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The $1,999 iPhone Duo Has a Black-Bar Problem, and Fixing It Is Harder Than It Looks
Apple's first foldable is a hardware flex. But unfold it and many of your apps shrink into a phone-shaped window floating in black. Here's why the app world wasn't ready, and why developers can't just hit "stretch".

Microsoft criticized for threatening a security researcher
A researcher known as Nightmare Eclipse published unpatched Defender and BitLocker bugs; Microsoft threatened a criminal investigation and the researcher's accounts were banned.

Elon Musk loses his lawsuit against OpenAI and Sam Altman
A California jury unanimously found Musk's claims were filed too late. Musk says he will appeal.

Cerebras stock jumps 108% on day one after $5.5B IPO
AI chipmaker Cerebras raised $5.5 billion in the first huge tech IPO of 2026; shares opened at $385, more than double the IPO price.

Apple to pay $250 million over Siri AI marketing
Apple agreed to a $250 million class-action settlement over claims it advertised Apple Intelligence and Siri features for the iPhone 15 and 16 before they were ready.

Amazon invests $5 billion in Anthropic, which pledges $100 billion to AWS
Anthropic's run-rate revenue has passed $30 billion. The new deal secures up to 5 gigawatts of compute.

LA jury finds Meta and YouTube negligent in landmark social media addiction trial
The jury awarded about $6 million in total to a 20-year-old plaintiff. The case could set the tone for thousands of similar lawsuits.

Claude found 22 security flaws in Firefox in two weeks
In a partnership with Mozilla, Claude Opus 4.6 found Firefox vulnerabilities, 14 of them high-severity.

Apple starts App Store age verification in several countries
In Australia, Brazil and Singapore, 18+ apps can now be downloaded only after a user is confirmed to be an adult.

OpenAI removes GPT-4o from ChatGPT
From Friday, February 13, GPT-4o and four other legacy models are no longer available in ChatGPT.

Google pays $68 million to settle Google Assistant eavesdropping lawsuit
The lawsuit claimed Google Assistant recorded people without "Hey Google". Google did not admit wrongdoing.

SEC drops its lawsuit against the Winklevoss twins' Gemini crypto exchange
The case centred on the collapse of Gemini Earn, where some investors could not access their money for 18 months.

Elon Musk seeks up to $134 billion from OpenAI and Microsoft
Musk's expert says his $38 million in 2015 donations to OpenAI should now be worth far more. Trial starts in April in Oakland.

Nvidia launches Vera Rubin: up to 5x faster than Blackwell for AI
Jensen Huang told CES 2026 that Vera Rubin is in full production, with OpenAI, Anthropic and AWS among its users.