AI 15 October 2025 - 28 November 2025

Littelfuse Shares Rise as AI Data-Center Story Hits

Littelfuse Shares Rise as AI Data-Center Story Hits

Littelfuse Inc. shares jumped Tuesday, closing at a new 52-week high as the AI data-center product debut landed. The stock, which trades on the Nasdaq, finished at around $487.90, up 5.3%. It hit $489.60 during the day. Investors have pushed the shares higher since its first-quarter earnings. Littelfuse is making its pitch now as it wants to prove its circuit-protection products belong in new higher-power data center projects, not just in industrial or automotive use. Regular U.S. trading opens later Wednesday; Nasdaq’s standard hours run 9:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. ET, with pre-market trading from 4 a.m. ET.
June 3, 2026
Google’s Aluminium OS Explained: Android PCs, AI at the Core, and What’s New Today (November 28, 2025)

Google’s Aluminium OS Explained: Android PCs, AI at the Core, and What’s New Today (November 28, 2025)

Google’s long‑running plan to bring Android properly to laptops and desktop PCs now has a name – or at least a very strong codename: Aluminium OS. Over the past few days, job listings, code references, and a wave of coverage from Android Authority, 9to5Google, The Verge, Tom’s Guide, TechRadar and others have outlined what this new platform could look like. TechRadar+4Android Authority+49to5Google+4 Today, November 28, 2025, we’re also seeing the first real user sentiment data on whether people actually want Google to replace ChromeOS with this Android‑based desktop OS – and the answer, at least among enthusiasts, is surprisingly clear. FindArticles+1
November 28, 2025
Nvidia vs Google: AI Chip War Escalates as Meta Eyes Google TPUs and Nvidia Claims It’s “a Generation Ahead” – 26 November 2025

Nvidia vs Google: AI Chip War Escalates as Meta Eyes Google TPUs and Nvidia Claims It’s “a Generation Ahead” – 26 November 2025

The world’s most valuable chipmaker is suddenly looking mortal. On 26 November 2025, investors, analysts and Big Tech rivals are all re‑pricing what had looked like Nvidia’s unshakeable dominance in AI hardware. A flurry of reports that Meta Platforms is negotiating a multibillion‑dollar deal to use Google’s custom AI chips — and Nvidia’s sharp response that its GPUs remain “a generation ahead” — have turned the Nvidia‑Google rivalry into the defining tech story of the day. www.israelhayom.com+3Reuters+3Business Insider+3
November 26, 2025
Google Gemini Leak Reveals Direct NotebookLM Import, Connected App Shortcut, and Two‑Way Sync

Google Gemini Leak Reveals Direct NotebookLM Import, Connected App Shortcut, and Two‑Way Sync

24 November 2025 — A wave of fresh leaks suggests Google is about to make Gemini and NotebookLM feel like a single, tightly integrated AI workspace rather than two separate tools. Multiple reports published on November 24 point to a new interoperability layer between Google Gemini, the company’s flagship AI assistant, and NotebookLM, its AI-powered research and note‑taking environment.
November 24, 2025
Google Gemini Rolls Out to Android Auto: The Biggest In‑Car AI Upgrade Yet – and Polestar EVs Are Next

Google Gemini Rolls Out to Android Auto: The Biggest In‑Car AI Upgrade Yet – and Polestar EVs Are Next

Android Auto just received what many reviewers are calling its most important update to date: Google has begun rolling out its Gemini AI assistant directly into the car, replacing Google Assistant and turning the dashboard into a far more conversational, context‑aware co‑pilot. At the same time, Polestar has confirmed it will bring Gemini to all of its electric models from 2026, signalling that generative AI is about to become a standard feature in next‑generation vehicles. The EV Report+1
November 21, 2025
Google Nano Banana Pro Explained: Gemini 3’s 4K AI Image Generator, Pricing, Safety & How to Use It (Nov 21, 2025)

Google Nano Banana Pro Explained: Gemini 3’s 4K AI Image Generator, Pricing, Safety & How to Use It (Nov 21, 2025)

