has released Qwen3.8-Max, an open AI model → with 2.4 trillion parameters and support for up to 1 million tokens of context. It’s built primarily for complex agentic tasks, coding and deep research.

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😆 AI went hands-on

AI agents carried out a near-autonomous cyberattack on Taiwan’s government infrastructure, marking the first extensively documented attack of its kind.

↖️ https://durovscode.com/ai-agents-taiwan-cyberattack

😏 Instagzam?

Instagram has changed its wordmark → for the first time in 10 years, giving the familiar logo a sharper, more modern look.

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😘 HAPPY BIRTHDAY!

Telegram turns 13 today!

📌 The past year has once again shown just how difficult it is to remain an independent platform when governments, regulators, and the world’s biggest tech companies all have competing interests.

📌 It’s even harder at a time when the era of a single, global internet increasingly seems to be coming to an end.

📌 Whatever happens next, Telegram continues on its own path, holding firmly to its position. And in many countries, people continue to rely on it for many of the same reasons they always have.

📌 Protecting the right to privacy and freedom of speech remains at the heart of Telegram’s mission. Now we’ll see how the platform handles the challenges ahead.

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❤️ This weekend in #TECH

📌 Samsung is reportedly working on Galaxy H1, a new pair of premium over-ear wireless headphones that could take on Apple’s AirPods Max.

📌 SpaceXAI has completed its $60 billion acquisition of Anysphere, the company behind Cursor.

📌 Apple proposed a 5–15% cut on purchases made outside the App Store through external links in iOS apps.

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🤗 Too good to ship?

Anthropic has an internal AI model called Model 2 that appears to outperform its flagship Mythos on many internal tasks, but the company has no plans to release it publicly.

↖️ https://durovscode.com/anthropic-model-2-mythos

🤔 Nothing to see here

Anthropic has explained how its invisible watermark for Claude-generated text actually works.

Spoiler: there are no hidden characters. The model simply makes slightly different choices between equally plausible words, creating a pattern that can later be used to estimate whether a text was generated by Claude.

Here’s how it works and where it doesn’t:

↖️ https://durovscode.com/claude-text-watermark

📱 Ultra uncertain

New leaks reveal more about Apple’s first foldable iPhone, including its launch timing, availability and even what it might be called.

Here’s what the insiders say:

↖️ https://durovscode.com/foldable-iphone-release-name