Weekly point: iPhone 18 Pro Max, folding iPhone continuously appear before launch date
(Dan Tri) - Outstanding technology information last week included iPhone 18 Pro Max revealed before launch, Internet speed in Vietnam improved, Tim Cook left the position of Apple CEO, OpenAI launched GPT-6 Astra.
iPhone 18 Pro Max revealed
In a recent post on social network Weibo, the Fixed Focus Digital account revealed the new colors that will appear on the iPhone 18 Pro and iPhone 18 Pro Max. Accordingly, iPhone 18 Pro and iPhone 18 Pro Max will have 3 color options, including Dark Cherry/Burgundy (burgundy), Sky Blue (sky blue), Black (black).
3 color versions are expected to appear on iPhone 18 Pro Max (Photo: MacWorld).
Sky Blue was previously used for the iPhone Air and MacBook Air. This version has light colors and a lot of silver. This source said the blue version will serve as a replacement for the traditional silver/white color.
Meanwhile, the Dark Cherry/Burgundy (burgundy) color version is a completely new option. This color plays a key role, similar to the Cosmic Orange version (cosmic orange) on the iPhone 17 Pro Max generation.
A series of AI services encountered problems
On the evening of September 3, many users around the world reported a widespread service disruption, directly affecting a series of major artificial intelligence platforms such as ChatGPT (including Codex), Claude and Grok.
A series of AI services encountered problems on the evening of September 3 (Photo: Reuters).
Recordings from technology site 9to5Mac showed that the problem prevented users from accessing or using ChatGPT on all platforms, from web versions, mobile applications to desktop applications.
At the same time, Anthropic's AI service Claude also fell into the same situation. xAI representatives also confirmed that the Grok tool is experiencing system problems.
Internet speed in Vietnam has improved
According to data from the Speedtest Global Index tool, Vietnam is witnessing outstanding growth in Internet speed, in both mobile networks and fixed broadband networks.
Internet speed in Vietnam has improved in both mobile networks and fixed broadband networks (Photo: Trung Nam).
Regarding the mobile Internet segment, Vietnam has made a great leap by increasing 10 places to reach 10th position in the world rankings. This impressive achievement helps Vietnam surpass many technological powers such as the US (ranked 12th) or China (ranked 13th).
Along with the development of mobile networks, Vietnam's fixed broadband Internet also witnessed growth, increasing by 1 rank to rise to 7th place globally.
New revelation about folding iPhone
In a recent share, writer Mark Gurman of Bloomberg revealed that the folding screen iPhone (temporarily called iPhone Ultra) will support MagSafe charging.
Folding iPhone build (Photo: Ice Universe).
"According to the information I know, this folding phone will support MagSafe charging. Apple has integrated this technology on the iPhone Air. Therefore, I see no reason why the company cannot bring this feature to its folding phone model," Gurman said.
In a post on social network Twitter, Evan Blass account shared a number of images of different color versions on the folding screen iPhone. Notably, the posted image shows that the folding iPhone will have 3 different color versions, including white, gray and red.
Tim Cook leaves the position of CEO of Apple
On September 1, Tim Cook left the CEO position at Apple after 15 years of service. The person who will replace him in this position is John Ternus, who will hold the role of Senior Vice President in charge of hardware engineering at Apple from 2021, while also overseeing the company's design team.
Tim Cook has held the position of CEO of Apple for 15 years (Photo: Business Insider).
In his farewell letter sent to all Apple employees, Tim Cook evaluated John Ternus "as a great engineer and an excellent thinker", showing that Tim Cook has complete confidence in his successor.
After leaving the CEO position, Tim Cook will take on the role of Executive Chairman at Apple, continuing to participate in directing and making senior strategic decisions at the company.
Softtribution cooperates with JFrog
Softribution is known as a provider of DevSecOps, AI and automation solutions in Vietnam. The company announced its partnership with JFrog, becoming JFrog's consulting and implementation partner in Vietnam, providing DevSecOps maturity assessment services, JFrog Platform deployment, and regulatory compliance consulting services.
Mr. Nguyen Duc Que, General Director of Softribution, shared at the signing ceremony (Photo: The Anh).
The partnership aims to support businesses in the fields of banking, telecommunications, manufacturing, technology and the public sector to modernize the software development lifecycle (SDLC) at high speed in the agentic era.
OpenAI launches GPT-6 Astra
Last week, OpenAI released GPT-6 Astra. OpenAI President Greg Brockman confidently declared that this is the smartest AI model in the world, which can be considered a version of artificial general intelligence (AGI), that is, AI technology capable of performing diverse tasks with performance equal to that of humans.
The GPT-6 Astra artificial intelligence model is considered to be as intelligent as humans, able to do many tasks on its own (Photo: GPT).
OpenAI also emphasized that this AI model is much faster and more efficient than its predecessor GPT-5.6 Sol on many different types of tasks.
Currently, GPT-6 Astra has only been released to certain users in the US for trial use, before expanding to more users.