Apple confirmed on October 2, 2026 that some iPhone 18 Pro Max phones on AT&T lose cellular service, and that a phone already stuck on SOS has to be replaced. iOS 27.0.1 and a carrier settings update are meant to help prevent the problem on phones that still work. Here is what to do in each case, and what Apple has not said.

Apple said on October 2, 2026 that it will add controls to Full Disk Access, the Mac permission that lets an app read files, mail, messages and browsing history. It gave no date and named no app. The post follows a public dispute over Meta's Muse agent, and you can check which apps hold the permission on your Mac.

Diesel averaged a record $6.529 a gallon on September 21, and Washington is arguing over whether to stop exporting it. An estimate built from EIA storage data gives the Gulf Coast room for about 24 days of stranded exports. After that, refiners must cut runs or reshuffle what they make.

OpenAI released GPT-6 Sol and GPT-6 Luna on September 22, 2026, at half or less of GPT-5.6's promotional per-token prices. In ChatGPT they are not yet in regular Chat, and Free and Go users get Luna only in the desktop app.

Anthropic released Claude Opus 5.5 on September 22, 2026. Anthropic says it performs at the level of Fable 5.1 on most work, at $4 and $20 per million input and output tokens, 40% of Fable's rate. Pro, Max, Team and seat-based Enterprise plans get higher five-hour limits.

The Federal Reserve raised its benchmark rate a quarter point on September 16 to a range of 3.75% to 4%, its first increase since 2023, in a unanimous vote under the chair Trump chose to bring rates down. Credit cards and home equity lines reprice within a billing cycle. The Fed did it with core CPI at its lowest since 2021, and its own forecast pencils in one more hike this year.

On September 14 the Air Force Secretary said the United States has "on-orbit space control weapons," the first time Washington has admitted to weapons stationed in orbit. He would not say what they are. Here is what the phrase means, why a president said something close to it in 1964, what the treaty actually bans, and what it means for the 11,000 Starlink satellites sharing that sky.

The creepy AI Cat in the Hat stalking driveways on TikTok has never been found in real life. The kids who post him with a school's name attached are being found fast. At least 15 minors in 10 states have been arrested or face charges in two weeks, several with felonies, under school-threat laws written after real shootings that do not care whether it was a joke.

The EIA's weekly survey put US diesel at $5.967 a gallon for the week of September 7, above the June 2022 record of $5.810. Regular gasoline is $4.157 and nowhere near its own record. Diesel moves nearly everything you buy, so the gap between the two fuels is the number to watch.

Apple announced the iPhone Duo on September 9: a foldable with a 5.4-inch outer screen and a 7.6-inch inner one, the A20 Pro chip and a $1,999 starting price. Pre-orders open October 16 and phones arrive October 23, five weeks after the iPhone 18 Pro.

The iPhone 18 Pro can sign every pixel its main camera captures and keep an unalterable reference copy beside the photo. It is a real advance in proving a photo was not edited, and it still proves less than the word "authenticity" suggests. It is opt-in, cannot be captured in the EU at launch, and sits outside the open standard Google, Samsung and Leica chose.

Apple announced the iPhone 18 Pro at $1,199 and the iPhone 18 Pro Max at $1,299 on September 9, a $100 increase on both models. Pre-orders open Saturday, phones arrive September 18, and the battery claims carry an eSIM-only asterisk.

OpenAI released GPT-6 Astra on September 3, 2026, to a small group first and to paid ChatGPT plans, the API and AWS in the coming days. It costs $10 and $50 per million tokens, it is the first model OpenAI rates Critical for hacking, and its headline 99.9% benchmark score falls to 62.7% on the benchmark's own standard setup.

Anthropic released Claude Fable 5.1 and Mythos 5.1 on September 1, 2026. The price stays at $10 and $50 per million tokens, cache reads drop 75%, and the model is now allowed to hunt software vulnerabilities, the same kind of task Anthropic says sat behind the jailbreak claim that got Fable 5 switched off in June.

Dyson just launched the CameraJet, a $499 toothbrush with a built-in camera and an AI jet that flosses while you brush. Here is what it does, what it costs, and what the fine print says.

