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APPLE'S NEW CEO INTRODUCED HIMSELF BY ASKING YOU FOR TWO THOUSAND DOLLARS
John Ternus took over from Tim Cook on September 1, and eight days later he was on stage at the Steve Jobs Theater doing the old "one more thing" routine. What he pulled out was the iPhone Duo, Apple's first foldable, book-style phone with a 5.4-inch screen on the outside and a 7.6-inch screen inside. It starts at $1,999 for 256GB and climbs to $3,199 if you want 2TB. Preorders open October 16, it lands in stores October 23, and it comes in two colors called Star White and Night Sky, because "white" and "blue" don't move at two grand. Ternus also took a shot at the competition, saying rival foldables feel like "two phones awkwardly stuck together." Confident words from the company that watched Samsung sell folding phones for years before deciding the hinge was ready. Then the actual bill for normal people. The iPhone 18 Pro starts at $1,199 and the Pro Max at $1,299, each a hundred more than last year, blamed on a global memory shortage. Analysts had spent the summer warning about $200 or $300, so Apple gouging you by only one Benjamin now reads as restraint. One analyst noted that jacking up Pro prices makes the $1,999 foldable feel like a shorter leap. CNN passed along Apple's reminder that you can lease the thing. Wall Street was unmoved. AAPL closed down 0.28%.
AI RESEARCHER QUITS OVER EXTINCTION FEARS, ANTHROPIC SAYS IT'S TRYING 'ITS BEST'
Jacob Coxon, 27, spent three years training AI models at both OpenAI and Anthropic. Tuesday he quit with an X post: "I resigned from Anthropic today. I spent the last three years doing pretraining research at both OpenAI and Anthropic. Neither company is acting responsibly. They are racing straight to self-improving superintelligence and gambling with our lives." Tens of millions of views overnight. Hell of a way to burn a reference. The headline claim: "The people building AI earnestly believe that it could kill us all by the end of the decade," and executives couch it for the press while saying the scary version privately. That part is his read on private conversations, so weigh it accordingly. Then Anthropic's own chief safety researcher, Evan Hubinger, posted hours later: "Jacob is correct here." He pegged the chance AI kills all humans at greater than 10% in the next decade, said Anthropic is "trying its best," and admitted the company does "not yet have a plan to solve alignment for superintelligence" and is not clearly on track to get one. Hubinger clarified afterward that risk from today's models is low, and what worries him is superintelligence arising from recursive self-improvement, which is happening faster than expected. Coxon told the Wall Street Journal that by the end of next year things could already be out of control. Anthropic and OpenAI did not immediately respond to requests for comment, which is its own kind of answer. If you are interested in the entire thread the link is here: https://x.com/hilbertspaess/status/2097476196791709843
FUGITIVE ROBS A HOUSE FOR A FIRE EXTINGUISHER, ENDS UP GETTING TASED IN THE OCEAN
Deputies clocked a Dodge SUV doing 63 in a 45 near Mile Marker 83 in Islamorada on Sept. 4. The driver, 28-year-old Brandon Lee May of East Liberty, Ohio, treated the traffic stop as optional and gunned it into a Publix parking lot, where the sheriff's office says he kept driving recklessly and endangering pedestrians. Then he abandoned the SUV and took off on foot. The foot chase is where it gets stupid. He tried to get into a plumbing business and couldn't, so he broke into a home instead and came out with a fire extinguisher, pin pulled, according to deputies. He armed himself with the one object in the house specifically built to calm situations down. He then hopped a fence onto Avocado Street, went through another residence, and jumped into the Gulfside water, which turned him into a slow-moving guy with nowhere to go and deputies standing on dry land. It took multiple Taser attempts before one landed. Deputies say he kicked and pulled away during the arrest and kept fighting at Mariners Hospital in Tavernier, then got moved to HCA Florida Kendall for a broken wrist. He's charged with fleeing and eluding while endangering pedestrians, armed burglary, grand theft, felon in possession of a firearm during a felony, resisting with and without violence, and driving on a suspended license. His passenger, Anthony Shane Morris, 28, of Islamorada, slid into the driver's seat and got booked as an accessory after the fact.
CLANCY JURORS OPEN UP ABOUT HOLDOUT
Three jurors from Lindsay Clancy's murder trial sat down with NBC10 Boston Tuesday to explain how seven days of deliberation produced nothing. The whole answer is one guy. Foreperson Roni Carlson, a retired fifth-grade teacher, said the holdout finally admitted he had reasonable doubt. She was so excited she started filling out the three verdict forms and signed her name on each one. Then he said he still wasn't going to say Clancy was not guilty by reason of insanity. Carlson said he couldn't articulate anything, really, and was very closed off, which is a hell of a position to hold for a week without a follow-up sentence. The panel of nine women and three men spent more than 38 hours on it and sent notes saying they were split 11 to 1, with the majority at one point telling the court the holdout couldn't follow the law on reasonable doubt. Judge William Sullivan reread his reasonable doubt instruction and sent them back in. Defense attorney Kevin Reddington tried to get the man removed, then filed an emergency appeal with the state's highest court, which reviewed it and said no. The three jurors said the arguing got loud enough that the six alternates could hear them. Clancy, 36, admitted she strangled her three children in the family's Duxbury home in January 2023, so the only open question was criminal responsibility, and it is still open. DA Tim Cruz says no decision yet on a retrial. The judge wants to go again this fall, with a status conference at the end of the month. The holdout hasn't given his side and didn't respond to NBC10.
DRAKE MAYE THREW THREE PICKS IN ONE QUARTER AND GIFT-WRAPPED SEATTLE THE OPENER
Seattle opened its title defense Wednesday night at Lumen Field, Richard Sherman raised the 12th Man flag, and then the defending champs spent three quarters looking like they left the offense in the parking lot. Sam Darnold's night lasted five plays. He took a sack, limped to the medical tent and then the locker room, and finished with 13 yards and a hip injury with no timetable to return. Drew Lock came on and did nothing for a half. New England led 7-0 at the break and pushed it to 10-0 on a 50-yard Andres Borregales field goal in the third. Seattle had three points through three quarters. All the Patriots had to do was sit on it. Instead Drake Maye handed the game over in installments. He threw interceptions on New England's final three possessions, all of them in the fourth quarter, the first three-pick game of his career and a hell of a follow-up to a season where he nearly won MVP. Pick one set up Lock's 45-yard game-tying strike to Jaxon Smith-Njigba on fourth down. Pick two set up the Jason Myers field goal that put Seattle ahead 13-10 with 5:53 left. Pick three was the worst. New England had a short field goal available to tie, and Maye lofted one into the end zone that Josh Jobe caught with both feet in bounds and 26 seconds on the clock. A.J. Brown's Patriots debut ended in the third quarter with an ankle injury, so nobody from New England got out of Seattle clean.
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- nbcnews.com - Seahawks vs. Patriots live updates: Seattle scores 13 straight to beat New England in NFL opener
- clickorlando.com - Seahawks pick off Drake Maye 3 times to beat Patriots 13-10 in Super Bowl rematch
- nesn.com - Patriots vs. Seahawks Score, Highlights: Patriots Lose Super Bowl Rematch, A.J. Brown Leaves Game With an Injury
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