Friday’s wire, minus the duplicates in eight languages. What’s worth a click, then a short tour of five small infrastructure projects headed to Cloudflare Connect. Press releases worth reading Tesla posts Q3 2026 numbers. Production, deliveries and energy deployments for the third quarter are out, the usual early read before earnings. Thales on frontier AI as an attack tool. Thales has put out a global framework for protecting critical organizations against attacks built with frontier AI models.

Friday’s wire leaned hard toward capital going into physical things. Reactors, cathode plants, industrial printers. The AI announcements were there too, but they had a different shape than they did a year ago, and that shift is the more interesting story. Hardware got the big cheques Antares picked up a $161 million Strategic Breakthrough Award to demonstrate a space reactor. That is a demonstration contract, not a production one, and the gap between those two things has swallowed plenty of nuclear programs before.

A day of wire traffic, sorted. Apple took the consumer slot, but the money moved in orbit, in private credit, and in defense. Apple unveiled the iPhone Duo, the iPhone 18 Pro and Pro Max, Apple Watch Series 12 with an all-new Health Sensing System, Apple Watch Ultra 4, and AirPods 5. Six product releases inside forty minutes, which is a lot even by Apple’s standards. The Watch line carries the interesting claim: Apple says Series 12 delivers the most accurate heart rate sensing in a wearable, and it’s pairing that sensor work with Apple Intelligence for health and fitness.

Apple folded a phone and raised prices across the board. Underneath that, a memory startup came out of stealth with half a billion dollars and a claim that should worry a few people in Hsinchu. Apple unveiled the iPhone Duo, its first foldable, at $1,999 for 256GB and $3,199 for 2TB. A 5.4-inch outer display and a 7.6-inch inner one, with Touch ID, Apple Pencil support, and an iOS 27 rebuilt around multitasking that adjusts to screen size and orientation.

A quick scan of the most talked-about corporate announcements from the past week. McDonald’s & Netflix team up for KPop Demon Hunters meals. Starting March 31, two new limited-time adult meals arrive at McDonald’s locations, with exclusive photocards and flavors inspired by the chain’s South Korean menu. This is the latest in a string of entertainment-brand crossovers that McDonald’s has leaned into heavily since its “Famous Orders” celebrity meal era. What makes this one different is the cultural specificity — pulling menu items from South Korea rather than just slapping a logo on existing products signals a more sophisticated approach to the K-wave, and an acknowledgment that the franchise’s global menu is itself a marketing asset.

The posts, moments, and memes that dominated feeds this week — across X, Instagram, TikTok, and Truth Social. Trump re-posts the “King Trump” fighter jet AI video on Truth Social — the same day millions marched against him. On Saturday, as the third No Kings protests swept across 3,300+ cities, Trump responded by re-sharing an AI-generated video depicting himself piloting a fighter jet labeled “KING TRUMP” and dropping what appears to be sewage on crowds of demonstrators.