Google’s new Nano Banana Pro model is rolling out across Gemini, Search, Ads and Workspace — and early tests show both mind‑blowing creativity and serious moderation gaps. Nano Banana Pro is Google DeepMind’s new flagship AI image generation and editing model, officially labeled Gemini 3 Pro Image. It’s the successor to the original Nano Banana that went viral in late summer 2025 for its toy‑like 3D figurine selfies and creative photo edits.Wikipedia
November 21, 2025
iPhone Air Designer Abidur Chowdhury Quits Apple for AI Startup: What His Exit Means for Cupertino’s Future

iPhone Air Designer Abidur Chowdhury Quits Apple for AI Startup: What His Exit Means for Cupertino’s Future

Apple’s carefully curated industrial design team has lost one of its most visible new stars. Abidur Chowdhury – the London‑born designer who helped shape the iPhone Air and appeared prominently in its launch video this September – has left Apple to join an artificial intelligence startup, according to multiple reports published on November 17–18, 2025. MacRumors+3Bloomberg+3The Economic Times+3 His departure comes just months after the debut of the ultra‑thin iPhone Air and deepens concerns about an ongoing exodus of top talent from Apple’s hardware and interface design teams, already in flux since Jony Ive’s exit in 2019. The Economic Times+2India Today+2
November 18, 2025
AI Boom Sparks Global Memory Chip Crisis: Samsung Hikes Prices Up to 60% and Smartphones Face a 2026 Price Shock

AI Boom Sparks Global Memory Chip Crisis: Samsung Hikes Prices Up to 60% and Smartphones Face a 2026 Price Shock

The AI race that’s powering chatbots, image generators, and massive data centers is about to hit you in the wallet. A wave of reports over the last few days – capped by new analysis published today – paints a clear picture: a global memory chip crunch is here, and it’s set to make smartphones, PCs, and SSDs noticeably more expensive through 2026. Digital Trends+2TrendForce+2 From Samsung quietly raising memory prices by as much as 60%, to smartphone brands freezing RAM orders, to PC makers panic‑buying modules for 2026, every part of the supply chain is feeling the squeeze. Reuters+2Tom's Hardware+2
November 17, 2025
Google’s November 2025 Pixel Feature Drop: AI Notification Summaries, Maps Power Saving, ‘Remix’ in Messages, Scam Alerts & More (Nov 12, 2025)

Google’s November 2025 Pixel Feature Drop: AI Notification Summaries, Maps Power Saving, ‘Remix’ in Messages, Scam Alerts & More (Nov 12, 2025)

Google is rolling out its latest Pixel Feature Drop with smarter notifications, new AI tools in Messages and Photos, and a battery‑saving Maps mode—starting this week and continuing through December. blog.google Pixel now generates concise summaries of longer conversations across chat apps so you can catch up at a glance without opening the thread. A follow‑on Notification Organizer in December will auto‑group and silence lower‑priority categories like News or Promotions. Availability: Pixel 9 and newer, excluding 9a; English‑only at launch. blog.google+1
November 12, 2025
Nokia demos AI‑powered 6G receiver at Brooklyn 6G Summit, promising 10–25% uplink gains and reuse of existing 5G sites

Nokia demos AI‑powered 6G receiver at Brooklyn 6G Summit, promising 10–25% uplink gains and reuse of existing 5G sites

On the final day of the Brooklyn 6G Summit—co‑hosted by Nokia and NYU WIRELESS—Nokia highlighted HybridDeepRx, an AI‑enabled receiver designed to improve 6G coverage without a wholesale rebuild of cell sites. According to Nokia Bell Labs researcher Dani Korpi, the lab radio under test spans roughly 7–30 GHz, and pairs with an AI receiver to tolerate higher, distortion‑prone transmit powers—translating into a few extra dB of link budget. Nokia Corporation | Nokia+1 Nokia says the approach can boost uplink distance by 10–25% under realistic test conditions, a gain validated with Rohde & Schwarz gear. Those improvements, if carried into products, could allow 6G to ride on existing 5G sites, cutting coverage‑driven capex. Telecom Review Asia
November 7, 2025
OpenAI’s Sora: Viral AI Video App Arrives on Android Amid Excitement and Controversy

