Samsung looks like it’s about to borrow a page from Google—and even Apple—by rolling out AI-powered notification summaries on Galaxy phones.
According to firmware leaks spotted by SamMobile, Samsung’s upcoming One UI 8.5 update will include a feature that can condense long chats into quick recaps. A pop-up in the leaked build showed the message:
“Your longer conversations can now be summarized to give you quick recaps.”
The example popped up with a WhatsApp notification, hinting that this tool is focused on messaging apps.
How it works
The settings page shows you’ll be able to turn the feature on or off, exclude specific apps if you’d rather not have their notifications summarized, and that the summaries are powered by Google’s AI models—not something homegrown from Samsung.
If this sounds familiar, it should. Google’s been building a similar notification summary feature into Android 16 for Pixel phones, though it hasn’t actually gone live yet. Samsung seems poised to be the first to ship it, debuting in One UI 8.5.
Lessons from Apple’s misstep
Apple already tried something like this with its “Apple Intelligence” rollout. The results? Mixed at best. Summaries were sometimes so inaccurate that Apple ended up disabling the feature for certain apps. Samsung and Google appear to be hedging against that by keeping the feature strictly limited to messaging apps, rather than every notification under the sun.
That doesn’t mean there won’t be hiccups—anyone who’s used Apple’s version has a story about a hilariously wrong summary—but the narrower scope could help avoid the worst-case scenarios.
When to expect it
One UI 8.5 is expected to launch alongside the Galaxy S26 early next year. If the leaks hold true, Galaxy owners may soon get their first taste of AI-generated notification summaries—hopefully with fewer headaches than Apple’s first attempt.
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By: Grant Kennedy
TechNewsCITY Silicon Valley
Alibaba has entered the competitive AI chip sector with a new homegrown processor, creating significant buzz in the industry. This development has already impacted the market, causing NVIDIA's stock to drop over 3%, while Alibaba’s shares surged by 12%.
The Facts Behind the Chip
Recent reports indicate that Alibaba is testing a new AI chip specifically designed for AI inference.
Unlike Alibaba's earlier chips, which were produced by Taiwan's TSMC, this new processor is being manufactured domestically by a Chinese company. This shift highlights a commitment to local production. The chip is expected to be more versatile than previous models, capable of handling a wider range of AI tasks.
The Timing: A Strategic Move
Alibaba's decision to develop this chip is not just a casual venture; it is a strategic response to geopolitical tensions and trade restrictions that have made it challenging for Chinese companies to access NVIDIA's advanced technology.
With U.S. restrictions limiting access to NVIDIA's high-end chips, Alibaba is taking the initiative to develop its own solutions. The company has committed to investing at least 380 billion Chinese yuan (approximately $53.1 billion) in AI development over the next three years, signaling its serious intent.
Strategic Focus: Internal Use
Rather than selling the chip commercially, Alibaba plans to use it exclusively for its cloud services, allowing customers to rent computing power rather than purchase hardware. This approach leverages Alibaba's existing cloud infrastructure, which has already demonstrated impressive growth, with a 26% year-over-year increase and consistent triple-digit growth in AI-related product revenue.
Technical Details: What We Still Don’t Know
While the announcement is exciting, specific performance details remain unclear. Questions about how this chip compares to NVIDIA's offerings—such as speed and efficiency—are still unanswered. Additionally, the timeline for its market readiness is uncertain, as Alibaba has a history of taking time to launch new products.
The Bigger Picture: A Shift in Tech Independence
This development reflects a broader trend of Chinese tech companies striving for independence from American technology. Alibaba's chip initiative is part of a larger strategy to create a self-sufficient technological ecosystem. While financial investment is crucial, building competitive semiconductors also requires advanced technical expertise and long-term partnerships.
Looking Ahead
In the short term, Alibaba may remain cautious about releasing performance metrics until they are confident in the chip's capabilities. If the chip performs well, Alibaba could expand its internal use and potentially license the technology to other Chinese companies. In the long term, this could either mark a significant advancement for China's semiconductor industry or serve as a costly learning experience.
The Nvidia Wildcard
There's one chip we know even less about than Alibaba's - and that's Nvidia's next chip, code named 'Rubin' we talked about here. At least according to rumors, it may double the performance of their newest, publicly available chips. Considering it's unlikely Alibaba has been able to match Nivdia's current performance, doubling that would leave any competitor in the dust.
In any other circumstance this would sound far-fetched, but when it comes to GPU's Nvidia has such a head start and is credited with inventing a large portion of how these chips function, when it comes to development their advantage can't be dismissed.
Conclusion
Regardless of the outcome, Alibaba's new chip signifies a determined effort by Chinese tech firms to shape their own technological future. As the AI chip competition continues, the stakes are high, with significant implications for both domestic and global markets. The world will be watching closely to see how this unfolds. What are your thoughts? Will Alibaba's efforts succeed, or is NVIDIA's position too strong to challenge? Only time will tell.
