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Apple's iPhone 18 Pro adds variable camera aperture and a more powerful chip

Ars Technica Samuel Axon 9 September 2026, 17:38 ● Covered by 4 sources

Apple released the iPhone 18 Pro with updated camera controls and a new A20 Pro chip. The A20 Pro is Apple’s first 2 nm iPhone chip. As a result, users get a variable aperture camera and improved AI/ML processing via a larger Neural Engine design, alongside faster CPU and GPU performance.

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There's also a new thermal management system, reducing overheating.

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The biggest thread today wasn’t model performance—it was paperwork. OpenAI and Anthropic both moved to clarify how “most capable” systems handle customer and company data, and the shifts have real service implications for enterprise buyers of top-tier models. Anthropic, for example, is rolling out a requirement tied to a 30-day conversation retention window for companies using Claude “Fable 5,” and only until its Enterprise Frontier Safeguards program becomes broadly available this fall. The practical upshot: some enterprises can upgrade to newer Claude versions during the interim while Anthropic is not holding onto business prompts. OpenAI, meanwhile, positions Private Safety Processing to scan requests automatically without logging business content for staff review—less human inspection, more machine checks.

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