Samsung’s Galaxy S25 telephones are skinny, large, boring, and AI

Samsung’s new telephones will nearly definitely be the preferred Android telephones of 2025. They’ll most likely even be among the many greatest Android telephones of 2025. And but the Unpacked occasion this week felt like some of the boring cellphone launches… ever. Are we getting into a brand new section of the smartphone trade, through which firms mainly simply launch the identical factor again and again? Wait a second: have we been in that section for some time now?

After that, we take a deep breath and wade into the primary week of the brand new Trump administration. The Verge’s Lauren Feiner explains what’s occurring with Stargate, and why a $500 billion AI data-center plan is being introduced within the White Home. We speak about The US Digital Service going full DOGE, the controversy over Elon Musk’s salute, and the most recent deeply complicated updates on the TikTok ban. TikTok is again! For now. Possibly not for lengthy. However perhaps for good? We’ve obtained 70 or so days to determine it out.

If you wish to know extra about all the things we focus on on this episode, listed below are some hyperlinks to get you began, starting with Samsung:

And within the lightning spherical: