That is Android Central’s Information Weekly, your go-to supply for a concise roundup of the week’s most vital tech tales. That is the place we delve into the highest headlines that present the newest developments and improvements contributing to the digital panorama.

This week, Android 16‘s steady model lastly lands on Pixel units, Samsung drops one other tease for its “Extremely” Galaxy Z Fold 7, alleged Galaxy Watch 8 renders present up on-line, Google and ChatGPT skilled outages this week, and One UI 8’s second beta arrives on the Galaxy S25 sequence. Let’s dive proper in!

Android 16 takes flight and Pixels catch the primary journey

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Android 16 has lastly arrived, and Pixel telephones would be the first to expertise this new steady model of the OS. After a number of Beta releases and virtually giving us a touch at nearly all of the options of the brand new OS, Google launched the steady model of the software program this week.

Android 16 brings with it probably the most awaited options —stay updates or real-time notifications, permitting customers to trace all the pieces from meals supply to ride-sharing, all from the lockscreen or the notification drop-down.

Folks utilizing listening to aids, because of LE Audio, additionally get a little bit one thing with this OS replace. With Android 16, customers could have the flexibility to change to utilizing their cellphone’s microphone for clearer calls in noisy environments.

Android 16 is bringing extra instruments for customers to guard themselves from undesirable rip-off apps, calls, or different on-line threats. Google’s “strongest cellular machine safety,” Advanced Protection, as soon as enabled, prompts a spread of strong machine safety features on the cellphone.

Lastly, bigger display units additionally get one thing out of Android 16. Google says it is making multitasking seamless on foldables and tablets, bringing a characteristic referred to as “Desktop Windowing,” which was teased at Google I/O 2025. This characteristic will permit customers to have a number of app home windows open, movable, and resizable on a single display, much like what you are able to do on a pc.

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Samsung teases AI powered cameras for its upcoming Z Fold

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This week, Samsung dropped one other teaser for its upcoming Z Fold 7, and this time it is hinting on the machine’s cameras. In its newest weblog submit, Samsung previewed a brand new clever digicam system that may be extra intuitive and perceive what customers are capturing and modify itself to match any scenario.

“As AI evolves from text-based prompts to multimodal understanding, Galaxy units have gotten smarter — in a position to get what you’re and reply to conditions. The digicam is on the coronary heart of this transformation,” the corporate defined.

“Greater than only a software for capturing photos, coupled with enhanced AI-powered options, the Galaxy digicam is now a part of the intuitive interface that turns what customers see into understanding and motion.”

The corporate additionally provides that these cameras will simply adapt to the customers’ wants and make capturing moments extra private and seamless, with the facility of AI.

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Galaxy Watch 8 reveals renders present up on-line

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Samsung Galaxy Watch 8 leaks maintain getting higher. This week, leaked renders of the alleged watch confirmed up on-line, giving us a good suggestion of what the precise machine would possibly appear like.

The renders recommended that the Galaxy Watch 8 would present up with a squircle design, as seen in earlier leaks as properly. The renders of the machine present the wearable in a sleeker design, with white straps, a square-ish silver base, and its round watch face on high. The Watch 8 is alleged to have solely two bodily buttons and are available two sizes.

Moreover, somebody ended up importing footage of the alleged Galaxy Watch 8 Basic on eBay. Within the itemizing, the smartwatch is seen with a leather-based strap, a round (extra squircle) design, with a outstanding crown sitting between two buttons. The audio system are additionally seen on one facet of the smartwatch. The Galaxy Watch 8 Basic is anticipated to point out up with a metal or titanium end.

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The week of outages

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This week noticed outages on a number of on-line platforms, starting with ChatGPT on June 10, the place customers skilled an enormous 12-hour outage. In accordance with DownDetector, a number of reviews of the outage started trickling in at round 2:20 am ET, with the spike in outage reviews at round 5:30 am ET within the U.S. The outage impacted folks throughout Europe, North America, and Australia as they confronted difficulties accessing ChatGPT.

OpenAI took to X to verify the outage and acknowledged that they’ve recognized the basis trigger and are working as quick as attainable to repair the difficulty.

Moreover, nearly all of Google’s providers, like Gmail, Meet, Search, Nest, and Cloud, have been all offline for hundreds this afternoon (June 12). Together with these platforms, Spotify was additionally among the many platforms impacted.

There have been greater than 13,000 incidents of individuals reporting points with Google Cloud by 3:30 pm ET, and greater than 27,000 reviews on Spotify through Downdetector. Each Google and Spotify acknowledged the outage and have been updating their respective standing web sites promptly.

Third-party web sites that depend on Google’s providers have additionally been affected by this outage. These apps embrace Snapchat, Discord, and extra.

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One UI 8 Beta 2 lands on the Galaxy S25 sequence

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Samsung has rolled out the second beta of its One UI 8 replace, that introduced a number of new options, a number of bug fixes, and the newest June safety patch to the Samsung Galaxy S25 sequence.

The brand new updates embrace consumer suggestions characteristic “to enhance interpreter efficiency.” Different notable modifications have been introduced in, like textual content alignment points for Now Temporary, and enhancements throughout widgets, and fingerprint unlock errors have been additionally addressed. Galaxy AI, Clock app, and digicam app-related bugs additionally appear to have been mounted.

That mentioned, the primary One UI 8 beta appears to be touchdown on extra units and in numerous areas. In accordance with SamMobile and tipster Tarun Vats on X, Samsung has opened up the primary beta for Galaxy S25 sequence customers in India and Poland. It is usually a large 3.6GB replace that’s bringing the June 2025 safety patch.

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Extra tales this week

These are a few of the largest tales from this week. In the meantime, listed here are another tales which might be value catching up on: