Morning Scan

Apple's foldable finally has a name and a price tag, AI safety anxiety just got a very public face, and the money keeps flowing into infrastructure nobody can agree on the ethics of. Standard Thursday.

>10% — An Anthropic Alignment Science lead's stated odds that AI could kill all humans within a decade. He's not leaving the company over it — but a colleague just did. (The Verge / WSJ)

Connected World

iPhone Duo to start at $2,000, offer Apple Pencil support

Gurman's pre-event leak dump means Apple's actual keynote is basically a confirmation ceremony at this point. (Six Colors)

Apple's first foldable phone will be called iPhone Duo (paywall)

256GB for $2K, sales as early as October — Apple's finally folding, five years after Samsung. (Bloomberg)

New Apple Watches to get Siri AI 'Recaps' feature

Apple chasing the AI-wearable diary trend a beat behind everyone else, as usual. (AppleInsider)

iPhone Duo: First Developer Good-to-Knows

Six new APIs dropped same-day — Apple wants apps ready before the hardware even ships. (Swiftjective-C)

Machines & Minds

Worried Anthropic researchers warn that AI 'could kill all humans'

A senior safety researcher putting a number on doom is either admirable candor or a marketing problem for Anthropic's own products. (The Verge)

Anthropic researcher quits over out-of-control AI fears (paywall)

Jacob Coxon walking away from the industry he helped build is the kind of resignation letter that gets forwarded around Slack all day. (WSJ)

US intelligence advisory names six Chinese AI firms distilling US models

NSA, FBI, and CISA naming names means "model distillation" is now a national security term of art. (The Next Web)

Hackers are stealing Claude tokens from subscribers

Your $20/month AI subscription is now valuable enough to steal, which is its own kind of market validation. (TechCrunch)

Connected World

Google deepens commitment to Finland with €13B AI infrastructure investment

Includes Google's first-ever nuclear plant life-extension deal — data centers are now literally propping up power plants. (Google)

States roll back tech giants' tax breaks as data center backlash grows (paywall)

Ten-plus states clawing back deals worth $1B+/year each — local goodwill for hyperscaler campuses is souring. (WSJ)

Chime agrees to acquire banking partner Stride Bank for $590M (paywall)

The neobank buys its own plumbing — CHYM popped 8.5% on the news. (Bloomberg)

Malone Lam pleads guilty to $245M crypto racketeering scheme (paywall)

A 22-year-old ran a nine-figure social engineering operation — crypto crime's age demographics remain deeply unsettling. (The Block)