Smartphone launches, AI workstations and security updates

Let me catch you up on what's been happening in tech. Huawei has just launched its Mate 90 Pro smartphone in Shenzhen, boasting a 200-megapixel camera and the Kirin 9050 processor, clearly aimed at competing with Apple's iPhone 18 Pro Max. At the same time, Honor unveiled its Tiangong AXB35 series of compact AI workstations, including an Ultra model built on Nvidia's RTX Spark platform with 128GB of memory packed into a chassis under two liters. In AI news, Anthropic has opened a new biology research lab in the San Francisco Bay Area, using robots to automate lab work in a wet facility. But OpenAI has taken the opposite step, disabling GPT-5.5 across all its products — consumer, business, enterprise and education — with the model set to disappear completely on October 14th. On the security front, a critical flaw was found in Cisco's Identity Services Engine, scoring a perfect 10 out of 10 on the CVSS scale, meaning it's a serious authentication bypass risk. Separately, North Korean hackers are running their 'WaterPlum' campaign, having already infected thousands of devices in a hundred countries to steal cryptocurrency. And over in Kyiv, a hacker used a flaw in the Symbiosis DeFi exchange to mint 46 billion fake bitcoins and walk away with $770,000. That’s the latest from the tech map.