This Week in Tech: October 22 to 30, 2026

Apple's first foldable phone went on sale on October 23. By the next day, owners in several countries were posting photos of inner screens cracked straight down the hinge. That is the first of six stories this week.

Apple's $1,999 foldable has a hinge problem

The iPhone Duo is Apple's first foldable. Owners say the inner display cracks along the fold, sometimes within hours, and some describe a stiff hinge or a crunching sound first. On October 26, Apple said a small number of units are affected and told owners to contact AppleCare for a replacement. AppleCare+ is not required.

iFixit's teardown points at the hinge. A central support bar may not lower as the phone closes, or curved guide rails may rise into the screen. iFixit says these are possible causes, not a confirmed diagnosis. A folding screen bends every time you open the phone, so the hinge has to keep every part clear of the glass. That is a tolerance problem, the kind mechanical design courses warn about.

Read more: 9to5Mac

Anthropic filed to go public

On October 26, Anthropic, the company that makes Claude, filed an S-1. That is the public paperwork a company submits before an IPO, the first time it sells shares to ordinary investors. It plans to list on Nasdaq under the ticker ANT.

The filing shows $16.3 billion in revenue for the first half of 2026, alongside an $80.7 billion net loss. The loss looks alarming, but $72.4 billion of it came from accounting changes in the value of convertible notes and similar instruments as the company's valuation rose. Anthropic also reported its first quarterly operating profit, $974 million, in the second quarter. The share count and price are not set yet. Reuters reported a likely valuation near $1.5 trillion, and Bloomberg said marketing could begin the week of November 9.

Read more: Yahoo Finance

OpenAI's new model costs half as much

OpenAI released GPT-6.1 Terra on October 26. Its main skill is "computer use": it looks at a screen, opens apps and fills in forms for you. API pricing is $1 per million input tokens and $5 per million output tokens. Tokens are the chunks of text a model reads and writes, roughly a word or part of one.

OpenAI says that price is 50% below GPT-5.6 Terra and that Terra finishes tasks over three times faster than GPT-6 Astra and GPT-6.1 Sol. Those are OpenAI's own figures. If you build projects on AI APIs, lower prices stretch a small budget further.

Read more: BleepingComputer

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