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OpenAI is best known for its AI tools like ChatGPT, but it looks like the company may be aiming for something much bigger. According to recent reports, OpenAI could be exploring the idea of building its own smartphone — though it's still very early days, and we likely won't see anything concrete for a few more years.

Carl Pei is once again pushing a big idea about where smartphones are headed, and this time it is a direct challenge to the app-based model people have used for years. Speaking at SXSW in Austin, the Nothing CEO said he believes apps will eventually fade away, replaced by AI agents that understand what users want and handle tasks for them in a much more direct way. In his view, the current smartphone experience still looks too much like the old PDA era: lock screen, home screen, app icons, app store, and a long chain of taps just to get simple things done.

If you've ever tried to open a 10-year-old DVD, a forgotten USB stick, or an old external hard drive and discovered it's basically a fancy paperweight now, you already understand the problem Microsoft is chasing: long-term storage is fragile.

What if your handheld gaming PC could push twice—even three times—the frames while you're on battery? That's the promise behind a new, experimental approach: teaming the device's built-in graphics (iGPU) with a battery-powered external GPU (eGPU) to share the workload. Think big titles like Cyberpunk 2077 or Spider-Man 2 on a portable, boosted not by one GPU, but two working in tandem.

It's not every day that a relatively unknown player from China crashes the party hosted by tech titans like OpenAI, Google, and Anthropic—but that's exactly what DeepSeek has done. Since late 2022, we've seen a few AI assistants dominate the scene—ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini—you know the names. These tools keep getting smarter, thanks to massive cash injections (think billions), fancy data centers, and cutting-edge chips.