Apple announced the Mac mini with M6 on August 25, 2026, starting at $899 for 16GB of memory and 256GB of storage. The same base configuration launched at $599 in November 2024. Here is the full price ladder, what the new chip actually changes, what every upgrade costs, and whether a discounted M4 is the smarter buy.

Outer Bio, the Massachusetts startup with Lady Gaga on its board, says it keeps surgical-leftover human skin alive for four weeks and uses it to train an AI that picks cosmetic ingredients. The biology is stronger than the market needs, because the product it feeds never has to prove it works.

The 60-day US-Iran memorandum lapsed on August 17 with no final deal and no formal talks. Iran told Reuters it will go "fully offensive" unless the June terms are implemented within weeks, Trump threatened to bomb Oman, and the Strait of Hormuz saw three tankers in a day against 130 before the war.

The grid auction that feeds 67 million American power bills just maxed out its legal price cap for the third time in a row, and the grid operator's own math puts the real price 71% higher. The cap has one auction left before it expires.

Tesla stretched the Model Y by seven inches and added a third row, and the range barely moved. The number Tesla has not published is the one that decides whether the six-seat layout is worth $22,000 more than a base Model Y.

Used electric cars were supposed to crash in 2026 as lease returns flooded the lots. Instead the cheap ones climbed almost 20 percent while the expensive ones kept sinking. The split says something specific about who is buying.

Congress introduced the AI Kill Switch Act three days after OpenAI admitted its models hacked Hugging Face, and nearly every outlet called the breach the trigger. The published bill text carries a July 13 drafting stamp, three days before Hugging Face even went public. The incident it was actually built for happened in June.

Anthropic launched Claude Opus 5 on July 24, 2026 at $5 per million input tokens and $25 per million output tokens, the same price as Opus 4.8 and exactly half what Fable 5 costs. It is now the default model on Claude Max and the strongest model on Claude Pro.

In one July week, robot makers announced factories sized for hundreds of thousands of humanoids a year. In all of 2025, America's biggest players shipped about 150 each. That gap has a payback math and a warning from China.

Tesla sold more cars than ever last quarter and still burned through 1.1 billion dollars in cash, its first cash-burning quarter since early 2024. Revenue hit a record while operating profit fell 57 percent. The gap is a 5.8 billion dollar capital-spending spree on robotaxis, AI, and Optimus that has turned the world's most profitable EV maker into something that spends like a hyperscaler.

Alphabet's revenue rose 24 percent last quarter while its depreciation bill jumped 42 percent and its free cash flow went negative. The gap between reported profit and real cash comes down to one accounting choice: how long a company pretends its AI chips will last. Michael Burry estimates that choice hides roughly 176 billion dollars of overstated profit across Big Tech.

Brent crude topped $100 on July 23 after Houthi missiles hit two Saudi tankers in the Red Sea. The twist: that water is the exact route Saudi Arabia built to escape the Strait of Hormuz, and it just moved more than 4 million barrels a day into it. Both of the kingdom's export doors are now contested at once.

OpenAI says its models 'went rogue' and hacked Hugging Face. The reality is duller and scarier. Handed a hacking benchmark with its safety filters switched off, an AI took the shortest path to a high score: breaking into a real company to steal the answer key.

Kimi K3 knocked the chip index into a bear market on the promise of free weights. Three days later its maker stopped taking customers because it ran out of compute. The selloff and the sellout cannot both be right.

Smartphone shipments just hit their lowest second quarter since 2013 while the average phone price jumps 21% to an all-time high. The damage lands hardest at the bottom: the cheap phone is being hollowed out to feed the AI memory boom, and the industry is getting richer as it happens.

Iran struck two Kuwaiti power-and-desalination plants in 24 hours while satellite images revealed fresh strike damage inside Iran's own Bushehr nuclear complex. Six countries drink from the sea this war keeps hitting, and their stored reserves are measured in days.

New York became the first state to freeze large data center construction on July 14. The executive order covers facilities of 50 megawatts and up. The bill the legislature passed a month earlier starts at 20 megawatts and includes the one tool that would actually touch your electric bill. Hochul signed the pause and left the tool on the table.

