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Samsung is already preparing its next major software update, One UI 9, based on Android 17. Google seeded the first Android 17 beta on February 13, 2026, and early One UI 9 test builds reportedly appeared soon after on Samsung’s internal servers. The company is still preparing One UI 8.5 for wider public release, but work on the Android 17-based upgrade appears to be moving quickly. For Galaxy users, the main question is simple: which phones and tablets are likely to receive One UI 9? Samsung has not announced an official One UI 9 rollout schedule or eligibility list yet. However, the company’s current software update policy, early test builds and previous rollout patterns give a fairly clear idea of which Galaxy devices are likely to make the cut. When could One UI 9 launch? Samsung is expected to open the first One UI 9 public beta for its latest flagship phones. The Galaxy S26 series is likely to be first in line, followed by the Galaxy S25 and Galaxy S24 lineups. A beta release cou...

Samsung has said it never formally announced April 30 as the rollout date for One UI 8.5, after widespread rumors led users to expect the stable update to arrive that day. The clarification came from a moderator on Samsung’s US community forum. The moderator said the April 30 timeline was based on community speculation and past rollout patterns, not an official announcement from the company. Samsung said the One UI 8.5 rollout is still being finalized and no release date has been confirmed. The company said it prioritizes testing results before committing to an update schedule, with final approval resting with its lab engineers. The extended beta testing period has made the software nearly stable, according to the company, but Samsung said engineers must complete their evaluations before clearing the update for public release. Regional factors also appear to have influenced the rollout. South Korea observed Labor Day on May 1, and a rollout on April 30 could have left Samsung with limi...

Gemini enabled direct file creation within its chat interface, allowing users to generate multiple file formats through a prompt without switching applications or manually reformatting content. The capability supported Google Workspace files, including Docs, Sheets and Slides, and Microsoft formats such as Excel spreadsheets and Word documents. It also included PDFs, CSV files, LaTeX documents, plain text, rich text format and Markdown files. The workflow aimed to streamline the creative process by allowing users to start with an idea or brainstorm session in Gemini and convert it into a finished file without leaving the platform. It stated that a budget proposal became an organised Excel spreadsheet, loose notes became a structured bulleted document, and complex collaboration summaries condensed into a single-page PDF. It said the time saved by removing copy-paste cycles and manual formatting translated into increased productivity. For Google Workspace users, Gemini integrated within ...

Samsung’s One UI platform is facing a wave of criticism that goes beyond the usual complaints accompanying a major software rollout. Across Samsung Community forums, users are increasingly questioning not just individual bugs, but the company’s broader approach to fixing them. A recurring claim dominates recent discussions: issues identified in one One UI version are not resolved within that release cycle, but instead pushed to the next numbered update. According to multiple forum threads, bugs found in One UI 7.0 were deferred to One UI 8.0, while problems now affecting One UI 8.5 are reportedly scheduled for fixes only in One UI 9.0. This perceived “next‑version delay” has become a focal point of user frustration. The concern is not that bugs exist — users accept that no major software is flawless — but that known issues appear to be systematically postponed rather than addressed through interim fixes. Examples frequently cited include persistent blur artifacts in the Gallery app, in...

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 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...