The company showed off the new Galaxy S25 series at its Galaxy Unpacked event today in San Jose, California. Samsung has once again loaded its flagship phones with artificial intelligence capabilities, and while many of those features are tricks we've seen before--even almost a decade ago--they have now been infused with large language models that make them more effective. One of the Galaxy S25 Ultra's stylus features is being rebranded from "Smart Select" to "AI Select," and a Samsung executive joked, "Smart Select really wasn't that smart," highlighting the efficacy of the new multimodal LLMs powering the feature (and the lengths these companies go to make every little feature sound "smart"). The Galaxy S25 range is comprised of the Galaxy S25 ( 800), Galaxy S25 ( 1,000), and Galaxy S25 Ultra ( 1,300). The phones are available for preorder today and will officially go on sale February 7. Here's what's new, including a breakdown of the AI features that were given the spotlight.

President Donald Trump on Tuesday announced a 500 billion joint venture between OpenAI, Softbank, MGX and Oracle to build new datacenters to power the next wave of artificial intelligence (AI) – in an early signal that his Administration would embrace the technology. The plans, which predate the Trump Administration and involve no U.S. government funds, would result in the construction of large datacenters on U.S. soil containing thousands of advanced computer chips required to train new AI systems. "We want to keep it in this country; China's a competitor," Trump said of AI. "I'm going to help a lot through emergency declarations – we have an emergency, we have to get this stuff built." The message echoed recent talking points by the heads of AI companies like Sam Altman of OpenAI, who flanked him during the White House announcement. Altman has argued more vocally in recent months that the U.S. must race to build the energy and datacenter infrastructure in order to create powerful AI before China.

US President Donald Trump has announced a private sector investment to fund infrastructure for artificial intelligence, with the goal of outpacing rival nations in the business-critical technology. Calling it the largest AI infrastructure project in history "by far", Trump said the joint venture called Stargate will build data centres and create more than 100,000 jobs in the United States. These companies, along with other equity backers of Stargate, have committed billions of dollars for immediate investment, with the remaining investment expected to occur over the next four years. Here's what you need to know about what Trump called "a resounding declaration of confidence in America's potential": It's a joint venture between OpenAI, Oracle, SoftBank and MGX that plans to invest up to 500bn over the next four years to build up new data centres needed for the development of AI projects in the US. A first injection of 100bn will start "immediately," according to an OpenAI statement.

OpenAI spent 1.76 million on government lobbying in 2024 and 510,000 in the last three months of the year alone, according to a new disclosure filed on Tuesday--a significant jump from 2023, when the company spent just 260,000 on Capitol Hill. The disclosure is a clear signal of the company's arrival as a political player, as its first year of serious lobbying ends and Republican control of Washington begins. While OpenAI's lobbying spending is still dwarfed by bigger tech players, the uptick comes as it and other AI companies are helping redraw the shape of AI policy. Forget massive steel tanks--some scientists want to make chemicals with the help of rocks deep beneath Earth's surface. New research shows that ammonia, a chemical crucial for fertilizer, can be produced from rocks at temperatures and pressures that are common in the subsurface.

OpenAI will build and open AI infrastructure worth 500 billion in the United States over the next four years in partnership with SoftBank. The two entities have teamed up to establish a new company called the Stargate Project to build AI data centers for the ChatGPT maker, and according to their announcement, it will "secure American leadership in AI" as well as "create hundreds of thousands of American jobs." SoftBank will finance the project, while OpenAI will be in charge of its operations. Masayoshi Son, the CEO of SoftBank, will serve as its chairman. While OpenAI and SoftBank will serve as the Stargate Project's lead partners, there are several other companies involved in the initiative. In addition to OpenAI, Arm, NVIDIA, Oracle and, of course, Microsoft will be its key initial technology partners.

Trying to model the physical reality by assembling various modalities: the image shows a couple of oranges seen through the lens of multiple modalities, with each slice showing a different way one might perceive and understand this scene. The modalities from left to right represent surface normals (the color represents surface orientation), depth (distance to the camera, red near, blue far), RGB (the original image), segmentation (distinct objects and image regions), and edges (object or texture boundaries). Large Language Models such as OpenAI's ChatGPT have already transformed the way many of us go about some of our daily tasks. These generative artificial intelligence chatbots are trained with language -- hundreds of terabytes of text'scraped' from across the Internet and with billions of parameters. Looking ahead, many believe the'engines' that drive generative artificial intelligence will be multimodal models that are not just trained on text but also can process various other modalities of information, including images, video, sound, and modalities from other domains such as biological or atmospheric data. Yet, until recently, training a single model to handle a wide range of modalities – inputs – and tasks – outputs – faced significant challenges.

SoftBank Group, OpenAI and Oracle are forming a half-a-trillion dollar venture in the United States that will develop artificial intelligence infrastructure with warp-speed-type support from the U.S. government. SoftBank Chairman and CEO Masayoshi Son will be the chairman of Stargate, the new company being formed, while SoftBank will be responsible for financial management of the venture. Arm Holdings, a Nasdaq-listed subsidiary of SoftBank, will provide chip technology. Microsoft, Nvidia and Oracle will also be key vendors.

OpenAI kicked off the AI race in 2022 with the launch of its ChatGPT bot, which offered lifelike responses to questions and showcased the rapid advances in the technology. It has prompted a gush of investment, including in the specialised data centres needed to power the computing. But the projected surge in demand for the centres, which will require huge amounts of power to run and money to be built, has raised concerns about the impact on energy supplies and questions about the role of foreign investors. In one of his final acts in the White House, former President Joe Biden put forward rules that would restrict exports of AI-related chips to dozens of countries around the world, saying the move would help the US control the industry. He also issued orders related to the development of data centres on government land, which spotlighted a role for clean energy in powering the centres.

President Donald Trump on Tuesday talked up a joint venture investing up to 500 billion for infrastructure tied to artificial intelligence by a new partnership formed by OpenAI, Oracle and SoftBank. The new entity, Stargate, will start building out data centers and the electricity generation needed for the further development of the fast-evolving AI in Texas, according to the White House. The initial investment is expected to be 100 billion and could reach five times that sum. "It's big money and high quality people," said Trump, adding that it's "a resounding declaration of confidence in America's potential" under his new administration. Joining Trump fresh off his inauguration at the White House were Masayoshi Son of SoftBank, Sam Altman of OpenAI and Larry Ellison of Oracle.

United States President Donald Trump has announced a 500bn joint venture with Texas-based tech firm Oracle, Japan's SoftBank and ChatGPT-maker OpenAI to advance artificial intelligence infrastructure. Trump made the announcement at a White House event on Tuesday that was joined by Softbank CEO Masayoshi Son, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, and Oracle Chief Technology Officer Larry Ellison. Trump said the venture would be the largest AI infrastructure project in history "by far" and represented "a resounding declaration of confidence in America's potential" under his new administration. As you know, there's great competition for AI and other things and they are coming in at the highest level," Trump said. Shares of Tokyo-based Softbank Group soared more than 8 percent on Wednesday following the announcement.