OpenAI building an iPhone competitor

9to5Mac

OpenAI is developing an AI-focused smartphone with partners MediaTek, Qualcomm, and Luxshare, targeting a 2028 launch. This represents a major strategic pivot as the company previously denied plans to build a phone, betting instead that AI agents can differentiate it from the iPhone.

The New York Times

The White House is preparing an executive order mandating pre-release vetting of frontier AI models, signaling a major shift toward proactive government regulation of advanced AI systems before deployment.

The Verge

Google discontinued Project Mariner, its experimental AI web browsing agent, migrating its technology into Gemini Agent and AI Mode search features. The move consolidates Google's agentic AI capabilities ahead of the company's I/O conference on May 19th.

The Verge

Apple's camera-equipped AirPods are nearing production to enable visual AI queries through Siri, representing a major expansion of AI-integrated wearables and intensifying competition with Meta and OpenAI in the spatial computing market.

Meta

Meta is deploying advanced AI to detect underage users through visual and textual analysis, automatically enrolling suspected teens in protective accounts across expanded geographies, while pushing for app-store-level age verification legislation.