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01/Hardware

Apple finally folded

Apple unveiled its first foldable iPhone this week, arriving rather fashionably late to a party Samsung started back in 2019.

A foldable iPhone Duo held open above a seated audience at Apple Park.
Announced at Apple Park on Wednesday, at an event called Surprise and shine.CNET

The hardware is interesting, but we're more interested in what it means for software. A phone that changes shape while you're using it introduces a whole new collection of ways for apps to behave badly.

Apple has a habit of arriving late to a category and then making its version feel like the new normal. If the Duo sells, designing an app that works beautifully folded and unfolded could quickly become another basic expectation.

02/Policy

The Greens have an AI plan

The Green Party set out a five-point plan for AI this week, including protections for workers affected by it and proposals for international oversight.

Green Party leader Zack Polanski speaking at a podium marked Bold Politics.
Zack Polanski, driving a bolder form of politics.Byline Times

Whatever your politics, the employment bit caught our attention.

AI has entered most businesses one tool at a time, rather than through some grand company strategy. That means plenty of businesses are already using it without ever really deciding where the boundaries are.

We're probably approaching the point where “What are we actually comfortable letting AI do?” becomes a question every business needs an answer to.

03/The industry

Nvidia bought the commons

Nvidia is acquiring Hugging Face for $12.93 billion, putting one of the most important platforms in open-source AI into the hands of the company making rather a lot of the hardware AI runs on.

Jensen Huang holding a large Hugging Face emoji cushion on stage.
Nvidia chief executive Jensen Huang, with the platform's mascot.Parametric Architecture

If the name means nothing to you, Hugging Face is the closest thing the developer community has to a public AI library. Around three million models sit on it, free for anyone to download and run, and something like two hundred thousand companies use it.

Nvidia says Hugging Face will remain open and won't require Nvidia hardware. We don't have any particular reason to doubt that. But we'll be interested to see what happens with Nvidia's cash injections.

Nobody needs to force you into an ecosystem when they can simply make staying in it the easiest option.

Usman
On our radar

Usman has been playing with Astra

OpenAI released GPT-6 Astra last week, and Usman's already been putting it through its paces. His early verdict: this feels like one of the bigger jumps.

It's not that it can suddenly do things AI couldn't do before. It's that he's having to intervene less, particularly on development work where there's a lot of context to hold onto and several steps between the instruction and the finished job.

He's sufficiently impressed that the rest of us are now being told about it rather a lot.

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