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Author: Ross Davis
Silicon Valley Newsroom | Tech News CITY
AI music platform Suno has been steadily redefining how artists create. Now, the company has dropped a teaser for something called Suno Studio—and if what they’re hinting at is even half true, it could be the biggest leap forward in AI-assisted production since the DAW went digital.
A Blank Canvas That Moves With You
From Suno’s own words, Suno Studio isn’t just another music app—it’s "an audio workstation that reflects your imagination." The pitch is clear: whether you start with a blank project, a single vocal line, a rough voice memo, or even a fully produced track, the platform will adapt to your workflow.
This isn’t about pre-made loops or generic AI backing tracks—it’s about stem-by-stem creation. Suno says you’ll be able to build songs one element at a time—drums, bass, synths, vocals—each generated or imported as its own stem. This means you can replace individual parts, rework arrangements, or strip everything down to one sound and rebuild from there.
Stem Control, MIDI Freedom
One confirmed feature that’s a big deal for producers: MIDI export. That means you’re not locked into the audio you get out of Suno Studio—you can take those AI-generated parts and tweak them in your favorite DAW, change instruments, adjust performance nuances, or re-sequence entirely.
This could turn Suno Studio into a powerful idea generator: sketch the bones of a song in minutes, then finish it in Ableton, Logic, FL Studio, or Pro Tools without compromise.
The AI DAW Dream
Right now, music AI tools often sit outside the main production process. You might generate a melody in one app, beats in another, then manually drag files into your DAW. Suno Studio is hinting at something different—an all-in-one creative space where AI, human input, and traditional production tools coexist seamlessly.
If Suno makes good on their promise, you could:
Hum a melody into your mic and get multiple arrangement ideas instantly.
Build a song in layers, swapping in AI-generated stems on the fly.
Blend your own recorded instruments with AI parts that adapt to your style.
Export MIDI to take your work even further in another DAW.
“Unlock What’s Already Inside”
Suno’s marketing line, "Unlock what’s already inside," suggests a heavy emphasis on personalization. The AI could learn your preferences—favorite chord progressions, rhythmic feels, sound palettes—and then generate ideas that feel like they came straight from your own creative brain.
If that’s the case, Suno Studio might evolve into a kind of creative partner rather than just a tool—one that not only keeps pace with your ideas but anticipates them.
Built for Everyone From Bedroom Producers to Studio Pros
While the teaser positions Suno Studio as an intuitive space for “musicians, producers, and creators of all kinds,” it’s easy to imagine it having two equally passionate audiences:
Newcomers who’ve never touched a DAW but want to create full songs quickly.
Experienced producers who want a rapid prototyping engine for song ideas without losing control over arrangement and sound.
With stem-by-stem flexibility and MIDI export, Suno Studio could bridge those worlds, making it equally useful for casual creativity and professional production.
Why This Could Be Huge
If Suno executes this right, we might be looking at the first truly AI-native DAW—a platform that merges generative intelligence, traditional production tools, and user-driven control into one fluid creative environment.
It’s the difference between AI music as a gimmick and AI music as a serious production workflow.
If Suno’s promise of "pushing your ideas beyond what you imagined" holds up, Suno Studio won’t just change how we make music—it might change who gets to make it.
If you want, I can follow this up with a high-energy, tech-journalism style “launch hype” version so it reads like a breaking news announcement from a music tech blog. That would give it even more punch.
You can join the waitlist on their website.
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Author: Grant Kennedy
Tech News CITY // New York Newsroom
She's shorter than I thought. Compact, restless, mostly unable to sit still throughout this interview, Heather Ferreira enters a Sherman Oaks Thai restaurant wearing fitted black that looks a little like some kind of Silicon Valley customer service rep uniform: a bit “Apple” – solid black polyester, no features, no frills, simple – and orders meekrob then sits with me, continually watching what happens outside our sidewalk side window. She is a talkative, even garrulous, friendly personality who reminds me a bit of Ralph Bakshi. “I know him,” she informs me. “Ralph hired me in 2016 to produce a wonderful animated musical feature for him. It didn't work out because he yelled at me, and I still feel sad about that. He's a visionary despite the yelling. Everything Tarantino is praised for Ralph did first, in 1970, by hand.”
Gesticulatory, bright-eyed (her eyes are almond-shaped and she says it's due to partial Asian heritage), Ferreira is pensive, a little sad and depressed looking on surface, but seething with constant ideas: ideas to create male robot companions for intelligent straight females at her upcoming Tesla-style company Kubrick, ideas for the return of Saturday morning cartoons she’s producing, ideas for how she can make original Sesame Street and her childhood favorite TV show The Electric Company return. A little autistic in aspect and somber, the mixed-race film director has won multiple cinema awards but remains largely unknown because she “hates” social media and publicity and is intensely private.
