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Deutsche Telekom partners with Perplexity for first true AI phone
Plus: Microsoft's healthcare AI
Amandeep Singh
March 04, 2025
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📱 AI Phone Enters the Chat: T-Mobile's Perplexity Masterpiece
🌐 AI Chips Smuggled: How China Beats US Sanctions
💸 GPT-4.5's eye-watering pricing raises questions.
🩺 Dragon Copilot: AI Transforms Healthcare Forever
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Telekom AI Phone
The AI revolution is hitting your smartphone, and this time, it’s not Apple or Samsung leading the charge.
Deutsche Telekom just announced an "AI Phone" in partnership with Perplexity, marking one of the first major telecom-backed AI-driven smartphones.
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What’s inside?
📲 Perplexity Assistant at Your Fingertips – Access AI directly from the lock screen, no app switching required.
🤖 From Answers to Actions – Perplexity’s AI isn’t just responding to questions; it’s handling tasks.
🌎 AI-Powered Features – Google Cloud AI for live translation, ElevenLabs for instant podcasts, and Picsart for AI avatars.
💰 Affordable AI – Expected to launch later this year for under $1,000, plus a Magenta AI app version rolling out this summer.
Why it matters?
Most phones today dabble in AI, but this could be the first step toward a truly AI-first experience—where assistants replace apps. For Perplexity, this is a game-changer, pushing its AI deeper into everyday tech.
Would you ditch traditional smartphones for an AI-driven one?
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Microsoft
Healthcare is drowning in paperwork. But AI is about to change that.
Microsoft just launched Dragon Copilot, a voice-activated AI assistant designed to slash administrative work for doctors and nurses.
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How does it work?
Seamless dictation & listening: Merges Dragon Medical One’s voice dictation with DAX Copilot’s ambient listening, creating a powerful AI-driven assistant.
Automates documentation: Generates clinical notes, referral letters, and more—freeing up time for patient care.
Proven efficiency: Early tests show clinicians save five minutes per patient and feel less burnout.
Launch date: Rolling out in the U.S. and Canada in May 2025 (desktop, browser, and mobile). More regions coming soon.
Why does it matter?
Healthcare is buried in paperwork, and AI is stepping in to help. Microsoft, Google, and others are racing to reshape medicine—making patient care smoother and administration easier.
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OpenAI is reevaluating the long-term availability of GPT-4.5 through its API, citing its high computational costs and marginal performance gains over GPT-4o. At $75 per million input tokens and $150 per million output tokens, GPT-4.5 is dramatically more expensive than GPT-4o ($2.50/$10) while outperforming it in 63.2% of professional queries, 57% of everyday queries, and 56.8% of creative tasks.
Cisco and NVIDIA are expanding their AI networking partnership, while Cisco is also rolling out next-gen AI security solutions to tackle the growing risks of enterprise AI adoption. Together, these moves position Cisco as a key player in both AI acceleration and AI security.
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