As South Africa’s Class of 2025 moves into the final stretch of its National Senior Certificate (NSC) exams, educators and students are reaching for a new set of study tools: generative artificial intelligence. Local reporting from The Citizen quotes Centennial Schools’ director of academics...
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By 2025 the conversation in New Zealand finance teams has shifted: AI is no longer a distant possibility or a one‑off experiment — it’s a stack of practical tools that can shave months off close cycles, automate invoice flows, and turn spreadsheets into conversation‑ready narratives, and a...
Samsung used IFA in Berlin to make the living room more than a screen — it announced Vision AI Companion, a unified, multimodal AI layer for its 2024–2025 TVs and smart monitors that folds advanced on‑device vision and audio features together with cloud‑backed generative agents such as Microsoft...
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Samsung’s Vision AI Companion arrived at IFA 2025 as a deliberate pivot: a unified, multi‑agent AI hub for smart displays that folds on‑device vision features and third‑party conversational agents into a single, remote‑invoked experience designed for the living room and home office alike. The...
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Samsung’s IFA push makes a decisive bet on pluralistic AI: the company is rolling its new Vision AI Companion onto eligible Smart TVs and monitors while opening the platform to multiple third‑party agents — Google’s Gemini, Microsoft’s Copilot, and Perplexity — and positioning those agents as...
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Samsung’s Vision AI Companion converts the television from a passive entertainment appliance into an active, conversational hub that can identify what’s on screen, translate dialogue in real time, tune picture and sound, and surface cloud‑backed generative answers and third‑party agents — all...
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Samsung’s IFA announcement in Berlin marks a decisive step toward an “open agent” vision for consumer AI: the company is bringing multiple third‑party AI agents — Google’s Gemini, Microsoft’s Copilot, and Perplexity — onto its displays and broader device family through its new Vision AI...
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When a single AI service becomes central to millions of workflows, a short outage stops more than casual conversation — it exposes systemic fragility and forces users to choose alternatives they may previously have ignored. Recent market shifts and intermittent service interruptions have pushed...
The free-AI chat landscape in 2025 looks like a crowded toolbox: established giants, specialist niche services, open-source experiments, and aggregator front-ends all compete to deliver the best free AI chat experience for work, study, creativity, or companionship. A widely circulated roundup—an...
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Jagran Josh’s roundup that purports to name “the most-used AI chatbots in 2025” landed in inboxes and social feeds with a punchy list—ChatGPT at the top with a jaw‑dropping 46.59 billion “users,” followed by a clutch of U.S. and China‑based rivals—but a closer look shows the headline numbers...
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Perplexity’s latest play changes the calculus of how AI services can — and might — compensate the news ecosystem: the company’s Comet Plus subscription promises to funnel a substantial share of revenue back to publishers whose work is surfaced by its AI assistant and browser, while also arriving...
Android phones quietly run a constellation of AI services every day — from autocomplete and face unlock to route planning — and in 2025 a small set of free Android apps now make that intelligence easily accessible to anyone with a smartphone. This feature distills a TechCabal roundup into a...
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Chatbots have moved from novelty to utility, and in 2025 a crowded field of capable, often free, AI assistants stands ready to handle everything from drafting emails and analyzing spreadsheets to generating images and supporting mental well‑being. The most practical choices depend on what you...
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Microsoft’s behavior toward rival browsers has become a steady drumbeat in tech headlines: from rewriting how Windows 11 handles defaults to quietly routing certain system links into Microsoft Edge, the company has repeatedly taken steps that critics call anti-competitive and that many users...
OpenAI’s GPT-5 is live—and Microsoft has switched on the new model across its Copilot stack, from Microsoft 365 Copilot and the consumer Copilot to GitHub Copilot and Azure AI Foundry, with Perplexity also lighting it up for its Max and Pro tiers (including the Comet AI browser). (openai.com...
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The release of Perplexity’s new Tasks feature marks another significant step in the rapidly evolving arena of AI-powered productivity tools. Just as artificial intelligence applications edge closer to becoming indispensable in the workplace, Perplexity’s offering signals both a maturation of its...
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The challenge of choosing the right AI assistant is becoming increasingly vital as more products surge into the mainstream, touting productivity gains and intelligent support. It is no longer enough to simply trust brand names or flashy marketing—it takes hands-on trials and scrutiny to uncover...
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Motorola has taken off its usual conservative garb, swapped it for digital sequins, and crashed the AI party. Moto AI, previously that shy beta at the back of the software dance floor, just strutted out with new features and a few heavy-hitting friends: Google, Microsoft, Meta, and Perplexity...
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The world of Windows applications just got another intriguing twist. Perplexity – best known for pushing the boundaries on advanced AI tools – has taken a giant leap by introducing its native Windows application. This new offering, which is reportedly free, brings advanced functionalities...
In a bold stride toward enhancing digital financial services, Indian mobile payments giant Paytm has joined forces with AI-powered search platform Perplexity. This strategic partnership introduces an innovative search experience directly into the Paytm app—a move aimed at providing users with...