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👍 Chefs know best

Dubai-born byChefs is taking its chef-powered restaurant rankings to new markets, with London, Milan, Singapore and New York next on its expansion list. The platform has already brought together more than 500 leading chefs, whose votes determine which restaurants make the rankings in each city.

The next step is a consumer app featuring an AI-powered dining concierge, built around the same chef recommendations and designed to help users find restaurants for specific occasions, dishes or locations.

Inside byChefs and its global expansion:

↖️ https://durovscode.com/bychefs-dubai-global-restaurant-ranking-chefs-ai-concierge

🛸 AI around the house

Nvidia has launched PAIR, a free open-source tool that distributes AI workloads across compatible computers on the same home network.

How it works:

↖️ https://durovscode.com/nvidia-pair-local-ai-cluster-home-pcs

🧠 GPT-6 Astra

OpenAI has launched its new flagship model, GPT-6 Astra, calling the release the beginning of the AGI era.

Astra was trained on more than 100,000 GPUs and set records in several reasoning and science benchmarks.

Benchmarks, pricing, API access and rollout details:

↖️ https://durovscode.com/openai-gpt-6-astra-launch-benchmarks-features

😀 Nvidia buys Hugging Face

Nvidia is acquiring Hugging Face for nearly $13 billion, bringing the major open-source AI platform into its expanding ecosystem.

What happens to the platform now:

↖️ https://durovscode.com/nvidia-acquires-hugging-face-11-9-billion

😄 Time to slow down

Sam Altman says OpenAI had to slow the training of a new frontier model after a sharp jump in capabilities during reinforcement learning.

Why OpenAI hit the brakes:

↖️ https://durovscode.com/sam-altman-self-learning-ai-risks-openai

🤗 Fair use wins one

The US government has sided → with OpenAI in its copyright fight with The New York Times, arguing that copyrighted material can legally be used to train AI models under fair use.

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😆 Careful where you tap

A new WhatsApp vulnerability on Android can expose private photos without requiring the phone to be unlocked.

Not every Android device is affected:

↖️ https://durovscode.com/whatsapp-android-lock-screen-photo-vulnerability

😏 See you in court

TCL is suing Samsung, claiming it sold conventional LED TVs as premium Mini LED models.

What the lawsuit claims:

↖️ https://durovscode.com/tcl-sues-samsung-mini-led-false-advertising

🤩 Free Claude

Anthropic is opening 10,000 spots for researchers worldwide, offering free access to Claude for a year and up to $50,000 in compute credits for eligible research projects.

Some restrictions remain:

↖️ https://durovscode.com/anthropic-free-claude-access-scientists-researchers

🤔 Multitasking, sort of

The iPhone Ultra will reportedly be limited to two apps on screen at once. Some apps will get more iPad-like layouts, but full windowed multitasking isn’t expected.

There are a few better details, though:

↖️ https://durovscode.com/iphone-ultra-foldable-two-apps-multitasking

😄 Canva has company

Google has started rolling out Google Pics, a new image creation and editing tool for Workspace. Powered by the latest version of Nano Banana, the service works much like Canva.

What it can do:

↖️ https://durovscode.com/google-rolls-out-nano-banana-powered-pics-image-editor-for-workspace

🧠 Fable 5 gets a rethink

Anthropic has released Claude Fable 5.1 and Mythos 5.1, addressing some of the biggest complaints about Fable 5. The new version is around 25% cheaper, adds stronger data privacy and relaxes safeguards that were blocking legitimate requests.

Fable 5.1 can now also help researchers find software vulnerabilities.

What else is new:

↖️ https://durovscode.com/anthropic-claude-fable-5-1-mythos-5-1-launch

😏 So, which leak is it?

Another leak claims the iPhone 18 Pro could come in three finishes: Dark Cherry or burgundy, Sky Blue and black.

The latest color rumors:

↖️ https://durovscode.com/iphone-18-pro-colors-reveal

🍏 One more look before launch

New iPhone Ultra dummy units have surfaced a week before Apple’s event, showing a rounder body, a more integrated hinge, a redesigned camera module and a revised speaker layout around USB-C.

The iPhone 18 Pro Max was also shown in two possible new finishes, Rose Crimson and Space Black.

More photos:

↖️ https://durovscode.com/iphone-ultra-dummy-final-design-leak

🤐 Neo, we have a problem

With just 8GB of memory, the base MacBook Neo could burn through its built-in SSD at an alarming rate. One estimate suggests the entry-level model could exhaust its drive endurance in less than two months.

How long each version could last and why there’s no easy fix:

↖️ https://durovscode.com/macbook-neo-8gb-ssd-wear-swap-memory

😘 Android and iOS get company

Huawei announced plans at HEC 2026 to bring its HarmonyOS operating system to international markets.

How the rollout will work:

↖️ https://durovscode.com/huawei-harmonyos-global-launch-outside-china

🧠 Welcome to the big leagues

The EU has classified ChatGPT as one of its largest online services, putting it under stricter requirements of the Digital Services Act.

What changes for ChatGPT:

↖️ https://durovscode.com/chatgpt-eu-vlop-dsa-designation

🦴 Enter Gram

Pavel Durov has announced the launch of Gram Wallet in Telegram. Over the next two weeks, access will gradually roll out to more than a billion users:

↖️ https://durovscode.com/telegram-gram-wallet-users-rollout

🫡 Claude sessions hijacked

Anthropic is logging affected Claude users out and removing their saved payment methods after infostealer malware began hijacking active browser sessions.

How the attacks work:

↖️ https://durovscode.com/claude-session-hijacking-infostealer-malware

🧠 AI wants Macs

Apple refreshed → the Mac mini and Mac Studio unusually early, driven by surging demand from businesses buying Macs for AI workloads.

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