T-MOBILE'S PARENT COMPANY IS MAKING AN AI PHONE WITH PERPLEXITY

Summary from the TLDR newsletter

Deutsche Telekom and Perplexity are partnering to develop an AI phone that will have Perplexity's AI integrated on a system-wide level. Users will be able to interact with the phone's AI assistant even on the lock screen. The phone will offer access to various AI providers. It will have some agentic capabilities, but it is unclear yet how it will execute tasks. The phone will be officially launched in the second half of this year priced at under a thousand dollars and hit the shelves at some point in 2026.