#ambient-ai

#ambient-ai

Lenovo and Motorola launched Qira, an ambient AI assistant that works seamlessly across devices and performs cross-app tasks, including offline file transfers.

Samsung appears to have shelved the Ballie smart home robot and is not proceeding with a consumer release despite earlier demos.

Alexa+ is a generative AI assistant on Echo devices that provides ambient, conversational household management to reduce everyday mental load.

The most valuable software quietly removes friction, becoming ambient infrastructure that users notice only when it fails.

Samsung is launching a Windows port of Samsung Internet to expand into PC, integrate ambient AI features, and compete with Google and Qualcomm.

AI-powered agentic commerce will shift shopping from user-initiated searches to proactive and autopilot purchases embedded in conversational assistants.

AI agents are shifting shopping from search to proactive and autopilot purchases, increasing convenience while reducing consumer control and raising manipulation risks.