🤗 Fair use wins one

The US government has sided → with OpenAI in its copyright fight with The New York Times, arguing that copyrighted material can legally be used to train AI models under fair use.

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😄 Time to slow down

Sam Altman says OpenAI had to slow the training of a new frontier model after a sharp jump in capabilities during reinforcement learning.

Why OpenAI hit the brakes:

↖️ https://durovscode.com/sam-altman-self-learning-ai-risks-openai

😀 Nvidia buys Hugging Face

Nvidia is acquiring Hugging Face for nearly $13 billion, bringing the major open-source AI platform into its expanding ecosystem.

What happens to the platform now:

↖️ https://durovscode.com/nvidia-acquires-hugging-face-11-9-billion

🧠 GPT-6 Astra

OpenAI has launched its new flagship model, GPT-6 Astra, calling the release the beginning of the AGI era.

Astra was trained on more than 100,000 GPUs and set records in several reasoning and science benchmarks.

Benchmarks, pricing, API access and rollout details:

↖️ https://durovscode.com/openai-gpt-6-astra-launch-benchmarks-features

🛸 AI around the house

Nvidia has launched PAIR, a free open-source tool that distributes AI workloads across compatible computers on the same home network.

How it works:

↖️ https://durovscode.com/nvidia-pair-local-ai-cluster-home-pcs

👍 Chefs know best

Dubai-born byChefs is taking its chef-powered restaurant rankings to new markets, with London, Milan, Singapore and New York next on its expansion list. The platform has already brought together more than 500 leading chefs, whose votes determine which restaurants make the rankings in each city.

The next step is a consumer app featuring an AI-powered dining concierge, built around the same chef recommendations and designed to help users find restaurants for specific occasions, dishes or locations.

Inside byChefs and its global expansion:

↖️ https://durovscode.com/bychefs-dubai-global-restaurant-ranking-chefs-ai-concierge

❤️ This weekend in #TECH

📌 Apple is reportedly making only a few hundred foldable iPhones a day, well behind schedule.

📌 The iPhone 18 Pro Max could get a “mechanical aperture” camera for better control over light and depth of field.

📌 GPT-6 Astra is now rolling out, but independent tests found only modest gains and still put it behind Claude overall.

📌 A US court has blocked Operation Bluebird from using the Twitter trademark. The startup can still use the blue bird logo for now.

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💻 Windows wants to know your age

Windows 11 will start keeping track of users’ age ranges and sharing them with apps, so they can limit what younger users are allowed to access.

The feature has already surfaced in a new beta build and comes as governments tighten online age-verification rules.

How it’ll work:

↖️ https://durovscode.com/windows-11-age-group-apps-age-verification

🍏 CEO pay, without the CEO title

Insiders believe Tim Cook will remain closely involved at Apple after stepping down as CEO. The biggest hint is his unusually large new compensation package, which reportedly surprised even senior executives.

↖️ https://durovscode.com/tim-cook-apple-pay-compensation

😏 You’re being watched

Researchers found that LG smart TVs can record audio and scan devices on home networks without users realizing it.

What experts recommend doing:

↖️ https://durovscode.com/lg-smart-tv-audio-recording-home-network-privacy

🧠 Robots, report for duty

China is actively preparing humanoid robots for military use, according to Reuters. At recent competitions in Beijing, the machines showed off striking speed and agility.

What’s known so far:

↖️ https://durovscode.com/china-humanoid-robots-military-combat

🤫 Think before you send

Google is bringing Sensitive Content Warning to Android’s Photo Picker. The feature, spotted in recent Android 17 test builds, expands SafetyCore beyond protecting users from incoming nude images.

It will now also flag potentially explicit photos before they’re shared with another person.

How it’ll work:

↖️ https://durovscode.com/android-sensitive-content-warning-photo-picker-nude-photos

💅 Scroll limit incoming

French President Emmanuel Macron is calling on the EU to ban social media for children under 15, with the same rules applying across all member states.

↖️ https://durovscode.com/macron-eu-social-media-ban-children-under-15

🙂 One last leak

A day before Apple’s event, Mark Gurman has revealed the expected price, design and key technical details of the iPhone Ultra — or Duo.

What to expect:

↖️ https://durovscode.com/apple-foldable-iphone-price-specs-launch

🍏 Apple night is here

Apple’s big fall event takes place today, with several major announcements expected.

We’ve rounded up the upcoming products, UAE start time and where to watch the livestream:

↖️ https://durovscode.com/apple-september-event-2026-uae

😎 Altman goes Hollywood

The first trailer for Luca Guadagnino’s Artificial has been released, with Andrew Garfield starring as Sam Altman and Yura Borisov playing OpenAI co-founder Ilya Sutskever.

The film revisits Altman’s sudden firing from OpenAI in November 2023 and his return as CEO just five days later, set against the rise of ChatGPT and the growing AI race.

Artificial premieres October 5 at the New York Film Festival.

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🧠 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