Morning Brief

1. Samsung Releases Galaxy Z TriFold
2. Sony Releases Alpha 7 V
3. Apple Music, Amazon Music, and YouTube Launch Annual Recaps
4. XREAL Announces New AR Glasses: XREAL 1S
5. Raspberry Pi Releases 1GB Version of Raspberry Pi 5
6. DeepSeek Launches DeepSeek-V3.2 and DeepSeek-V3.2-Speciale
7. John Giannandrea to Step Down from Apple
8. Genshin Impact PS5 Limited Edition Controller Officially Revealed
9. TGA “Players’ Voice” First-Round List Announced
10. Rumors — Just for Your Curiosity

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Samsung Releases Galaxy Z TriFold

On December 2, Samsung officially unveiled its first tri-fold smartphone, the Galaxy Z TriFold. The device uses an inward-folding design, with both sides folding toward each other to protect the main display. To support this, Samsung added various screen and vibration prompts to alert users when the folding action is incorrect.

In terms of hardware, the Galaxy Z TriFold features a 10-inch Dynamic AMOLED display with QXGA resolution when unfolded, supporting a 120Hz refresh rate and peak brightness of 1,600 nits. The outer display measures 6.5 inches with a peak brightness of 2,600 nits. For dimensions, the device is 3.9 mm thick at its thinnest point when unfolded, 4.2 mm at the center of the screen, and 4.0 mm around the side button area. It weighs just 309 grams, uses second-generation Corning Gorilla Ceramic Glass for the outer display, features a titanium alloy hinge and high-strength armor aluminum frame, and offers IP48 protection against freshwater immersion and solid particle intrusion.

Other specifications include a Snapdragon 8 Elite for Galaxy chip (3 nm process), a 5,600 mAh battery with 45W wired charging, 16GB of RAM, and 512GB or 1TB storage options. The rear camera system includes a 200-MP wide-angle main camera, a 12-MP ultra-wide camera, and a 10-MP telephoto lens. The outer display houses a 10-MP front camera, while the main screen includes an additional 10-MP under-display camera.

The Galaxy Z TriFold comes in a single Crafted Black color. It will launch first in South Korea on December 12 at a starting price of 3,590,400 KRW, and will arrive later this month in China, Singapore, and the United Arab Emirates. Source

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Sony Releases Alpha 7 V

On December 2, Sony China announced the full-frame mirrorless Alpha 7 V (model ILCE-7M5). Pre-orders begin immediately, with a suggested retail price of 17,999 RMB.

The Sony Alpha 7 V features a partially stacked Exmor RS CMOS sensor with approximately 33 million effective pixels, paired with the BIONZ XR2 image processor. It integrates AI-driven processing for accurate auto white balance, enabling precise estimation of lighting conditions from the captured scene to reproduce more accurate colors and reduce post-processing work. The camera also supports a pre-capture function that records up to one second of footage before the shutter is released, offering advantages for dynamic scenes such as pets and sports. Source

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Apple Music, Amazon Music, and YouTube Launch Annual Recaps

On December 2, Apple introduced Apple Music Replay, showcasing users’ most-played songs, artists, and albums over the past year. In addition to listening time, number of artists played, most consistently played artists, and preferred genres, this year’s Replay adds new sections—Discovery, Loyalty, and Comebacks—to help users revisit their musical journey from new perspectives. Replay can be accessed through the Apple Music Home tab.

Apple also shared several artist statistics: the most popular song on Apple Music in 2025 is APT by ROSÉ and Bruno Mars; luther by Kendrick Lamar and SZA ranks second; Die With A Smile by Lady Gaga and Bruno Mars ranks third; Kendrick Lamar’s Not Like Us takes fourth place, and Billie Eilish’s Birds of a Feather ranks fifth.Source

YouTube announced via an official blog post the rollout of YouTube Recap, its annual review feature. Similar to the existing Recap feature for YouTube Music, it presents users’ yearly viewing themes, top interest categories, favorite creators, and musical artists in a short “story” format. YouTube Recap begins rolling out immediately to users in North America, with other regions to follow, accessible via the “Me” tab in the app or on the web. Source

Amazon Music has also released its 2025 annual report, featuring a visual design inspired by music festival posters. In addition to personal and platform-wide streaming statistics, Amazon Music’s annual recap includes unique sections such as “Most Popular Alexa Requests.” Source

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XREAL Announces New AR Glasses: XREAL 1S

On December 1, XREAL announced its new AR glasses, the XREAL 1S, the first device in its category to introduce automatic 2D-to-3D content conversion. The XREAL 1S weighs 82g and features dual 0.68-inch Sony OLED microdisplays with a per-eye resolution of 1920×1200. It supports a maximum refresh rate of 120Hz (30Hz in 2D-to-3D mode), 700 nits brightness, 52° FOV, and ΔE < 3 color accuracy. It is powered by XREAL’s custom X1 spatial computing chip and achieves M2P latency as low as 3 ms. The device includes audio tuned by BOSE and a four-microphone array. The XREAL 1S is priced at 67,980 yen in the Japanese market. Source

