OpenAI's smart speaker 🔊

📢 AI News Roundup: What's New in the AI World?

• 👀 Apple's Next Big Thing Is a Push Into Visual AI

• 🔐Anthropic Launches Claude Code Security

• 🌌 Samsung is adding Perplexity to Galaxy AI

• ⚡️AI startup’s custom chip gives AI a 10x speed boost

• 💡 AI Tutorial:How to create Instagram product shots with Nano Banana

• 🤯 6 new AI Tools

• 🖼️ A.I. Generated Image of the Day

🔊 OpenAI's first AI device could be a smart speaker

OpenAI-Jony Ive's first hardware product will reportedly be a $200-$300 smart speaker with a built-in camera and facial recognition for purchases, according to The Information — backed by a 200+ team aiming to ship it by early 2027. The team formed when OAI acquired Ive's startup Io Products for $6.5B in May, bringing in Apple veterans to lead hardware, design, and supply chain.

The Lithium Boom is Heating Up

Thanks to growing demand, lithium stock prices grew 2X+ from June 2025 to January 2026. $ALB climbed as high as 227%. $LAC hit 151%. $SQM, 159%.

But the real winner may be a stock not listed on public exchanges, EnergyX.

This $1B unicorn’s patented technology can recover 3X more lithium than traditional methods. That’s earned investment from leaders like General Motors.

Now they’re preparing for commercial production just as experts project 5X demand growth by 2040. They’ve announced what could be one of the US’ largest lithium production facilities and have rights to approximately 150,000 lithium-rich acres across North and South America.

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👀 Apple's Next Big Thing Is a Push Into Visual Artificial Intelligence

The defining feature of Apple's push into wearable AI devices will be Visual Intelligence. Apple CEO Tim Cook has been dropping hints about AI wearables built around AI technology that can see the surrounding environment and use that context to take action. The company is working on its own visual models with the intention of making them central to its upcoming set of AI devices,

🔐Anthropic Launches Claude Code Security for Vulnerability Scanning

Anthropic has begun to roll out a new security feature for Claude Code that can scan a user's software codebase for vulnerabilities and suggest patches. The capability, called Claude Code Security, is currently available in a limited research preview to Enterprise and Team customers. "It scans codebases for security vulnerabilities and suggests targeted software patches for human review, allowing teams to find and fix security issues that traditional methods often miss.

🌌 Samsung is adding Perplexity to Galaxy AI

Samsung is integrating Perplexity into its Galaxy AI ecosystem, allowing Galaxy S26 users to summon the AI search engine by saying "hey, Plex." The move is part of Samsung's broader push toward a "multi-agent ecosystem" that lets users choose which AI assistants power their phone.

⚡️AI startup’s custom chip gives AI a 10x speed boost

AI chip startup Taalas just emerged with HC1, a custom chip built to run a single AI model and nothing else — delivering responses roughly 100x faster than today's standard hardware and 10x the SOTA for extreme speed in outputs. Taalas’ first chip permanently embeds Meta's Llama 3.1 8B model into the hardware rather than running it as software on general-purpose chips.

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AI Tutorial

How to create Instagram product shots with Nano Banana

Source: gizakdag

1. Go to Gemini and sign in

2. Select Tools > ‘Create 🍌‘ > enable Pro mode

3. Upload an inspiration image, product image, and enter your prompt

Sample Prompt: Create a 9-image Instagram feed for this product in the same aesthetic. Use different locations, angles, and compositions, incorporating people, animals, nature, and various environments while maintaining a cohesive visual style.

4. Once ready, download your favorite image and post them directly to Instagram, TikTok, or your brand’s storefront

🔥AI Tools to supercharge your productivity

1. Crowdstake - Get instant website feedback from 1,000 AI customers — actionable, free, and fast.

2. Alice - A native app that offers fast and reliable experience with models (OpenAI, Perplexity, Claude and more)

3. Linktopia - Community link-building for bloggers, entrepreneurs and startup brands to grow  

4. VerifactAI is an AI fact-checking tool that allows you to fact-check your articles within a minute.

5. Undress AI Tool is a website that offers a deepnude application, allowing users to create modified images

6. Auto Streamer, your digital alchemist turning ideas into engaging learning experiences

    

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⚡️Quick AI News Roundup

⚖️ Lawyer says Google shut down his Gmail, Voice and Photos after NotebookLM upload.

🔬 AI reveals unexpected new physics in the fourth state of matter.

🎮 Microsoft’s new gaming CEO vows not to flood the ecosystem with ‘endless AI slop’.

🚔 Met police using AI tools supplied by Palantir to flag officer misconduct.

⛪ Pope Leo XIV has urged priests to not to use artificial intelligence to write their homilies or to seek “likes” on social media platforms like TikTok.

⚠️ Google VP warns that two types of AI startups may not survive.

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