Xiaomi showed the mid-fold

Poco put two hundred on the back

F9 Ultra and F9 Pro, 1 September. 200MP main with OIS on both. Ultra adds a 5× periscope Poco claims as 10× lossless and 20× processed. 8,050 mAh on the Ultra.

The case carries the radio

Plaud One Explorer Edition is 2,000 units at US$249.99. The charging case has 4G LTE and an eSIM. Eight countries. The United States page is waitlist. A NotePin thirty-percent offer ends 30 August.

The socket is nineteen fifty-four

Intel’s Design-In Tools store listed an ILM kit for LGA1954 NVL-S on 30 August. Nova Lake-S will not drop into today’s LGA1851 boards.

Blindsight human trials are in the window

Elon Musk said on 24 August 2026 that Blindsight human implants are six to 12 months out. FDA Breakthrough designation is 17 September 2024. There are still zero human Blindsight implants on the public record.

VOICE is the speech trial

Neuralink’s VOICE study (NCT07224256) is recruiting at UT Southwestern. Enrollment is listed as six. Start 3 October 2025, primary completion October 2028. The speech stack is a different product from Telepathy’s cursor.

Twenty-one Neuralnauts

Neuralink says 21 people are now in human trials worldwide. The company’s own Telepathy post puts numbers on bits per second, hours a day, and a safety line of zero serious device-related events.

Apple opens Core AI so apps load a model like a font

WWDC, 8 June. The inference stack behind Apple Intelligence is now a Swift API, a .aimodel file, and a public Qwen, Mistral, and SAM 3 repository.

Apple’s bigger on-device model needs 12 GB and an iPhone 17 Pro

WWDC, 8 June. Expressive Siri and advanced dictation stay on the 12 GB phones. The base iPhone 17, at 8 GB, does not get them.

Mac Studio gets the Ultra

On 25 August Apple put M5 Max and M5 Ultra in the Studio cylinder. Pre-order now. Ships 22 September. 512 GB in late October.

Apple put 2-nanometer M6 in the Mac mini and M5 Ultra in the Studio

25 August pre-order. Ships 22 September. M6 mini from US$899. M5 Ultra Studio from US$5,499. Apple’s numbers, Apple’s tests.