opinion
The $100 iPhone increase is the real product of Techtember
Apple did not just fold a phone. It raised the floor of the entire lineup in a year when everyone else is talking about agents.
Sam Okonkwo · September 11, 2026
Analysis editor
Sam Okonkwo
Edits The Briefing, Techtember’s weekend essay. Interested in prices, incentives, and what companies actually ship.
ai
OpenAI says it cracked a million-dollar math problem. The proof is one commit.
A formalization of Navier–Stokes appeared in a repository this week. Mathematicians want more than a self-assessed checkbox.
Sam Okonkwo · September 11, 2026
opinion
John Ternus’s first keynote was a handover with a hinge in it
Tim Cook left at the end of August. The first product of the new job is a phone that looks like a passport.
Sam Okonkwo · September 9, 2026