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Apple unveils iPhone Duo

Apple has announced the iPhone Duo, introducing a foldable form factor to its smartphone lineup. The device represents the company's initial entry into the folding hardware segment.

“iPhone Duo, the first foldable iPhone.” — Apple

Apple advances health and fitness capabilities using Apple Intelligence

Apple has announced expanded health and fitness functionality across its smartwatch and smartphone platforms. The updates incorporate the company's intelligence systems to enhance personal wellness tracking.

NVIDIA Brings Real-Time AI to Broadcast, Sports and Global Streaming at IBC

NVIDIA expanded its AI for Media suite with tools targeted at broadcasting and video workflows. The updates include the Synthetic Video Detector microservice for identifying generated footage and the 3D Body Pose software for markerless motion tracking from a single camera. Third-party partners are incorporating these tools into content verification and virtual studio setups.

“Since its initial release, SVD’s accuracy has reached 99.3% for text-to-video content and 97.7% for image-to-video content” — NVIDIA

The internet’s favorite cat comes to Apple Arcade with Pusheen’s Place

Apple announced an update to its Apple Arcade gaming service scheduled for October 1. The upcoming catalog additions include multiple new releases spanning casual collecting games and action titles.

Inside Arm CSS for Mobile 2: The AI-native compute platform for mobile

Arm has introduced CSS for Mobile 2, a compute subsystem tailored for mobile system-on-chips. The platform pairs Arm C2-Ultra and C2-Pro CPUs containing dual SME2 execution blocks with the Mali G2-Ultra NX GPU, which incorporates dedicated neural acceleration hardware for graphics workloads.

“Arm Mali G2-Ultra NX GPU introduces dedicated neural accelerators that enable neural graphics to run natively on the GPU.” — Arm

Inside the Arm Mali G2-Ultra NX GPU: Delivering desktop-class mobile gameplay with AI-native graphics

Arm has introduced the Mali G2-Ultra NX graphics processing unit for mobile devices. The architecture integrates dedicated neural acceleration blocks directly into the shader cores to facilitate AI-driven super sampling, frame rate upscaling, and ray-tracing denoising. It also includes an updated execution engine that increases register capacity to handle more demanding rendering workloads.

“It provides up to 2x more registers per wrap, helping the GPU handle increasingly demanding scenes more efficiently.” — Arm

Sparks Fly: NVIDIA Accelerates Local AI at IFA 2026

NVIDIA announced the RTX Spark PC platform scheduled for launch in October alongside updated inference optimizations for local AI execution. The company highlighted expanded compatibility for several open-weight foundation models across its RTX, DGX, and Jetson hardware, as well as new local networking and agent orchestration tools.

“Perplexity Portable Computer is available on NVIDIA RTX GPUs with at least 24GB VRAM running on Linux, with support on Windows coming soon” — NVIDIA

‘NBA 2K27’ With NVIDIA DLSS 5 Leads 28 New Games Coming to GeForce NOW

NVIDIA added 28 titles to its GeForce NOW cloud streaming service for September, headlined by NBA 2K27 and Onimusha: Way of the Sword. The platform enables DLSS 5 neural rendering features on NBA 2K27 for subscribers accessing GeForce RTX 5080-tier cloud hardware.

“DLSS 5 is available when streaming from a GeForce RTX 5080-powered rig in the cloud.” — NVIDIA

Related: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5080

NVIDIA to Acquire Hugging Face

NVIDIA has entered into an agreement to acquire AI collaboration platform Hugging Face for approximately $12.93 billion. The service will continue to operate as an open platform supporting multi-cloud environments and non-NVIDIA computing hardware.

“NVIDIA has agreed to acquire Hugging Face for $12,930,300,000.” — NVIDIA

Hot Chips 2026: The CPU’s next chapter is being built on Arm

At Hot Chips 2026, several vendors presented upcoming processors built on the Arm architecture for enterprise and AI infrastructure. Implementations included Fujitsu's 144-core MONAKA chip, Nvidia's Vera processor utilizing custom Olympus cores, and a future IBM design engineered to run both IBM Z and Arm AArch64 code on the same CPU core.

“The company’s future Z and LinuxONE processor will natively execute both IBM Z and Arm AArch64 software on the same CPU cores.” — Arm