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Samsung updates Bixby to become more conversational

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Samsung Galaxy Unpacked 2026 is Feb. 25 It's now out in select markets with One UI 8.5 beta, including the US. Bixby isn't typically part of the conversation when it comes to virtual assistants for mobile devices, but Samsung is clearly hoping that you would use it more. The company has launched the latest version of Bixby with the new One UI 8.5 beta, and it has been tweaked to work as a "conversational agent." Samsung says you'll now be able to talk to it and give it tasks using natural language, like how you'd talk to other people or, these days, to chatbots. You don't have to remember exact commands or names for specific settings.


Google Play used AI to help block 1.75 million bad apps in 2025

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Samsung Galaxy Unpacked 2026 is Feb. 25 Google Play used AI to help block 1.75 million bad apps in 2025 It also prevented review bombing and banned 80,000 developer accounts. Google has announced that with the help of AI, it blocked 1.75 million apps that violated its policies in 2025, significantly down from 2.36 million in 2024. The lower numbers this year, it said, are because its AI-powered, multi-layer protections are deterring bad actors from even trying to publish bad apps. Google said it now runs more than 10,000 safety checks on every app and continues to recheck them after they're published. Its use of the latest generative AI models helps human reviewers discover malicious patterns more quickly, it added.

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YouTube was down for thousands of users in the US

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Samsung Galaxy Unpacked 2026 is Feb. 25 Valve's Steam Machine: Everything we know It was also down in some other countries. YouTube is experiencing an outage across the United States, with users in other countries like Canada, India, the Philippines, Australia and Russia also having problems with accessing the website. The issue seems to have started at around 8 PM Eastern time and reached 338,000 reports on Downdetector before starting to taper down. More users reported having issues accessing the app, but I personally lost access to the web homepage first. As of 9:22 PM, users are still reporting being unable to access YouTube on Reddit .



WordPress adds an AI assistant

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Samsung Galaxy Unpacked 2026 is Feb. 25 Valve's Steam Machine: Everything we know An expansion of the platform's AI website builder, the tool helps with edits and media creation. The tool is available for WordPress.com's Web designers of the world: The Automattic-owned WordPress.com is further embracing AI on its platform. On Tuesday, it expanded its one-off AI site builder into a persistent AI assistant for editing and media creation. In the site editor, the AI assistant can help with site-wide structure and design choices.


UDC-SIT: A Real-World Dataset for Under-Display Cameras

Neural Information Processing Systems

Under Display Camera (UDC) is a novel imaging system that mounts a digital camera lens beneath a display panel with the panel covering the camera.



Andrey Kuzmin, Markus Nagel, Mart van Baalen, Arash Behboodi, Tijmen Blankevoort Qualcomm AI Research

Neural Information Processing Systems

In this paper, we set out to answer the question on which is better: neural network quantization or pruning? By answering this question, we hope to inform design decisions made on neural network hardware going forward. We provide an extensive comparison between the two techniques for compressing deep neural networks.



OpenAI has hired the developer behind AI agent OpenClaw

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Samsung Galaxy Unpacked 2026 is Feb. 25 Valve's Steam Machine: Everything we know'Peter Steinberger is joining OpenAI to drive the next generation of personal agents.' Recently we were introduced to OpenClaw, an AI that allows users to create their own agents to control apps like email, Spotify and home controls. Now, Sam Altman has announced that OpenAI has absorbed OpenClaw by hiring developer Peter Steinberger to drive the next generation of personal agents, he wrote on X . Steinberger confirmed the news on his own blog . I'm joining OpenAI to work on bringing agents to everyone.