OpenAI wants its own Alexa, but on steroids. Its first device seeks to change the relationship with AI, according to Bloomberg

Home assistants have been operating for years around a simple logic: we give an order, the device executes a task and the relationship usually ends there. The bet that OpenAI would be working on aims precisely to break that limit and give artificial intelligence a more continuous role within the home. It wouldn’t just be about answering questions or activating services, but about learning from the user and offering help before they have to ask for it. The OpenAI device. According to BloombergOpenAI is working on a screenless home device, similar in general appearance to a speaker, but designed to be moved around the house thanks to a rechargeable battery. The company would like to make it the physical embodiment of ChatGPTcapable of responding to messages, playing content, controlling connected devices and helping with different tasks. It should be noted that the company has not presented it and there is no official information yet. Jony Ive, Apple’s former design chief, is also behind the project. OpenAI paid $6.5 billion in 2025 for io Productsthe company he had co-founded, while his studio LoveFrom participates in the design of this new family of devices. The team also brings together numerous former Apple designers and engineers responsible for products like the iPhone and Mac, a concentration of talent that helps understand both the ambition of the project and the legal conflict surrounding it. Your own Alexa, but with another ambition. The entry of the firm led by Sam Altman in the home it would put it in front of Amazon, Google and Apple, companies that have been building their own ecosystems of speakers, assistants and connected devices for years. According to the aforementioned medium, the difference would be in a more personalized and proactive experience, capable of learning from the user and offering information without always waiting for an order. OpenAI would describe it internally not as a simple smart speaker, but as a computer conceived from the beginning to work with artificial intelligence. The difference would be in its ability to interpret what is happening around it using a camera, several sensors and more advanced models than those available in conventional home assistants. Instead of processing an isolated instruction, the system could take into account the environment and the specific moment to determine what information is useful and how to respond. New voice model. Much of that experience would depend on GPT-Livea more advanced version of ChatGPT’s voice mode that OpenAI launched in July 2026. The idea is that you can listen and speak at the same time, adapting more naturally during conversations and processing information quickly. The device would also incorporate mechanical elements capable of moving on their own. With this, the company would try to reinforce the personality of the device and generate the feeling that “it is alive.” To anticipate, you will have to know us. OpenAI would like the device to become a kind of expert on its user over time, capable of identifying what information may be useful at any given moment. Bloomberg notes that to achieve this, it could turn to personal information, such as emails, and use it to better understand its owner. This personalization would be one of its main arguments, but it would also force us to decide to what extent we are willing to open our digital lives. Apple’s lawsuit. The project is also moving forward under pressure from a Apple lawsuitwhich accuses OpenAI of having used trade secrets to accelerate the development of its devices. OpenAI maintains that it knows of no evidence to support those accusations, although Apple has requested a court order that could delay its commercialization. According to Bloomberg, the company aims to present the product during 2026 and launch it in 2027, as long as the technical and legal process allows it. The final bet is to turn ChatGPT into a physical presence that we live with daily. Images | OpenAI/LoveFrom In Xataka | Alexa+ arrives in Spain with the ambition of understanding real conversations: we have seen it in action and everything changes there

In full nervousness for the cutting of submarine cables, China has a final weapon: a radio in steroids

The Submarine cables They are one of the most important elements today. Not only is it a huge infrastructure that organizations and companies continue to develop -with such ambitious projects as the Meta cablewhich will take more than one return to the earth-but have become today thanks to the Ukraine War already maneuvers at the South China Sea. It is in this conflict that Some cut cables They have triggered the fear of running out of the Internet, and everything that implies. These cables are protected, but can be damaged by ships. Now, China has presented a device designed with a task in mind: cut underwater cables. And it is the first time that someone announces that he has a tool capable of interrupting critical underwater networks. The importance of cables. There are more than 1.4 billion meters of submarine cables that connect all countries. There are other thousands of kilometers planned, and the vast majority of communications in some countries depend on these cables. 95% of them in the case of Australiafor example, and I know esteem that 95% of the data managed by the American population and 75% by China depend on them. They are vital for the Internet and all that this implies, such as streaming, artificial intelligence or servers, and this year they have become protagonists in war scenarios. Countries in conflict have realized that they can cause great damage by cutting these cables by boats or through more sophisticated techniques, such as Sound attacks. There are times that They are simple accidentsbut the suspicion that a damaged underwater cable corresponds to an enemy attack is something that is there. And more now with what they just announced from China. The Chinese device. As we read in South China Morning Postthe State Key Laboratory of Deep Water Crewing Vehicles and the Scientific Research Center of Ships of China, have developed a tool that describe as “compact” and that is capable of cutting the most sophisticated underwater communication lines or energy in the world. As it is a tool designed specifically for this, it has been conceived to cut cables at depths of up to 4,000 meters. There are no cables right now that they are in such depth, but its creators have provided the device with a completely sealed titanium alloy housing to resist that enormous pressure. This is Haidu, and can carry this “radial” Your weapons. The device is equipped with a kilowatt engine and as a cutting tool uses a 150 millimeter diamond wheel that rotates at 1,600 revolutions per minute. Let’s say it is the mixture between a protected drone to endure very high pressures and a radial. This cutting tool allows to destroy up to armored cables that have steel layers, rubber and polymeric coating. And its form has been designed so that it can be integrated both in manned and non -manned submersibles of China. For example, haidou vehicles or Fondouzhe could have this as one of their tools. He Haiduas a curiosity, it is an unmanned submersible in the form of fish and eyes drawings and fins created for exploration. He Fendouzhe It is a manned submarine, also for research and exploration. World Order. As we say, threaten to cut underwater cables It is not something new. We have seen it in the Ukraine War, but it is the first time that a country officially reveals a tool designed exclusively for that task. Of course, those responsible affirm that the tool has been created for civil purposes. Which is it? Rescue and mining operations in the maritime bed, but it is evident that it is a tool that is surely causing the other neck itching in rulers around the world. It is clear that such a tool can destabilize communications in a crisis and be used strategically during an attack. And it is not only communication, but everything that has to do with the Internet, such as servers and services that depend on them. Debate and consequences. When a cable is cut, communications are rapidly redirected through another, since they are prepared to have a large bandwidth. Therefore, important interruptions are not usually produced, but that cable You have to repair itbeing a fairly expensive process. Now, when it is not a single cut cable, but several, that connection may be set. It is what has led to a debate about the need to protect infrastructure. NATO has launched The mission “Baltic Sentry” To patrol sensitive regions with airplanes, drones and warships. There are also companies that are offering advanced cable monitoring services, answering all measures to a single issue: the protection of infrastructure and early detection to prevent cuts. That there are countries that have already made public that have sophisticated tools for cutting submarine cables and interfering with world geopolitics, is a new headache. Images | Akamgo Yalms (2), What’s Inside In Xataka | Finland entered the suspicious ship of sabotage in the Baltic. What he found was much worse: a spy ship for Russia

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