Six Questions on the Friday Headlines: End-of-Week News Test

Welcome back to the Friday headlines quiz, the weekly checkpoint for anyone who spent the week pretending to be across everything. Six questions, four options each, answers at the bottom, and no peeking before you commit. This edition of the Friday headlines covers Apple's first folding phone going on sale, a star quarterback's season-ending diagnosis, Anthropic's rumored rush to file for an IPO, a new lock for your ChatGPT conversations, Elon Musk's latest giveaway promise, and a three-hundred-fifty-billion-dollar AI data center fundraising push.

The scoring stays simple. Six out of six on the Friday headlines quiz means you genuinely read the news this week. Four or five means the headlines landed. Three or fewer means it is time to start reading past the Friday headlines, beginning with the stories below. No searching, no group chat lifelines, and no claiming you knew the answer after checking the key.

The questions

Same rules as every edition of this Friday headlines roundup: pick an answer before scrolling to the reveals. Each question about these Friday headlines comes from a story that actually broke or surfaced this week.

One. Apple's first folding phone went on sale on Friday. The iPhone Duo opens from a normal-sized phone into a small tablet, with a five point four-inch screen on the outside and a seven point six-inch screen inside, according to Macworld's reporting. What is the United States starting price? A) One thousand four hundred ninety-nine dollars. B) One thousand nine hundred ninety-nine dollars. C) Two thousand four hundred ninety-nine dollars. D) Two thousand nine hundred ninety-nine dollars.

Two. Philadelphia Eagles quarterback Jalen Hurts is out for the rest of the season. According to ABC News Live's daily rundown of the day's top stories, what ended his season? A) A knee injury that requires surgery. B) Blood clots in his lungs. C) A concussion. D) A torn rotator cuff.

Three. Reports indicate Anthropic could publicly file its Form S-1 registration statement as early as today, setting up a November IPO. According to an AI briefing roundup published Friday, what did the company's first half of the year look like? A) Sixteen point three billion dollars in revenue with a net loss above eighty billion dollars. B) Eighty billion dollars in revenue with a net loss of sixteen point three billion dollars. C) Sixteen point three billion dollars in revenue and a small profit. D) Revenue and loss figures were not disclosed.

Four. OpenAI rolled out a way to lock sensitive ChatGPT conversations this week, expanding the feature even to free-tier plans. The lock uses a four-digit PIN or facial or fingerprint authentication. According to the AI briefing, what does the feature not provide? A) A four-digit PIN option. B) Biometric authentication. C) End-to-end encryption for conversations. D) Access on free-tier plans.

Five. Elon Musk promised this week to give a share of stock to every child in America. According to ABC News Live's rundown, which company did he name? A) Tesla. B) SpaceX. C) Starlink. D) xAI.

Six. SK Group's data center arm, SK Hyper, is talking with big tech firms and financial investors to fund a massive AI data center buildout. CEO Chung Suk-geun discussed the plan on Bloomberg Tech Asia. How large is the planned buildout? A) Thirty-five billion dollars. B) One hundred fifty billion dollars. C) Three hundred fifty billion dollars. D) Nine hundred billion dollars.

The answers

The answers for this week's Friday headlines are below, with a note on where each of these Friday headlines came from.

One. B. The Duo starts at one thousand nine hundred ninety-nine dollars in the United States and tops out at three thousand one hundred ninety-nine dollars, with a titanium frame and two batteries, AIAR News reported, citing Macworld. Demand is intense even at that price: one early buyer in Sydney paid two hundred fifty dollars for someone to stand in line for him, and delivery dates for some United States orders have already slipped to January of twenty twenty-seven. Related reading: Apple's Two-Phone Rule Won't Stop the iPhone Duo Scalpers, according to our earlier reporting.

Two. B. Hurts will miss the rest of the season after blood clots were found in his lungs, ABC News Live's rundown reported. It was one of several big stories in Friday's mix, alongside mass protests in France over living costs and Monday Night Football's 49ers-Commanders matchup.

Three. A. Anthropic posted sixteen point three billion dollars in first-half revenue with a net loss exceeding eighty billion dollars, the AI briefing roundup reported, which said the company could publicly file its Form S-1 as early as today for a November listing. Related reading: The Anthropic Valuation Just Became Tech's Loudest Number, according to our earlier reporting.

Four. C. The lock uses a four-digit PIN or facial or fingerprint authentication, but it does not provide end-to-end encryption for conversations, the AI briefing said. Access is unlocked only after the user approves each account setup. Related reading: The ChatGPT Safety Lawsuit Might Actually Change Something, according to our earlier reporting.

Five. B. Musk said he would give a share of SpaceX stock to every child in America, ABC News Live's rundown reported. The promise came in the same news cycle as the iPhone Duo sellout and the Hurts announcement.

Six. C. Three hundred fifty billion dollars, with big tech firms and financial investors in talks to fund the buildout as AI demand keeps rising, Bloomberg Tech Asia reported.

That is the full Friday headlines rundown for this week. Six questions, six stories, and a solid excuse to bring up the folding phone price at dinner. The Friday headlines quiz returns next week with six more stories and one more round of questions for anyone still catching up.