A rival for Gemini?

Samsung could ditch Google

June 04, 2025

Welcome back! Ask your favorite AI tool who should play you in the movie version of your life. If you’re Sam Altman—no need.

The chaotic five days that saw Altman fired and rehired at OpenAI is reportedly being turned into a movie. And the cast? Stacked. Amazon MGM Studios is said to be eyeing Andrew Garfield as Altman, Monica Barbaro as former CTO Mira Murati, and Yura Borisov as co-founder and Altman critic Ilya Sutskever. 

I’ve always said the twists and turns in the AI world feel like a movie. And now they might really be one. 🍿 

Samsung may build Perplexity straight into your phone

Perplexity CEO (Business Insider)

Samsung is reportedly in talks to invest in Perplexity and integrate the AI-powered search tool into its phones. The move would bake Perplexity directly into Samsung’s hardware and apps, making it the go-to assistant out of the box.

Here’s what that could look like:

  • AI-native search preinstalled on Galaxy phones

  • Deeper integrations with Samsung Notes, messages, browser, and more

  • A serious rival to Apple’s Siri + Spotlight and Google’s Gemini rollout

Why it matters: It’s another major step toward embedded AI, where models are rooted into hardware, not just accessed through apps. If this works, your phone’s search bar might not lead to Google at all, but to an AI assistant tuned for speed and specificity. The AI layer is getting closer to the metal.

IBM launches AI labs for the rest of us

IBM just opened a new “watsonx AI Lab” in New York City to bring startups, scale-ups, and enterprises under one roof with its researchers and engineers.

What’s different: IBM says the space will offer hands-on R&D collaboration, mentoring, and tooling to help companies actually build and deploy models.

The bigger trend: IBM’s move reflects a larger shift: breaking down access barriers to frontier AI infrastructure. Forget gatekeeping—the next AI breakthroughs may come from hybrid teams on borrowed GPUs.

The terminal that thinks with you

Warp

Warp is a command-line interface with AI-powered autocomplete, real-time collaboration, and a block-based UI for faster debugging and dev workflows.

How you can use it:

  • Get smart command suggestions and fix errors faster

  • Collaborate on CLI tasks via shared workflows and Team Drive

  • Run cross-platform with custom themes, history, and shortcuts

Pricing: Free plan available; paid starts at $15 per user per month 

Your AWS infra, drag-and-drop deployed

ArchFormation

ArchFormation lets you visually design AWS infrastructure and auto-generate production-ready Terraform code—no cloud engineering required.

How you can use it:

  • Drag and drop components to model your entire backend

  • Export and own the Terraform code with no vendor lock-in

  • Deploy best-practice infrastructure in minutes, not days

Pricing: $49/month

Faster insights from medical literature

PubMed.ai

PubMed.ai streamlines biomedical literature reviews by retrieving, organizing, and summarizing PubMed articles in seconds.

How you can use it:

  • Scan thousands of abstracts and get key points

  • Explore relationships between studies across disciplines

  • Speed up grant writing, clinical research, and thesis prep

Pricing: Free

Jobs, announcements, and big ideas

  • Meta plans to let brands fully create and target ads using AI by the end of next year.

  • Anthropic AI starts writing its own blog with human oversight.

  • Phonely AI agents reach 99% accuracy and feel fully human.

  • Epic Games shares its vision for the State of Unreal 2025.

  • Google NotebookLM adds public sharing for notebooks and AI podcasts.

The future of your computer isn’t in the cloud. I sat down with Microsoft’s head of Windows to find out how on-device AI is about to change everything.

That’s a wrap! See you Friday.

—Matt (FutureTools.io)

P.S. This newsletter is 100% written by a human. Okay, maybe 96%.