A lighter but still revealing AI news day: we look at Nubia’s claim that it is launching the world’s first AI agent smartphone, a new paper on how hidden prompts can manipulate AI-assisted peer review, and research on which large language models held up best in emergency department triage tests.

Covered in this episode:
- Nubia says it will unveil a smartphone it calls the world’s first AI agent phone at WAIC in Shanghai
- Researchers test prompt injection attacks against AI-assisted peer review and find very high success rates
- A triage benchmark compares 15 models on pediatric emergency department scenarios
- Autonomous shopping agents raise a practical question: when should software buy on your behalf?
- Google adds Gemini-powered features to Waze for more conversational reporting and destination search
- A Singapore research role points to growing interest in privacy-preserving federated causal inference
- Apple has sued OpenAI and its hardware chief over alleged theft of tech secrets

Source links:
- https://en.tempo.co/read/2113440/nubia-to-launch-worlds-first-ai-agent-smartphone
- https://doi.org/10.1007/s11192-026-05695-x
- https://doi.org/10.1007/s43678-026-01214-2
- https://www.businesstimes.com.sg/opinion-features/when-should-we-let-autonomous-ai-agent-do-work
- https://www.theverge.com/transportation/964132/waze-gemini-ai-voice-commands-less-chatty
- https://www.timeshighereducation.com/unijobs/listing/413293/research-engineer-federated-causal-inference-in-heterogeneous-data-environments-up/
- https://www.lokmattimes.com/business/apple-sues-openai-over-allegedly-stealing-tech-secrets