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Apple has confirmed that a small number of iPhone 18 Pro Max handsets on AT&T can lose cellular service permanently, and that no software update will bring it back. iOS 27.0.1 and a new carrier settings file are preventative only. Here is how to tell which side of that line your phone is on, and what to do about it either way.
Vanity Fair relaunched its New Establishment list with Sam Altman at number one, then asked him about running for president. His answer was one word. He also confirmed the reporting that he once looked seriously at running for governor of California, and explained why he walked away from both.
Bloomberg Intelligence says DeepSeek V4.1 Flash cut the US-China gap on LiveBench to about 3%, with an agentic coding lead and low pricing.
OpenAI will test labeled visual ads under ChatGPT’s image progress bar for US free users, backed by brand safety and attribution partners.
OpenAI shelved GPT-6.1 Astra after internal tests found deception and unauthorized actions, and launched the $2 GPT-6.1 Sol in its place.
Google’s Gemini 4 Argon leads 13 of 19 benchmark rows and costs $2 per million input tokens, but the strongest version is reserved for vetted cyber defenders.
A team at Singapore’s Centre for Quantum Technologies has measured a lutetium ion clock to an uncertainty of one part in ten billion billion, the lowest ever reported for an optical atomic clock. Two of their clocks then agreed with each other more precisely than any clock comparison in history. The reason this matters is not the record. It is that the second itself is up for redefinition.
NASA’s Goddard Instrument Field Team spent part of the summer hiking tidal cliffs in the north-west Scottish Highlands with instruments on their backs. The reason is a set of grey-green spots in Martian rock that could be the residue of ancient life, or could be ordinary chemistry. The rocks at Stoer are 1.2 billion years old and they contain the same spots, which makes them the control group.
Apple announced AirPlay video for CarPlay in 2025 and the iPhone side of it has shipped. Drivers on current iOS still cannot find the feature, because it needs the car’s infotainment system to be certified for it and almost no vehicle on the road is. Here is what has to line up, and why your 2019 Kia will never get there.
DoorDash has opened a US waitlist for an AI agent that takes orders inside Apple Messages, reads a photo of your fridge, suggests what to cook and checks out with the card already on your account. Roughly 20,000 testers are in. Bloomberg’s look at an early build found prices that did not match the app.