“I'm a bit Aspergers or something,” she tells me as her meal finally arrives: late. “I don't like attention, I hate crowds, and I don't even like tight-fitting clothing or exposing myself. To become famous in the 2020s you've got to instead really love these things or at least adapt to them. I refuse to because I can't. You're lucky to get this [interview] out of me. I'm doing it because of Atlantis (her current production). I hate being heard and seen. I just want to create. I've been stalked and I keep being stalked both by weird, mentally nuts guys and nuts gay women. So I hide. This may why nobody knows about me.”
Her meal was late and prepared wrong. “I used to be a waitress,” she confessed to me at the end of this interview. She tipped the waiter a $100. Aren't you encouraging him, I ask her? “It wasn't his fault,” she replies, “and he's on his feet all day. This is the least I can do. Give him a break.”
Ferreira directed The Fragrance of Petrichor, the first completed full-length motion picture (at 90 minutes) in November of 2024 using solely AI...
It immediately won the Honorable Mention Award from the 2024 AI International Film Festival, but the world doesn't know because an amateur actor she cast for a single day's work on her 2021 film The Fisherman targeted and stalked her during its premiere, swerving her publicity team's attention from the premiere to instead resolving him.
She achieved a permanent restraining order immediately against the actor (reportedly even the judge, a San Diego County veteran judge, was terrified by the actor’s obsession with Ferreira) but the damage was already done, “And this,” Ferreira assures, “happens like clockwork on every production of mine. I achieve something notable and a mentally ill guy or lesbian appears immediately, posting things online about me that are false, and threatening and stalking me, and the film winds up subsumed because I have to put more intention into my preserving safety into the picture. This pattern goes back to 1997 and I don't know how I attracted it or why. But it ruined (The Fragrance of) Petrichor. Had [the most recent stalker actor] not inflicted what he did and disrupted our publicity as he did, I'd probably be the most famous film director in the world right now,” says Ferreira. “Petrichor was the first completely AI feature length film, but let's talk about Atlantis. That's, I think, where the future will have to be.”
Set in 13,611 B.C., Atlantis: The Motion Picture depicts the infamous sunken island as a teeming, wealthy technological superpower much like America of today but with cooler gadgets, against a slick backdrop of Greek temples, Dorian columns and Roman statues all using electricity. Generated entirely with AI at Ferreira's human directorial command, the film is already attracting strong response becoming similar to the way the 1977 world audience reacted to the first Star Wars. Ferreira thinks it’s no coincidence:
“America and the world have been crying out for a nonpolitical science-fiction fantasy blockbuster with a broad vision, compelling characters, special effects and a good story, and it's my hope and conviction Atlantis will deliver it. It has name recognition, meaning everyone, and every language and culture and race in the world, knows what 'Atlantis' is and recognizes its name instantly, so it's its own brand while simultaneously public domain, which in 2025 is becoming important. I've noticed everybody has an opinion on Atlantis, even people who don't believe it existed. Their disbelief it existed is an opinion: theirs; and they expressed it. Everyone else knows of course the place existed and most cultures refer at least vaguely to it having done so. Everyone knows something caused, about around 13,600 B.C., an epic worldwide flood that changed demographics, technology, religion, pretty much everything. Everyone knows Ancient Egypt suddenly developed or was exposed to technology of a paradigm shift-level sort somehow for some reason. You say to people the word Atlantis and their eyes start to glitter. Even taxi drivers in Mexico reacted fabulously to it. The Mexicans call it Atlante, with an E on the end. The name Aztlan derives from it, so something happened. Mine just happens to be the first ever film that not only says yes it existed, and yes it sank, but here, this is possibly why: and it's all generated by AI with me at the helm, and features all-artificial stars, which is also important.”
Atlantis: The Motion Picture indeed boasts an impressive raft of completely artificial but unsettlingly real seeming stars...
All of which kind of remind you of this or that name star from history but you somehow can’t quite place your finger on, and some fairly startlingly strong special effects. Its story is common and relatable, and you find yourself rooting for exactly the right characters just the right way. Again, as she has implied, it has a distinct and eerie feel of 1977 George Lucas. But it’s also an anachronism feast for the eyes: Atlantis the country has atomic weapons, fighter jets, and smartphones.
