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Apple Caps iPhone Duo Orders as AI, Auto and Cloud Deals Expand

Apple limits iPhone Duo orders to two per customer after preorders sell out, with some deliveries slipping to late January.

AI News Feed · 2026-10-22 10:23

China Newsweek reported that Dewu listings minutes after preorders opened showed several iPhone Duo versions trading above 20,000 yuan; a 1TB black model averaged 28,642 yuan, 7,143 yuan above the official price, while a 256GB black model averaged 22,085 yuan, 6,086 yuan higher, or about 38%. Third-party quotes have since fallen, with several scalpers asking only 3,000 yuan above list and promising stock on the first sale day.

The PHP development team released emergency security updates for CVE-2026-109618 and CVE-2026-109619, two critical flaws that could allow attackers to execute code remotely without authentication. The project said the vulnerabilities sit in PHP's core request handling and can be triggered in Apache mod_php before application code runs; fixed versions are PHP 8.5.12, 8.4.27, 8.3.36 and 8.2.35. PHP 8.1 and older no longer receive regular security updates.

Reuters reported that Samsung and SK Hynix are upgrading their NAND plants in China to meet AI data-center demand and competition from Yangtze Memory. Samsung's Xi'an site plans to shift to 286-layer V9 NAND, targeting 5,000 wafers a month in December and 40,000 by December 2027; the site accounts for about 40% of Samsung's global NAND output and currently makes products around 200 layers. SK Hynix plans to move its Dalian plant from 192 layers to 240 or more. Both companies confirmed equipment work and said they are communicating with the U.S. government, while the Commerce Department said prior policy supported existing plant operations but not expansion or technology upgrades.

Xiaomi's Beijing auto design center opened on Oct. 21. At the World Intelligent Connected Vehicles Conference the same day, founder Lei Jun said that without safety, everything else in the auto industry is zero and that smart performance and design lose meaning. He pointed to Xiaomi's consumer IoT platform, with more than 1.1 billion connected devices by the end of the second quarter, and said the company spent 105.5 billion yuan on hard-core technology research over the past five years and expects to spend more than 200 billion yuan in the next five years.

Handelsblatt reported on Oct. 20 that BMW stopped accepting new applications for its voluntary severance program after thousands of employees expressed interest following the Oct. 8 opening. BMW confirmed the target was reached early and plans to complete processing by mid-November; the program requires agreement from both employee and employer. A surge of workers logging in to view offers crashed the internal HR portal for several hours, and it recovered the next day. Individual packages reported by Handelsblatt exceeded 650,000 euros for senior, higher-paid staff, not as a general standard; BMW aims to cut about 8,000 positions by the end of 2027.

Tesla's third-quarter revenue was $28.046 billion, essentially flat from a year earlier, while GAAP net income attributable to common shareholders fell 43% to $787 million. Deliveries fell 2% to 486,532 vehicles, and free cash flow turned positive.

OpenAI and Google Cloud said OpenAI's frontier models and Codex agent workflows will be added to Google Cloud's Model Garden, with full availability planned in the coming weeks. Enterprises can buy the models through Google Cloud Marketplace and apply the spending toward existing cloud commitments; Microsoft remains OpenAI's primary cloud partner. Nvidia, meanwhile, introduced DSX POD at GTC Berlin, a modular container-based Vera Rubin AI factory that partners build and validate before shipment, with global delivery planned for early 2027 and site deployment cut from six months to as fast as 14 days when power, cooling and network links are ready.

The General Offices of the Communist Party of China Central Committee and the State Council issued an opinion calling for full implementation of the "AI+" action, support for enterprises to lead commercialization of research results and exploration of sandbox regulation in fields such as AI and biotechnology. Leidao reported that DeepSeek's new financing of nearly 100 billion yuan was close to completion at a pre-money valuation of about 500 billion yuan, with industrial investors joining and existing shareholders including Tencent continuing to participate.