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Raspberry Pi Releases 1GB Version of Raspberry Pi 5

On December 1, the Raspberry Pi Foundation announced price adjustments for some Raspberry Pi 4/5 models due to rising LPDDR4 memory costs. The 4GB Raspberry Pi 4 increases from $55 to $60, and the 4GB Raspberry Pi 5 rises from $60 to $70. Raspberry Pi has also introduced a new 1GB version of the Raspberry Pi 5, priced at $45. In addition, the 16GB Compute Module 5 will see a $20 increase. Prices for earlier models such as the Raspberry Pi 3+ and the Raspberry Pi Zero will remain unchanged. Source

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DeepSeek Launches DeepSeek-V3.2 and DeepSeek-V3.2-Speciale

On December 1, DeepSeek announced two official models: DeepSeek-V3.2 and DeepSeek-V3.2-Speciale. The official website, app, and API have all been updated to the V3.2 model for general use. The Speciale version is currently available only as a temporary API service, intended primarily for community evaluation and research.

DeepSeek-V3.2 aims to balance reasoning ability with output length, making it suitable for everyday use cases such as Q&A interactions and general Agent tasks. According to public reasoning benchmarks, DeepSeek-V3.2 performs at a GPT-5 level, slightly below Gemini-3.0-Pro. Compared to Kimi-K2-Thinking, V3.2 significantly reduces output length, lowering computational overhead and reducing user wait times. V3.2-Speciale is an enhanced long-thinking variant that integrates theorem-proving capabilities from DeepSeek-Math-V2. It offers strong instruction-following performance, rigorous mathematical proofs, and logical verification. Its benchmark performance rivals Gemini-3.0-Pro and surpasses the standard V3.2 model in highly complex tasks, though it consumes more tokens and is more costly to use. Source

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John Giannandrea to Step Down from Apple

On December 1, Apple announced that John Giannandrea, Senior Vice President of Machine Learning and AI Strategy, will step down from his role. He will continue serving as an advisor to the company until retiring in spring 2026. Apple also announced that renowned AI researcher Amar Subramanya has joined the company as Vice President of AI, reporting to Craig Federighi. Subramanya will oversee several key domains, including Apple’s foundation models, machine learning research, and AI safety and evaluation. Giannandrea’s former teams will transition under Sabih Khan and Eddy Cue to enhance cross-team collaboration.

Before joining Apple, Amar Subramanya served as Microsoft’s Corporate Vice President for AI and spent 16 years at Google, where he was the engineering lead for the Gemini AI assistant. Source

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Genshin Impact PS5 Limited Edition Controller Officially Revealed

On December 2, Sony Interactive Entertainment and miHoYo jointly unveiled the limited-edition Genshin Impact PS5 DualSense controller, which will open for pre-orders on December 11, 2025. The controller features a dreamy white, gold, and green color scheme, adorned with mystical runes and illustrations of the Traveler twins and Paimon, capturing the signature atmosphere of the game. Starting January 21, 2026, the controller will launch first in selected Asian markets including Japan. From February 25, 2026 onward, it will roll out across North America, Latin America, Europe, the Middle East, Africa, Australia, and New Zealand. Release dates and availability may vary by region. Source

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TGA “Players’ Voice” First-Round List Announced

The first-round voting list for The Game Awards 2025 “Players’ Voice” category has officially been released. This category is the only award in TGA 2025 determined entirely by player voting, and this year features a total of 30 popular titles. In the first round, players may vote for up to 10 games from the 30 nominees. Voting closes on December 3 at 10:00 a.m. The full list of selected titles is as follows (sorted alphabetically by English titles):

The second round will begin on December 5 at 1:00 a.m., during which players may select up to 5 games from the 10 titles advancing from the first round. Voting for this stage ends on December 7 at 10:00 a.m. The final round will start on December 9 at 1:00 a.m. and conclude on December 11 at 10:00 a.m., closing simultaneously with all other public voting categories. Source

Rumors — Just for Your Curiosity

• Developer @wuxianlin recently discovered Smartisan and SmartisanOS-related code in a teardown of the Doubao mobile system software. ByteDance acquired partial usage rights to Smartisan’s patents in January 2019 and has previously responded to rumors regarding potential smartphone development. Source

• Deadline reports that Amazon’s God of War series has officially entered full pre-production and has already been greenlit for two seasons. Frederick E. O. Toye—known for directing episodes of Fallout, The Boys, Westworld, and winner of the Emmy Award for Outstanding Directing (Drama) for Shōgun—will direct the first two episodes of God of War. Source

• On December 2, French startup Mistral announced the Mistral 3 series of open-weight models, including one large frontier model with multimodal and multilingual capabilities, as well as nine smaller models that are fully customizable and suitable for offline use. Source