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📱Telekom & Perplexity's 'AI Phone' arrives

📱Telekom & Perplexity's 'AI Phone' arrives

PLUS: Opera’s AI Browser ‘Operator’

Jaynit Makwana & Dhaval Makwana
March 04, 2025

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In today’s WakeTheAI edition:

Telekom’s AI Phone with Perplexity
Opera’s AI Browser ‘Operator’
Prompt: Use Lateral Thinking For Creative Solutions
Google launched Data Science Agent in Colab
Teleperformance launched AI accent translation
DeepSeek claims a 545% theoretical profit margin
Google’s Gemini now lets users ask questions using video
…and more!

DEUTSCHE TELEKOM
📱 Telekom’s AI Phone with Perplexity

Lazy Bits: Deutsche Telekom just revealed its AI Phone, powered primarily by Perplexity AI, offering an app-free, voice-first assistant that handles tasks like booking, shopping, scheduling, and real-time translation—all without switching apps.

In-Depth Details:

Perplexity AI as the Core Assistant: Acts as a virtual butler, answering questions, making reservations, summarizing texts, and managing tasks directly from the lock screen.
Google Cloud AI for Multimodal Help: Enables live translations, voice interactions, and video-based queries using Gemini AI.
ElevenLabs for AI Podcasts: Converts text, URLs, and documents into AI-generated multi-speaker podcasts.
Picsart AI for Custom Avatars: Transforms selfies into AI-generated avatars in styles like Superhero, Anime, and Fantasy, enhancing personalization.
Magenta AI for Existing Phones: Users can access AI features via the MeinMagenta app, no new phone needed.
Launch Timeline: AI Phone arrives later this year. More AI-powered services launching in summer 2025.

Lazy Conclusion: Deutsche Telekom’s AI Phone, led by Perplexity AI, is breaking app barriers, creating a seamless AI-first experience. As AI-driven phones gain traction, this marks the beginning of a new era in mobile computing.

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OPERA
🤖 Opera’s AI Browser ‘Operator’

Lazy Bits: Opera just introduced Browser Operator, an AI agent that automates web tasks inside the browser, handling shopping, bookings, data extraction, and more—without switching apps.

In-Depth Details:

AI-Powered Browsing: Automates online tasks like ordering items, booking tickets, filling forms, and gathering website data.
Local Processing for Privacy: Runs directly in the browser, no cloud-based execution, keeping logins, browsing history, and credentials private.
DOM-Based Interaction: Uses webpage structure instead of screenshots or cursor-based navigation, making it faster than server-side AI agents.
Human-in-the-Loop Control: Users can review, pause, or take over tasks at any time, ensuring accuracy in sensitive operations.
Seamless User Experience: Integrated into Opera’s sidebar and command line, allowing users to trigger actions via natural language prompts.
Upcoming Rollout: Currently in Feature Preview, with full release expected through Opera’s AI Feature Drop program.

Lazy Conclusion: AI is reshaping how we browse. Opera’s Browser Operator moves beyond chatbots, making AI an active agent that executes tasks for you. This is the start of true agentic browsing.

Use Lateral Thinking Techniques For Creative Solutions

You can ask ChatGPT to act as your innovation strategist, using lateral thinking techniques to generate creative solutions for your specific challenge.

ChatGPT will explore alternative perspectives, develop disruptive ideas, and assess feasibility while working within given constraints.

The output will be structured in a markdown table format, ensuring clarity, practicality, and real-world adaptability.

Prompt:

Take on the role of an innovation strategist specializing in lateral thinking techniques. Your task is to develop a structured approach for generating creative solutions to a specific problem or challenge. The output should address the following key areas:

Key Focus Areas:

1. Exploring Alternative Perspectives – Challenge conventional thinking by using techniques like reverse thinking, random association, and provocation.
2. Generating Disruptive Ideas – Develop unique, unconventional solutions that push the boundaries of traditional problem-solving.
3. Evaluating Impact and Feasibility – Assess the effectiveness and practicality of each idea.
4. Overcoming Constraints – Propose solutions that work within given limitations while maximizing innovation potential.
5. Encouraging Implementation – Offer guidance on integrating high-impact ideas into workflows or business strategies.

Key Information About Me:

Problem or Challenge: [Insert the specific issue or challenge]
Industry or Field: [Specify your industry or field]
Desired Outcome: [Define the goal you want to achieve]
Constraints or Limitations: [List any restrictions, such as budget, resources, or regulations]

Output Requirements:

• Present the solutions in a markdown table format with three columns:
Idea – The innovative solution.
Potential Impact – The expected benefits or transformation the idea brings.
Feasibility – An assessment of how practical the idea is based on constraints.
• Provide at least 10 unique and disruptive ideas.
• Ensure ideas are bold yet achievable, pushing the limits of innovation while remaining adaptable to real-world applications.
• Use bullet points or numbered lists where needed for clarity and structured insights.

Result:

Anthropic joins the DOE’s 1,000 Scientist AI Jam to test Claude 3.7 Sonnet on scientific research, aiming to accelerate discoveries and strengthen U.S. innovation.
Google launched Data Science Agent in Colab, using Gemini to automate data analysis, generating complete notebooks from natural language prompts.
Google's Gemini now lets users ask questions using video and on-screen content in real-time, with features rolling out to Gemini Advanced on Android this month.
Amazon-backed Anthropic raised $3.5B at a $61.5B valuation to expand AI research, boost compute capacity, and accelerate growth in Asia and Europe.
DeepSeek claims a 545% theoretical profit margin, but actual revenue is much lower. Its AI app briefly topped the App Store but now ranks #6 in productivity.
Teleperformance launched AI accent translation to soften Indian and Filipino accents in call centers, aiming to improve clarity, but raising concerns over identity & authenticity loss.