OpenAI’s Sora: Viral AI Video App Arrives on Android Amid Excitement and Controversy

OpenAI’s Sora is a new generative AI app that has rapidly gone from a closed beta to a widening public release on mobile devices. The company first rolled out Sora as an invite-only iOS app at the end of September 2025, initially limited to users in the United States and Canada reuters.com. One month later, in early November, OpenAI brought Sora to Android, significantly broadening its reach to key markets in Asia and beyond moneycontrol.com. The Android app launched on Google Play without a waitlist in some regions as OpenAI temporarily waived its usual invite-code requirement to meet surging demand androidauthority.com. This staggered rollout mirrors how OpenAI handled previous products, using an invite system to manage scaling. Sora is free
November 5, 2025
Never Forget Your Doctor’s Advice: NHS Embraces New AI “Medical Memory” App

Never Forget Your Doctor’s Advice: NHS Embraces New AI “Medical Memory” App

The Mirror app is designed to be a patient’s personal note-taker. During any healthcare visit – from GP appointments to hospital clinics – Mirror uses your smartphone microphone to capture the conversation. It then automatically generates a clear, jargon-free summary of what the doctor or nurse said newsfilecorp.com htworld.co.uk. After the appointment, patients can open the app and see bullet-point notes of key points, diagnoses, prescriptions, and next steps. The app even lets you ask questions about the visit; Mirror will answer based on the recorded discussion, helping clarify any confusion newsfilecorp.com. Importantly, Mirror prioritises privacy and accuracy. Audio recordings are deleted immediately after transcription, so no one keeps raw audio newsfilecorp.com htworld.co.uk. The app also reminds users that AI
October 25, 2025
Honor’s Magic8 Series Unveiled: 200MP AI Zoom Camera, YOYO AI Button & Smart Shopping Tools

Honor’s Magic8 Series Unveiled: 200MP AI Zoom Camera, YOYO AI Button & Smart Shopping Tools

Honor’s CEO Li Jian framed the Magic8 launch as ushering in a new “AI phone era.” He noted that the smartphone revolution began with the iPhone and now Honor aims to lead the next wave huaweicentral.com. Indeed, Honor brands the Magic8 as “the first self-evolving AI smartphone” honor.com. The company introduced a host of AI innovations: a next-gen YOYO AI agent that can anticipate tasks, and a dedicated AI Button on the phone’s side for instant access to services honor.com. Long-pressing the new AI Button starts a “YOYO Video Call,” letting users point the camera at an object or scene and hear an immediate description honor.com. A double-press still snaps a photo, and a single tap can be set to
October 20, 2025
Alphabet’s Verily Unveils ‘Verily Me’: Free AI Health App Turns Your Medical Records into Personalized Doctor Advice
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Alphabet’s Verily Unveils ‘Verily Me’: Free AI Health App Turns Your Medical Records into Personalized Doctor Advice

Background and outlook. Verily Me marks the Alphabet group’s latest consumer push in digital health. Verily was founded in 2015 as a precision-health/AI arm of Google and has a track record in medical devices and research. This is its first app aimed directly at everyday patients. The launch follows broader industry trends of using AI to mine patient data: health records are now considered “crude oil” fueling the AI revolution in healthcare statnews.com, and companies are racing to give consumers more control and insights from their data. While Verily Me offers free advice, it also benefits Verily’s long-term goals. By encouraging users to share records and join Lifelong, Verily gains de-identified real-world data that can be sold to drug companies
October 19, 2025
ChatGPT App’s Meteoric Rise Stalls: Downloads Dip and Daily Usage Tumbles as Rivals Surge

ChatGPT App’s Meteoric Rise Stalls: Downloads Dip and Daily Usage Tumbles as Rivals Surge

