{"id":675216,"date":"2026-11-05T01:06:10","date_gmt":"2026-11-05T01:06:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/675216\/"},"modified":"2026-11-05T01:06:10","modified_gmt":"2026-11-05T01:06:10","slug":"nothing-ceo-says-companys-mysterious-ai-first-device-is-dropping-next-month","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/675216\/","title":{"rendered":"Nothing CEO says company&#8217;s mysterious AI-first device is dropping next month"},"content":{"rendered":"<p id=\"speakable-summary\" class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Nothing, the smartphone startup behind the distinctive <a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2025\/07\/08\/nothing-phone-3-review\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Nothing Phone<\/a>, is working on an AI product, but what it is remains unclear.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">On Wednesday, CEO Carl Pei <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/getpeid\/status\/2117991714879410204\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">posted on X<\/a> that the company\u2019s first \u201cAI-native product\u201d ships in December. \u201cIt\u2019s a tool, but one built with the personality and care that have come to define a Nothing product. It has no new screen, and it couldn\u2019t have been an app,\u201d Pei wrote.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Pei has teased an AI-first device <a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2026\/03\/18\/nothing-ceo-carl-pei-says-smartphone-apps-will-disappear-as-ai-agents-take-their-place\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">for some time<\/a> and the company <a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2026\/04\/01\/nothings-ai-devices-plan-reportedly-contains-smart-glasses-and-earbuds\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">has also said<\/a> that it plans to release a pair of AI-linked smart glasses, as well as earbuds with AI integrations.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Pei\u2019s description adds up to a screenless non-app that uses AI? He also calls it a \u201cproductivity tool.\u201d Adding further mystique to the announcement, Pei seems to downplay any link to AI wearables.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThe whole industry is hunting for its iPhone moment: the pendant, the pin, the glasses, the companion, some magical consumer device that makes AI part of everyone\u2019s life,\u201d Pei wrote. \u201cI admire the boldness, but I read this moment differently.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">No firm release date has been announced, but Nothing fans should know soon enough what the company has in store for them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Nothing, the smartphone startup behind the distinctive Nothing Phone, is working on an AI product, but what it&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":675217,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[220,15038,218,219,28398,61,2029,60,51990,80],"class_list":["post-675216","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-ai","tag-ai-hardware","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificialintelligence","tag-hardware","tag-ie","tag-in-brief","tag-ireland","tag-nothing-phone","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/675216","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=675216"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/675216\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/675217"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=675216"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=675216"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=675216"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}