The Honor Magic 9 Pro Max

Honor just announced the Magic 9 Pro Max smartphone with an absolute beast of a camera. The company partnered with German camera manufacturer ARRI to bring cinema-grade features to its new flagship. It promises more realistic-looking footage than what the Apple iPhone 18 Pro Max produces, which is a big claim.

From a specs perspective, the 200MP OmniVision OV52A main camera, 50MP ultrawide-angle sensor and a 200MP Samsung S5KHPE telephoto lens sound promising.

With the Snapdragon 8 Elite mobile processor with 2nm tech, this could be a phone worth keeping on your radar, especially if you're in one of the countries that'll actually get it.

The Meta VR Glasses has Apple asking questions about Vision Pro

The Meta VR Glasses may not be launching until next year, but they've already impressed early critics, including our own Scott Younker, who tried them at Meta Connect last week. Also impressed was Bloomberg's Mark Gurman who claimed in his Power On newsletter that the Meta VR Glasses are the product Apple's Vision Pro "should have been".

According to Gurman, Apple's Vision team is now working on a revamped headset codenamed "N224" that includes four different concepts. One of which offloads the internal components into an external puck in a similar way to Meta's headset. This would make the device lighter and less bulky but apparently not everyone at Apple is convinced.

Either way, the Vision Pro has failed to make much of a dent — probably due to the $3,499 price, even though Gurman notes it outclasses the Meta VR Glasses in several technical areas.

Australian Prime Minister confronts Sam Altman over OpenAI's government hack

Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has apparently spoken to OpenAI CEO Sam Altman regarding the company's AI hacking an Australian government website. Albenese was in New York and told reporters that no personal information is believed to have been accessed by the rogue AI — which compromised an Australian public health website back in June.

The Prime Minister reportedly told Altman his country feels "extreme concern about this incident" and expressed his "disappointment that it took the company way too long to inform the government what had occurred and the nature of the way that that notification occurred as well was unacceptable."