The screener so far shows a fairly compelling science-fiction movie: Atlantis is depicted as an intriguing cross of 1950's Cecil B. DeMille Bible pic and futuristic technopolis teeming with lasers, crystal pyramids and torpedos. There are numerous allusions to America in the movie: a leisurely wealthy populace used to good things is suddenly confronted by catastrophe, brought by determined foreign military enemies. The villain is formidable with a strong reason for his actions, one you almost could agree with. But the protagonist, The Emperor of Atlantis, Adelphi I, has arguably equal reasons for defending his nation and is played – if I can call an AI actor’s performance that – by without doubt probably the most photogenic and likeable male star pixels have ever put together. If you can cast politics aside Atlantis has everything in place to be, yes, possibly, the next 1977 Star Wars. But it’s completely AI, which she has made work exceptionally well visually. Will it work the rest of the way, and in Peoria?
Ferreira hoped to complete the film by May 2025 but says “September is probably more feasible. May 25th of 2026 is absolutely if distribution works out. I'm at Warner Bros, so I am under legal obligation to screen it for them first: first look first refusal. But if they pass, 20th Century Fox feels the most natural and logical. We’ll have to see. But,” the director promises, “the real seller here is controversy. Human actors in this film have been replaced entirely by some very competent artificial ones. How will it come across to audiences? I’m more concerned what SAG-AFTRA will do. They’re going to hate both this picture and me. But the hour has come. The technology is here. And there is no more deserving union.”
Atlantis: The Motion Picture is in production in Los Angeles and San Diego and is expected to premiere worldwide by Christmas of 2025 or Summer of 2026. Says the director to me over her very wrong Thai meal, forgivingly, “It all depends upon both luck and distribution.”
Little do people know, ChatGPT has become a go-to tool for answering questions, writing content, and even brainstorming ideas. Anyhow, here are ten creative and unconventional uses of ChatGPT that you probably haven't seen yet.
Ever feel like you simply can't fit it all in one day? Well, ChatGPT will help you organize your time by considering what needs to be done, what you need to prioritize first, and when to take breaks. You will get a personalized plan for increasing your productivity and even suggestions about scheduling, taking into consideration how you generally work and your level of energy.
Example: "Help me to make a daily routine for better productivity. I work 9 to 5 and have 3 hours for personal projects."
Instead of hours and even days in search of workout routines, one may just reach out to ChatGPT for the design of a certain workout based on the goals set-provided by an individual, be it strength training, yoga, or weight loss, even. One could even change the workout to pertain to their equipment and time availability.
Example: "Create a 5-day strength training workout plan for me using only dumbbells."
Stuck on what to buy for someone who has everything? ChatGPT can help you with out-of-the-box gift ideas, carefully personalized and matched for any occasion, taking into consideration hobbies, interests, and even sentimental value.
Example: "What are some original gift ideas for those into photography and travel?"
Stumped about what to say for that speech or toast? Let ChatGPT help you draft speeches for a wedding, through to a birthday, all the way to even a presentation at work. The tone can be set to inspiring, humorous, or formal—whatever fits your needs.
Example: "Write funny and heartfelt wedding toast for my best friend."
Whether it's organizing a party or a corporate event, the themes, activities, and timelines can all easily be outlined in ChatGPT. It could even suggest a menu or seating.
Example: "Help me plan a 90s-themed birthday party for up to 20 guests, including music, food, and activities."
Whether you want to learn a new language, start with woodworking, or do digital art, ChatGPT can break down complex hobbies and skills for you and get you started. It will provide you with resources, starting tips, and practice routines.
Example: "I want to learn digital painting. Kindly outline for me some basic tools I need, accompanied by some beginner exercises."
Whether you are on a diet or just trying to eat healthier, ChatGPT can propose a personalized meal plan that will meet your nutrition goals. Be it vegan, keto, or balanced, it will offer creative ideas for breakfast, lunch, and dinner.
Example: "Create a 7-day vegan meal plan, with a focus on high-protein recipes."
From writing a cover letter for a job application to drafting formal legal letters, ChatGPT can help you with professional writing tasks. It can offer a structure that fits your specific situation and make sure the tone and language are appropriate.
Example: "Write a letter demanding a refund for a product that did not meet expectations."
If you're preparing for a job interview, ChatGPT can engage you in some mock interviewing based on your desired job. You can even ask it for advice on how to best improve your responses or how to answer trick questions.
Example: "You're a marketing position hiring manager. Ask me questions in an interview."
Whether you're a writer, ChatGPT is a great companion to help you with your brainstorming, showing how it could be used in eliciting character outlines and plot twists or even dialogue. This is excellent for beating writer's block or opening up new ideas completely.
Example: “Help me create a backstory for a rebellious character in a sci-fi novel.”
These are just some of the many ways, often unexpected, you might leverage ChatGPT to make your life a little easier, more productive, or even a bit more creative. Be it event planning, upgrading a routine, or trying out any new hobby, this AI tool is full of infinite possibilities. Don't be afraid to try things out—you may find a new method to level up your daily tasks in ways you never thought possible!
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Author: Grant Kennedy
Tech News CITY // New York Newsroom