ChatGPT’s mobile app — which rocketed to the top of iOS and Android charts after its 2023 launch — now shows signs of peaking. According to Apptopia, global download growth “slowed after April” of 2025 and has flattened in recent months techcrunch.com techcrunch.com. In practical terms, October 2025 downloads were tracking ~8% below September’s level techcrunch.com. At the same time, daily engagement metrics are easing. Apptopia finds U.S. users are spending significantly less time in the app than before. Average time per active user has fallen 22.5% since July, and average sessions per user have dropped 20.7% techcrunch.com. In other words, Americans are using ChatGPT less frequently and for shorter periods each day. These trends coincide with reports that total
October 18, 2025
Apple’s M5 Chip Surprise: MacBook Pro, iPad Pro & Vision Pro Get Massive AI Upgrades

Apple’s M5 Chip Surprise: MacBook Pro, iPad Pro & Vision Pro Get Massive AI Upgrades

Apple’s latest silicon, the M5, is at the heart of this fall’s product refresh. Announced on October 15, 2025, the M5 is described as a faster, more efficient, and more capable system-on-chip built specifically to excel at AI and graphics tasks apple.com. It’s manufactured on an improved 3 nm process and features an advanced 10-core GPU where each core integrates a Neural Accelerator – a design that dramatically speeds up machine learning computations. Apple says the M5 delivers “over 4× the peak GPU compute performance for AI compared to M4”, and up to 45% higher overall graphics performance than the last generation apple.com macworld.com. The CPU side also sees gains: M5 uses what Apple touts as “the world’s fastest performance
October 16, 2025
Honor’s ‘Robot Phone’ Concept Puts a Wall‑E‑Like AI Camera in Your Pocket

Honor’s ‘Robot Phone’ Concept Puts a Wall‑E‑Like AI Camera in Your Pocket

Smartphone maker Honor has stunned tech watchers by teasing a device it calls the “Robot Phone.” Unlike any handset on the market, this concept phone features a single camera on a mechanical arm that folds out from the back theverge.com theverge.com. Once deployed, the camera can rotate freely to face any direction, essentially giving the phone a swiveling “eye.” In Honor’s CGI teaser video, the camera even moves on its own – peeking around, tilting like a curious pet, and emitting little giggles of wonder 9to5google.com. The effect is deliberately whimsical, making the gadget feel less like a slab of electronics and more like a pocket-sized robot sidekick. Tech blog Droid-Life quipped that the device appears to have its own
October 16, 2025
Nvidia’s Tiny $4K Spark PC Puts a 1-PetaFLOP AI Supercomputer on Your Desk

Nvidia’s Tiny $4K Spark PC Puts a 1-PetaFLOP AI Supercomputer on Your Desk

For years, running cutting-edge AI models required expensive cloud instances or room-sized servers. Now Nvidia’s DGX Spark aims to put that power literally within arm’s reach. Starting this week, anyone can order the DGX Spark – a petite desktop AI computer delivering roughly one petaFLOP of performance – for $3,999theverge.comtheverge.com. Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang has dubbed Spark a new class of “personal AI supercomputer” meant to bring data-center-class AI “from cloud services to desktop and edge applications”nvidianews.nvidia.com. In practical terms, that means a researcher or developer could fine-tune a large language model or run a 200-billion-parameter generative AI model locally on their desk without needing a supercomputer clustertheverge.com. Despite its lofty performance, the DGX Spark is physically unassuming – about
October 14, 2025
Google’s Gemini AI Takes Over Your Calendar – No More Back‑and‑Forth on Meeting Times

Google’s Gemini AI Takes Over Your Calendar – No More Back‑and‑Forth on Meeting Times

For anyone who’s ever suffered the tedious “When are you free to meet?” email tango, Google’s latest Workspace AI perk feels like a godsend. The new “Help me schedule” button in Gmail is essentially a personal scheduling assistant living right inside your inboxtheverge.com. It harnesses Google’s Gemini AI – the tech giant’s advanced generative AI – to handle the grunt work of meeting coordination. When you’re emailing someone about setting up a meeting, Gmail will now detect the scheduling intent and proactively offer to helptheverge.com. With one click, it scans your Google Calendar for open slots and pops up a neatly formatted list of times you could meettheverge.com. You can think of it as Gmail saying, “Don’t worry, I’ve checked
October 14, 2025