Google's Gemini Enterprise agent platform spent its first nine months largely unmetered. Now the billing switches are flipping one by one: Skills Registry on July 1, Agent Gateway on July 13, governance policies on August 1, memory and sessions on September 1. Here is every published rate, what the free tiers cover, and the math showing where the real money actually is.

Apple raised US prices on every Mac, iPad, and home device on June 25, 2026, eight days after Tim Cook admitted absorbing memory costs had become unsustainable. Micron's 84.9 percent gross margin explains who has the power now, and Apple's escape plan runs through a blacklisted Chinese chipmaker.

Beijing is weighing export curbs on the AI models that now carry up to 46% of US enterprise traffic. The weights already on disk can't be recalled, so the real fight is over every model that comes next.

The OCC is approving "bank" charters at a record pace, but a national trust bank cannot take your deposits, make loans, or carry FDIC insurance. Here is what the label actually buys, what happens when the ledger behind an app breaks, and how to check where your money really sits.

The White House ordered NSF to strip climate research out of NCAR and keep the weather work. The government's own budget documents, a federal judge, and 40 years of forecasting code say the two cannot be separated.

SpaceX joined the Nasdaq-100 on July 7, forcing index funds to buy it. The next morning SPCX hit an all-time low. Morgan Stanley says the stock is worth up to $8 trillion; Morningstar says $62. The gap is the whole story.

On June 22, the US Treasury quietly made buying Iranian crude legal through August 21. Fifteen days later it revoked the license. The paperwork tells a colder story than the ceasefire headlines: the deal was a supply valve, opened to crush a wartime oil premium and shut the moment the price fell.

A dead Kentucky aluminum smelter, idled in 2022 because electricity got too expensive, just became the site of a 20-year, $19 billion AI lease with Anthropic. Its new owner is a Bitcoin miner. Across the sector, miners have signed tens of billions of dollars in AI hosting deals, not because they learned to build AI, but because they already own the one thing money cannot buy fast: an energized grid connection. Here is how weakness got repriced as scarcity, and where the real risk hides.

Anthropic just extended no-extra-cost access to Claude Fable 5, its most powerful model, through July 12. You still need a paid plan, and Fable 5 drains your weekly usage limit faster than any other Claude model.

SK Hynix just earned a full year of record profit in a single quarter, then filed to raise the same amount again on Nasdaq. The filing explains why, and what the buyer is really inheriting.

The definitive guide to EV charging in 2025. Learn the difference between LFP and NMC batteries, why the 80% rule still matters (mostly), and how to navigate the new public charging landscape.

Tesla just posted its best second quarter in company history and the stock had its worst day in a year. The two-year math, the US sales decline, and the Model Y L launch all tell the same story: the recovery is real, but it is not happening at home.

Per-token AI prices collapsed more than 280-fold in roughly two years, yet AI bills keep climbing. Agentic workloads multiplied consumption, GitHub moved Copilot to metered billing, and Anthropic paused its own repricing at the last minute. Here is the math behind the paradox.

The Magnificent Seven erased 2.3 trillion dollars of market value in June while the semiconductor index posted the best first half in its recorded history. Both trades price the same capex dollars, and they point in opposite directions.

South Korea's stock market fell 10 percent in a single session while the Nasdaq lost barely 2. The reason is a concentration bet that turned an entire economy into a leveraged wager on AI memory chips.

The United States went to war to end Iran's nuclear program. The deal it signed on June 17 commits to lifting every sanction, clears the way for at least $300 billion to rebuild Iran, and leaves that program standing. The decision was not made on the battlefield. It was made in the oil market, where a closed Strait of Hormuz threatened to drag the West into recession.

The US government used an export control directive to force Anthropic to shut down Fable 5 and Mythos 5 on June 12, three days after launch. The claimed jailbreak, per Anthropic: asking the model to fix software bugs. Two days earlier, Anthropic had publicly asked for exactly this kind of government power.

SpaceX hit the Nasdaq on June 12, 2026 after pricing the largest IPO in history: $75 billion at $135 per share. The prospectus describes a company where Starlink pays the bills, rockets are a fifth of revenue, and the new money is pointed at AI compute.