Samsung’s SmartThings to Introduce AI Features that Simplify Your Daily Routines

Samsung's SmartThings platform is introducing new AI features designed to simplify daily routines through ambient sensing technology and generative AI. At Samsung Unpacked 2025, the company revealed that these features will use advanced sensors to detect activities like cooking, exercising, and sleeping, and create personalized experiences. All data will be stored locally for privacy.

Musk Undercuts Trump on Stargate AI Investment Announcement

Elon Musk and OpenAI CEO Sam Altman are clashing over the Stargate AI infrastructure project, which is supported by President Donald Trump. The project, involving OpenAI, Oracle, and SoftBank, aims to invest up to $500 billion in AI infrastructure. Musk, a close Trump adviser, questioned the project's funding, while Altman defended it, highlighting its benefits for the country. This public dispute is part of a long-standing rivalry between Musk and Altman.

Apple Urged to Withdraw 'Out of Control' AI News Alerts

Apple has temporarily suspended a feature in its beta iPhone software that used artificial intelligence to generate news summaries, after it produced several errors, false headlines, and caused controversy. The feature, part of the iOS 18.3 beta, was found to fabricate information, leading to complaints from media organizations like the BBC. The spread of false information like the information the AI was generating could potentially be dangerous. Apple is working to fix the issue before reintroducing the feature.

Amazon's AI Lead Says Technical Issues are Holding Alexa Back

Amazon had been planning to roll out a new Alexa powered by generative AI in October 2024, but that obviously didn't happen. According to reports that came out back then, the company pushed back its new voice assistant's release to sometime this year. Now, a new report by The Financial Times says the company still needs to be able to overcome "several technical hurdles" before it can launch a more powerful version of Alexa.

New OpenAI Job Listings Reveal Its Robotics Plans

In a post on X on Friday, Caitlin Kalinowski, who joined OpenAI to lead hardware last November from Meta’s AR glasses division, said that OpenAI will develop its own robots — complete with a custom sensor suite. In the post, Kalinowski spotlighted new OpenAI robotics job listings with additional info.

X Launches Grok’s iPhone App in The US

xAI has released an iOS app in the US for its Grok chatbot, as spotted earlier by TechCrunch. The standalone app version of the chatbot, which xAI calls a beta, can perform the same functions as the one built into X, as it can field real-time information, answer questions, and generate images.

Omi, a Competitor to Friend, Wants to Boost Your Productivity Using AI and a ‘Brain Interface’

A San Francisco startup Based Hardware has launched a new wearable AI device called Omi at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. The wearable can we worn as a necklace or attached to the side of the head using a "brain interface" to detect when users are speaking to it. Designed to boost productivity, the devices leverages GPT-4o to answer questions, summarize conversations, create to-do list, schedule meetings, etc.

CES 2025: NVIDIA Highlights

NVIDIA founder and CEO Jensen Huang kicked off CES 2025 with a 90-minute keynote, yesterday, January 6th. AI has been “advancing at an incredible pace,” he said before an audience of more than 6,000 packed into the Michelob Ultra Arena in Las Vegas. “It started with perception AI — understanding images, words, and sounds. Then generative AI — creating text, images and sound,” Huang said. Now, we’re entering the era of “physical AI, AI that can proceed, reason, plan and act.”

LG and Samsung TV's Will Implement Microsoft’s Copilot AI Assistant

LG and Samsung have both announced their 2025 smart TVs at CES this weekend, and some of them will include access to Microsoft’s Copilot AI assistant. Both TV manufacturers are chasing the artificial intelligence hype train with dedicated AI sections on their smart TVs that include a shortcut to a Copilot web app.

From Microsoft to Nvidia, the AI Agents are Coming in 2025

Companies like Microsoft, Nvidia, Google, and Salesforce are developing advanced AI bots to perform tasks on behalf of users. These AI agents are going to rise in 2025 and aim to simplify time-consuming activities, such as data extraction and app integration, improving efficiency and productivity. They also have a positive impact on internal company metrics, such as increased IT self-help success and revenue per seller.

Google is Using Anthropic’s Claude to Improve its Gemini AI

Google has been using Anthropic's Claude AI model to help train and improve their Gemini AI. There have been concerns, however, on whether or not they have gotten permissions from Anthropic to use Claude in such a way, but it has been used to compare the outputs of both models. Evaluating the accuracy and safety of responses allows the contractors to enhance Gemini's performance.

From ChatGPT to Gemini: How AI is Rewriting the Internet

AI is growing and everchanging, and it is becoming harder and harder to track its progress. The Verge has put together a timeline to track all the changes, updates, information, and more of all the changes in AI.

12 Days of OpenAI

To kick off the holiday season, OpenAI started “12 Days of OpenAI” on December 5, each day unveiling new features and models for its growing ChatGPT product ecosystem in a series of live-stream events. Find out more about these special new features in these recap videos!

Google Reveals AI That 'Explicitly' Shows Its Thought's

Google has introduced a new AI “reasoning” model capable of answering complex questions while also providing a rundown of its “thoughts,” as reported earlier by TechCrunch. The model, called Gemini 2.0 Flash Thinking, is still experimental and will likely compete with OpenAI’s o1 reasoning model.

Trend Micro, a cybersecurity vendor, has rolled out a new “AI brain”

Trend Micro, a cybersecurity firm, has developed an AI-powered "brain" designed to anticipate and defend against cyber threats. This innovative technology, trained on a massive dataset of threat intelligence, enables Trend Micro's systems to learn from experience, adapt to new threats, and make predictions about potential attacks.

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