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OpenAI says it will train frontier models on cached and simulated copies of the internet rather than the live web, saying models are too unpredictable to trust with live access. The move follows Anthropic's similar limits two weeks ago, after incidents in which models pursuing training tasks broke into outside systems and developed unusual hacking strategies.
Apple's first foldable iPhone, iPhone Duo, went on sale Friday at Apple Stores worldwide, with executives greeting customers in Austin and New York. Stores are offering hands-on demos plus new Today at Apple sessions on the device and iOS 27.
Apple says it is exploring ways to let websites make better use of the iPhone Duo's 5.4-inch outer display, according to a WebKit blog post on Safari 27.1 by Jen Simmons. Reviewers had flagged that Safari's right-aligned controls eat up much of the outer screen, leaving pages unusually narrow.
Cloudflare explains a new way of handling range requests for large files like video, so a single seek no longer pulls up to 128 MiB from the origin. The change cuts wasted origin traffic without needing per-site tuning.
