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📱 Apple orders 10 million foldable iPhone Ultras

🖥️ Anthropic explores custom AI chip with Samsung

🔒 Alibaba bans Claude over backdoor concerns

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Sam Altman used a July 1 Financial Times op-ed to call for a US-led international forum that would set AI safety standards and decide which countries and companies can access the most advanced models.

A separate FT report says OpenAI discussed handing the US government a 5% stake, worth about $42 billion, on the condition that rivals like Anthropic, Meta, and Google agree to similar wealth-sharing.

Altman insists elected representatives, not labs, should make the rules. Yet his forum would let the US decide who accesses top models, conveniently keeping leading American labs near the center of power.

Meta quietly launched Pocket, an app that turns text prompts into playable mini-games it calls gizmos, and wraps them in a scrollable social feed where users play and remix each other's creations.

Pocket grew out of Meta's acquisition of the Gizmo team earlier this year. The app soft-launched around June 29 with no announcement, and reverse engineer Alessandro Paluzzi flagged it on July 2.

Pocket adds to Meta's stack of standalone AI apps, after images in Meta AI and video in Vibes. Gizmo drew 635,000 installs and 98% positive sentiment per Appfigures, a format Meta clearly wants to own.

Apple told suppliers to prepare about 10 million foldable iPhone Ultra units this year, roughly a third more than the 7 to 8 million it planned a few months ago, per a Nikkei Asia report.

The foldable sits on top of roughly 70 million iPhone 18 Pro and Pro Max units, pushing Apple's 2026 order book near 220 million, as it locks down parts aggressively during an industry-wide memory shortage.

IDC pegs the Ultra's average price near $2,500, climbing to $3,000 for more storage, which would make Apple's first foldable its priciest iPhone ever, comfortably into MacBook territory. Apple hasn't confirmed a price.

The Information reported that Anthropic held early-stage talks with Samsung about building a custom AI chip, though it hasn't decided what the chip will do, how powerful it'll be, or how it fits its servers.

Anthropic recently hired Clive Chan, a veteran of OpenAI's custom chip team, signaling the effort has moved past exploration. The company told TechCrunch its existing Amazon, Google, and Nvidia chips stay central to compute plans.

Every big lab now chases its own silicon to loosen Nvidia's grip, yet The Information pegs Nvidia's AI chip share at 74 percent, higher than before the custom-chip race even started.

Alibaba will ban all Anthropic products, including Claude Code, Sonnet, Opus, and Fable, from employee devices starting July 10, after an internal review flagged the coding assistant as high-risk over possible embedded backdoors.

Developers recently found code in Claude Code that checks a user's timezone and proxy settings. Anthropic says the feature blocked account abuse and model distillation, and it removed the mechanism in a July update.

The distrust runs both ways. Anthropic earlier accused Alibaba-linked operators of using tens of thousands of fake accounts to extract Claude data, and Alibaba now steers its engineers toward its own Qoder tool instead.

A) Yes - 47%

B) No - 53% 🏆