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Microsoft and OpenAI revise partnership for flexible cloud access and non exclusive licensing

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Microsoft and OpenAI announced an amended partnership agreement to provide long-term clarity and flexibility as both companies continued advancing artificial intelligence technology. The updated terms represented a significant restructuring of how the two organisations operated together while maintaining their core collaboration. Under the amended agreement, Microsoft remained OpenAI's primary cloud partner, with OpenAI products shipping first on Azure. However, a critical change allowed OpenAI to serve all its products to customers across any cloud provider. This shift represented a meaningful expansion of OpenAI's operational independence while preserving Microsoft's privileged position as the initial deployment partner, unless Microsoft could not or chose not to support necessary capabilities. The intellectual property framework was restructured to provide both companies with greater certainty. Microsoft continued holding a licence to OpenAI's intellectual property f...

Openai partners with aws to bring open weight models and codex to amazon bedrock

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OpenAI expanded its reach into Amazon’s cloud infrastructure through a partnership that integrated its latest models and coding capabilities into Amazon Bedrock, bringing together OpenAI’s artificial intelligence models with AWS’s enterprise-grade infrastructure to offer developers a unified platform for building generative AI applications. The integration centred on OpenAI’s open-weight models, specifically the gpt-oss-20b and gpt-oss-120b variants. The smaller model served use cases requiring lower latency and specialised applications, while the larger model targeted production environments and complex reasoning tasks. Both models featured a context window of 128,000 tokens, enabling developers to work with substantial amounts of information in a single interaction. The models supported text input and output modalities and could be invoked through multiple operations, including standard model invocation and batch inference capabilities. The Codex coding agent formed a key component o...

OpenAI reportedly working on smartphone built around AI agents

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OpenAI was reportedly developing a smartphone built around artificial intelligence agents, marking a significant shift in how the technology company viewed hardware’s role in advancing AI capabilities, according to analyst Ming-Chi Kuo. The proposed smartphone would replace conventional apps with AI agents capable of understanding user intent and executing tasks autonomously. Instead of navigating between multiple applications, users would interact with a unified AI system that comprehended context and completed actions in real time, including booking flights, compiling market data, managing communications, and handling other requests without requiring users to switch between different applications. OpenAI’s approach involved vertical integration, with the company controlling both the operating system and hardware architecture. This strategy mirrored Apple’s business model and would allow OpenAI’s AI systems deeper access to device-level features than currently possible through app-bas...

Samsung’s new wide foldable is getting the same camera upgrade as Galaxy Z Fold 8

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New Delhi: Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 8 Wide is rumoured to get the same smaller cover-screen selfie camera cutout as the standard Fold 8, shrinking from 3.7mm to just 2.5mm. That should make the outer display look cleaner and more immersive. Last week, it was reported that the Galaxy Z Fold 8 is getting a smaller selfie camera hole. Well, the Galaxy Z Fold 8 Wide could get the same upgrade, it would seem. This information comes from the same source that shared the Galaxy Z Fold 8 details, Ice Universe. He said, via Weibo, that the so-called Galaxy Z Fold 8 Wide will join the Galaxy Z Fold 8 when it comes to shrinking its “front view camera”. As in the earlier report, this appears to refer to the camera hole on the cover display. It is not clear whether the same change will apply to the main display. The camera hole on the front is expected to shrink from 3.7mm to 2.5mm in diameter, a difference that should be easily noticeable. The Galaxy Z Fold 7 has a 3.7mm diameter camera cutout. The d...

Samsung galaxy S25 S24 and S23 get final push ahead of one ui 8.5 rollout

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Samsung shifted its focus to stable builds for One UI 8.5 over the past few days as the software appeared to enter the final phase for a stable rollout, with the Beta Program underway and the last update expected next week. Samsung opened the One UI 8.5 Beta Program for the Galaxy S25 series in December. The beta activity arrived in six countries, while users in other markets remained on One UI 8.0, based on the Android 16 operating system. Samsung rolled out nine beta updates to the Galaxy S25 series during the Beta Program. The last, 10th beta update could be pushed on April 20. The final rollout of the One UI 8.5 firmware was said to kickstart on April 30 in South Korea. This week, Samsung uploaded new stable builds to its server for Galaxy S series smartphones. The Galaxy S22 series had yet to grab any attention in terms of a major software update. The latest stable builds listed were: Galaxy S23 series – FZD7 Galaxy S24 series – DZD9 Galaxy S25 series – CZDB Galaxy S23 FE – GZD7 G...

Anthropic launches Claude Design, a new product for creating quick visuals

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A nthropic announced on Friday that it’s launching Claude Design, a new experimental product that lets users create visuals like prototypes, slides, one-pagers, and more using Claude. The company says Claude Design is intended to help people like founders and product managers without a design background share their ideas more easily. With Claude Design, users describe what they want, and Claude will create an initial version. From there, users can refine the visuals with direct edits or requests. For example, you could ask Claude to “prototype a serene mobile meditation app. It should have calming typography, subtle nature-inspired colors, and a clean layout.” You could then tweak the colors, the size of the typography, or ask Claude to add a dark mode toggle. While Claude Design may initially seem like it’s looking to compete with popular design app Canva, which has just expanded its own AI capabilities, Anthropic said that it’s intended to complement it rather than replace it. The co...

OpenAI rolls out major Codex update with automation, plugins and computer use

O penAI has rolled out a major set of updates to Codex, positioning it as a tool for “almost everything” in modern software and creative workflows. These updates, now rolling out on the Codex desktop app, significantly expand what Codex can see, connect to, and act on—bringing it closer to a true AI work companion rather than a narrow coding assistant. One of the most notable changes is deeper tool integration. Codex now supports more than 90 plugins, allowing it to gather context and take action across the tools many teams already rely on. This includes documentation platforms, project management systems, code review tools, creative software, and deployment pipelines. Instead of switching contexts, users can increasingly orchestrate work directly through Codex, reducing friction across complex workflows. Automations can now run in the same thread, so Codex can pick up where it left off, with the original context intact. It can schedule future work and wake up automatically to continue...