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🍏 Apple Sets September 9 Event The foldable iPhone will debut at 10:00 a.m. Apple also plans iPhone 18, new Apple Watch and iPad mini models. 📊@tech

🤖 OpenAI Previews Cloud-Based Codex In an interview, Thibault, OpenAI’s head of Codex and ChatGPT, said the current Codex may look primitive in 2-3 months. Next-generation Astra-based agents will need the cloud, where they can run more parallel processes than a typical laptop can handle. Agent speed is also expected to rise. Today’s Ultra Fast rate of 750+ tokens per second could become the default. Codex and ChatGPT will increasingly share one harness across coding and other tasks. The stated end goal is Personal AGI, a single personalized app whose interface changes with the user’s task. 📊@tech

📊 Alibaba previews Qwen4 architecture Alibaba released Qwen3.8-Flash-Next, an open multimodal model and early preview of the architecture planned for Qwen4. It has 125B parameters, but uses only 6B for each text fragment. Another 51B sit in separate memory for frequent combinations. The design keeps the model large while reducing compute. Alibaba says training is about 9 times cheaper than Qwen3.7-Plus, while the model already performs better on coding, tool-use tasks, and long office workflows. Long-context support reaches 262,000 tokens by default and up to 1 million tokens in extended mode. At 1 million tokens, a new retrieval mechanism can significantly speed up processing. The weights are already open on Hugging Face. 📊@tech

🤖 Beijing Robot Games Fuel Endless Memes The footage is endlessly memeable. The robot weighs 16 kg. 📊@tech

🤳 Nothing OS 5.0 Puts Customisation First The update brings a new visual layer with transparency and a light frosted-glass effect. Surfaces now have depth, making it clearer what sits in front. The system font is Geist, while the dot matrix becomes mostly decorative. A new colour engine can take shades directly from your wallpaper. They flow into icons, widgets, and controls, so changing the wallpaper changes the interface. Essential Apps Builder is now a phone app that turns a text description into a custom AI widget. Comments under the announcement are less enthusiastic. Users say a year of work brought a font, more colour settings, and transparent widgets, while Nothing still lacks its own clock and calculator. 📊@tech

🍏 Apple Refreshes Mac mini and Studio Preorders are open, with shipments starting September 22. Both desktops come with macOS 27 Golden Gate and the new Siri AI. The Mac mini keeps its tiny body, but gets M6 or M5 Pro chips. M6 starts at $899 and uses Apple’s first 2nm process, with 12 CPU cores and 170 GB/s memory bandwidth. Both models cost $100 more. Mac Studio now starts at $2,499 with M5 Max. M5 Ultra starts at $5,499. Its four-die design reaches 36 CPU cores and 80 GPU cores, with 1.2 TB/s memory bandwidth. With Mac Pro discontinued, it is Apple’s most powerful computer. 📊@tech

🍏 Apple’s Camera AirPods Leak by Mistake An internal development branch was accidentally merged into the macOS Tahoe 26.7 release candidate. It brought a demo video showing unannounced AirPods with cameras. In the clip, a man points the earbuds at a book so Visual Intelligence can read its title. The cameras capture the surroundings in low resolution and act as eyes for Apple’s AI features, including turn-by-turn navigation and answers about what is in front of the user. Gurman also says early reactions to the foldable iPhone are warm. Testers liked its pocket fit, hinge and iPad-style app layouts, but there is no telephoto lens. Pricing remains open. 📊@tech

⚠️ Xianglong Blasts Through Mixed Ground The 4.5-meter Xianglong tunnel boring machine was developed by Tsinghua University and Wuhan-based CRSIC. Its cutting head retracts behind the shield, exposing built-in drills. The drills bore holes several meters into the rock. Low-power, high-speed charges create microcracks without throwing debris or producing a strong shockwave. The shield absorbs what does fly back, then the head returns to crush and clear the broken rock. The system targets mixed geology, where standard machines struggle when soft ground turns into rock. Chinese state media says it raises boring speed by 30%, while the shield diameter can be adjusted for different lining segments. 📊@tech

🤖 Claude Code Built a Mac Driver In about 4 hours, 19-year-old Kuber Mehta used Claude Code to reverse-engineer the proprietary printer language behind the HP Laser 1008a. The result is a working Mac driver built from scratch. The driver translates macOS print commands into a format the printer understands. It runs HP’s codec inside a lightweight container, then sends the data directly over USB. The budget printer was designed for Windows, with no Mac support or AirPrint. After a one-command installation, printing works from any Mac app through Cmd+P. Mehta published the project on GitHub along with a full transcript of the Claude Code session. 📊@tech

🎥 Same Video, New Angle As Sarah Connor said: “When they chase you, always run toward a wall.” 📊@tech