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OpenAI Fast-Tracking AI Phone for 2027 Launch, Says Kuo

OpenAI Fast-Tracking AI Phone for 2027 Launch, Says Kuo

Published by skeptic

OpenAI is said to be fast-tracking development of its first “AI agent phone,” with the company now aiming to mass produce the device as early as the first half of next year, according to industry analyst Ming-Chi Kuo. Late last month, Kuo revealed OpenAI’s work on a smartphone, contradicting earlier reports that the company had no plans to enter the mobile market. Kuo said MediaTek and Qualcomm are the chosen chip partners and Luxshare Precision Industry is the exclusive manufacturing partner, with mass production scheduled for 2028. Reasons for Kuo’s revised 1H27 production target are now said to include OpenAI’s planned initial public offering (i.e. a compelling hardware product could strengthen its story to investors if it goes public) and intensifying competition in AI agent phones. Kuo says MediaTek appears “better positioned to become the sole processor supplier,” with the device set to use a customized version of the Dimensity 9600, which will apparently be built on TSMC’s N2P node in 2H26. The device’s “headline spec” will allegedly be its image signal processor, featuring an …

Singapore leaders pay tribute to late Eddie Kuo, founding dean of NTU’s WKWSCI

Singapore leaders pay tribute to late Eddie Kuo, founding dean of NTU’s WKWSCI

Published by Sam Flores

Singapore leaders paid tribute to Professor Eddie Kuo, the founding dean of the Wee Kim Wee School of Communication and Information (WKWSCI) at Nanyang Technological University (NTU), with reflections on his academic contributions to Singapore.  A respected academic, Prof Kuo died at the age of 85 on Monday (Mar 23). He was also an honorary advisor for the Centre for Chinese Studies (CCS) at the Singapore University of Social Sciences (SUSS). Before his role as founding dean at WKWSCI, Prof Kuo served as head of the National University of Singapore’s sociology department and director of its mass communication programme.  Minister for Education Desmond Lee said that he was saddened by Prof Kuo’s passing. In a Facebook post, Mr Lee wrote that Prof Kuo “was widely regarded as the founding father of communication studies in Singapore” who built an international reputation as a scholar, teacher and education policymaker. “Even after stepping down from formal leadership, he continued teaching and nurturing young minds,” he said.  “His research on language policy, national integration, and the sociology of multilingualism …