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   iPhone Duo preorders slip to late January, a record wait for Apple

   Apple opened iPhone Duo preorders on October 16, but within about half an hour the US online store showed a January 25 ship date for every color, capacity and carrier configuration — a record wait for a new iPhone. Bloomberg's Mark Gurman attributed the backlog mainly to "extraordinary supply chain constraints," with tricky components reportedly hitting high failure rates in manufacturing. Buyers wanting one sooner can try carriers or retailers: T-Mobile and Best Buy list October 23 to November 3, AT&T shows November 9 or December 1, and Verizon November 6 to December 4; the phone goes on sale in the US on October 23, and Apple stores typically hold limited in-store stock.

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   Cursor investigated whether confidential test data reached SpaceX AI's Grok Bot training

   Citing internal communications and two people familiar with the project, The Information reported that in late July, Cursor engineers raised concerns that data generated by internal testing and everyday employee use of the agent Grok Bot (internally codenamed Sand) may have contained confidential information about customers, suppliers and business partners, and may have been sent to SpaceX's AI unit, referred to in the coverage as SpaceX SI. Cursor opened an internal investigation whose findings remain undisclosed, and it has since required employees to log in only with corporate email and decided that employee usage data will no longer be included in future model training; one of its lawyers said internally that the company may not have had the legal right to train on that data. The report also describes a separate summer incident in which customer information — including data tied to Verizon, Bosch and Coupa — was exposed on Cursor sales and marketing sites built on Vercel because passwords were written directly into the underlying code, prompting engineers to take the sites offline. SpaceX SI did not respond to a request for comment.

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   Verizon gives eligible customers six months of Google AI Pro free

   Verizon announced that eligible customers can get six months of Google AI Pro at no cost, whereas the perk was previously only a discount that still left users paying $10 per month alongside their phone or internet plan. Google AI Pro is Google's mid-tier AI plan, priced at $19.99 per month. Verizon is also including Verizon Family and Call Filter at no extra cost, giving free-tier Digital Secure subscribers one month of Digital Secure Premium, and previewing upcoming Verizon Shine loyalty experiences such as a Walt Disney Studios visit and Radio City Rockettes tickets.

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