Meta says it is rolling out improvements to Meta AI, including the ability to tap profile data from Meta's various apps.

OPPO’s latest series of AI smartphones — the Reno13 series — combines revolutionary AI-drive photography features, like AI Livephoto, with an innovative design. Among its many features, the new Reno13 Pro 5G, Reno13 5G, and Reno13 F 5G / Reno13 F include cutting-edge AI capabilities and unique camera features like underwater photography.

Turns out, in 1999, Adams wrote an essay titled “How to Stop Worrying and Learn to Love the Internet,” and wow does it hold up 26 years later as a way to think about the world we live in now. Here’s just one quote:

At the top of the list, enable Theft detection lock and tap Turn on on the confirmation screen (which explains how the feature works). Just underneath is the Offline device lock toggle switch, and again you can read about how it operates before tapping Turn on to confirm your choice and activate it.

AI-powered search engine Perplexity has launched an "agent," of sorts, called Perplexity Assistant, only on Android for now.

As usual, the Galaxy S25+ is the larger of Samsung’s two standard models, with a 6.7-inch display. By comparison, Google has shrunk things with its Pixel 9 Pro this year, moving down to a 6.3-inch display; you’ll have to opt for the Google Pixel 9 Pro XL if you want the full-sized model.

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Google says the new multimodal Gemini feature is available to all Gemini users on the web, Android and iOS. Google does have a paid AI subscription tier and Samsung has teased charging for Galaxy AI at the end of this year. For now, though, these AI updates are free and accessible to most smartphone users.

Meta's chief AI scientist and others have praised the new open-source reasoning model released by the Chinese AI startup DeepSeek.

Perplexity has released an AI-powered assistant for Android, competing with Google Gemini to perform multi-app actions and more.

Google today has announced that several features introduced at Samsung Unpacked will also be heading to other Android phones soon. Some of these are specific to the Pixel 9 lineup, but most are coming to all recent Android phones. Here's a look at what's on the way.