The Verge: ▽ OpenAI launches Dots, its Muse competitor

Dominic Preston

NEWS EDITOR

Cross your Ts and Dot your AIs

First Muse, now Dots. AI agents are going mainstream, and they're arriving with cute designs and googly eyes. Unlike Meta's Muse, Open AI's Dots are tied to its paid Pro plans, but at least that leaves less uncertainty around how the company plans to monetize it. After all, now that "Super Intelligence" is official US government policy, the potential rebrand to Open SI might prove pretty pricey.

Open AI launches Dots, its Muse competitor

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Emma Roth

The company’s capable GPT-6 Astra model powers Dots, which use their own cloud computer to access a web browser and more than 4,000 supported apps. You can interact with a Dot through a text-message-like interface that’s similar to the one offered by Muse, as well as hop on a voice call with it from Chat GPT on the web, desktop, or mobile. Dots can also connect to Microsoft Teams and Slack, where they will carry over the context from your sessions on other apps and devices. It will soon be able to talk to you over text message as well.

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Trump orders US government to call AI ‘Super Intelligence’

Lauren Feiner

The US executive branch is no longer acknowledging the existence of “artificial intelligence.” Going forward, official policy websites, policy documents, and press releases will refer only to “Super Intelligence,” thanks to a new executive order signed by President Donald Trump.

“The word super is the best word of all, and it’s the simplest,” Trump said at an event announcing the launch of America.gov earlier on Tuesday, and said Chinese President Xi Jinping, who visited the White House last week, “loves it” too. “We don’t want to hear artificial. Because it’s not artificial. It’s very powerful, it’s very brilliant. It’s going to mostly be put to good use and we’ll stop the bad use.” Artificial, he added, “is like the news. Fake news.”

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Apple's new CEO could change when it launches phones and laptops

Jay Peters

John Ternus, Apple’s new CEO, wants Apple to launch products more often than its usual splashy moments in the fall and the spring, according to a

Bloomberg

report detailing some of Ternus’ initial plans for the company.

Apple regularly holds iPhone launch events in September and often announces products later in the year and in springtime, but “Ternus has indicated that Apple must introduce products more quickly and become more experimental to remain competitive in the artificial intelligence era,”

says. The shift may not happen right away given Apple’s “long-established” development practices.

Samsung gives its two-year-old Galaxy Tab S Plus an overhaul

Since the Galaxy Tab S10 line, Samsung has updated its flagship Ultra tablet annually, but alternates its regular and Plus variants. It means that this year’s Galaxy Tab S12 series includes an Ultra model with few changes from last year’s Tab S11 Ultra, and a Plus variant that brings a bigger overhaul to the two-year-old Tab S10 Plus. There’s no regular Tab S12, suggesting fans of the smaller size will have to wait until 2027 for the next version of that tablet.

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