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This Week in AI: OpenAI gains an invaluable infrastructure advantage
<p>Hiya, folks, welcome to TechCrunch’s regular AI newsletter. If you want this in your inbox every Wednesday, sign up here. OpenAI is making gains at the expense of its chief rivals. On Tuesday, the company announced the Stargate Project, a new joint venture involving Japanese conglomerate SoftBank, Oracle, and others to build AI infrastructure for OpenAI in […]</p> <p>© 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.</p>
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Reception: Positive
Streaming service Plex gets more social with public profiles and reviews
<p>Streaming service Plex has long since grown beyond its original focus of being a home for personal media to offer a more comprehensive solution for discovering, streaming, and sharing content across services, including Plex’s own ad-supported free TV and movies. More recently, the company added social networking features, which it’s today expanding with its rollout […]</p> <p>© 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.</p>
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Reception: Positive
Zombie nuclear reactors could be revived thanks to AI data center demand
<p>Hoping to capitalize on the data center power boom, state-owned utility Santee Cooper is looking for partners to finish construction on two incomplete reactors.</p> <p>© 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.</p>
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Reception: Negative
Samsung’s SmartThings to introduce AI features that simplify your daily routines
<p>On Wednesday, Samsung unveiled how SmartThings, its smart home platform, will introduce AI features that allow users to simplify their everyday lives through ambient sensing technology and generative AI. At Samsung Unpacked 2025, the company said the upcoming “Home AI” features will gather insights from a user’s everyday life to create personalized experiences. Samsung shared […]</p> <p>© 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.</p>
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Reception: Negative
Samsung Unpacked 2025: Samsung’s AI-focused Galaxy S25 Ultra ships February 7 for $1,300
<p>Samsung on Wednesday announced the latest additions to its Galaxy S flagship smartphone line at the company’s annual Samsung Unpacked 2025. As suspected, the defining characteristic of the Galaxy S25, S25+, and S25 Ultra is the company’s continued focus on mobile AI — a fact that hardly distinguishes the consumer electronics giant from the rest […]</p> <p>© 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.</p>
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Reception: Positive
Samsung Unpacked: The Samsung Galaxy S25’s side button fires up Google Gemini
<p>A new day has dawned for the Samsung side button. At Samsung Unpacked 2025 on Wednesday, the company announced a small — but meaningful — tweak arriving on the Galaxy S25 line. As it continues to focus more efforts on mobile AI, Samsung is offering up easier access to Google Gemini, by way of the […]</p> <p>© 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.</p>
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Reception: Positive
Samsung Unpacked 2025: Google is bringing improved hearing aid features
<p>Alongside a slew of announcements tied to Samsung’s Galaxy S25 launch at Samsung Unpacked 2025 on Wednesday, Google announced a pair of accessibility improvements for Android. This includes improvements to the screen reader, along with hearing aid functionality. The hearing aid updates arrive after Google expanded the offering as part of its Android 15 rollout. […]</p> <p>© 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.</p>
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Reception: Neutral
Samsung Unpacked: Google makes Circle to Search more helpful
<p>At Samsung Unpacked 2025 on Wednesday, Google announced that it’s updating Circle to Search to make it easier for users to find information and get things done. The feature, which launched last year, allows people to search from anywhere on their phone by using gestures like circling, highlighting, scribbling, or tapping. Now Google is expanding […]</p> <p>© 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.</p>
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Reception: Neutral
Samsung Unpacked: Samsung’s Galaxy S25 arrives with a better Google Gemini
<p>At Samsung’s Unpacked 2025 on Wednesday, the company unveiled the Galaxy S25, Galaxy S25+, and Galaxy S25 Ultra. Google marked the occasion with a slew of Android updates, including key updates to its AI assistant, Gemini. Starting Wednesday, users can access an improved Gemini, which integrates into apps and services across a device. In a […]</p> <p>© 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.</p>
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Reception: Positive
Samsung Unpacked 2025: Samsung Galaxy S25 line compared
<p>Samsung revealed three new additions to its Galaxy smartphone line at Samsung Unpacked 2025 on Wednesday. The news didn’t bring too many surprises, as the line maintains its usual tiered system with the Galaxy S25, Galaxy S25+, and Galaxy S25 Ultra. The news finds the hardware in line with the rest of the mobile industry […]</p> <p>© 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.</p>
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Reception: Positive