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Apple’s iPhone Duo, Meta’s Muse AI Agent, Anthropic Researcher Quits Over AI Doom | Diet TBPN
With John Coogan, Jordi Hays · Sunday, September 13, 2026
John Coogan and Jordi Hays break down Apple's announcement of the foldable iPhone Duo and discuss whether smartphone hardware has reached its final form. They examine Steve Jobs's 1985 prediction of conversational AI, Meta's release of the Muse personal AI agent to compete with startups like Instinct, and the viral resignation of an Anthropic pre-training researcher over existential AI safety concerns.
Key takeaways
- An Anthropic pre-training researcher with three years across OpenAI and Anthropic resigned publicly, claiming labs are racing toward self-improving superintelligence. Read more →
- John Coogan predicts the new foldable iPhone Duo will sell rapidly at $2,000 to $3,000 maxed out, driven by consumer willingness to spend on their primary screen. Read more →
- Meta launched Muse, a standalone consumer AI agent designed to execute real-world tasks like buying products online through Stripe Link, booking reservations, and managing email. Read more →
- Meta reportedly made a 10-figure acquisition offer for Instinct, a one-year-old AI startup, before building its own personal AI agent named Muse. Read more →
- In a 1985 speech, Steve Jobs predicted modern large language models by imagining a computer that captures Aristotle's worldview so future students can ask him direct questions. Read more →
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