Week in Review: The top stories in phones, AI, fitness, and more

Can AI plan your workouts? Plus more from our Get Fit for '25 week
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Welcome to the Week in Review
Welcome
A new year means a new start. New technology – and plenty of it – will be coming at CES next week, but before that there’s time to work on a new you. And we’ve got just the thing to help you out on that front, in the form of our Get Fit for '25 series.
 
Full disclosure: I have no intention at all of getting fit for 2025. In fact, I’ve gone the other direction, buying myself a Steam Deck so I can spend even more time slouched on the couch. But I’m not a role model, and I fully support anyone who uses the changing of the year as an impetus to get themselves in shape. Just so long as they don’t expect me to join them.
 
I’m constantly in awe of our Senior Fitness and Wearables Editor Matt Evans and Senior Fitness and Wearables Writer Stephen Warwick, each of whom can make me feel lazy just by being in the same room. They’ve teamed up to write a great article about how they used AI to design the ideal workout, and – spoiler alert – it didn’t all go as planned.
 
One of my hopes for 2025 is that AI improves when it comes to answering those kinds of basic queries, where it’s still too often subject to hallucinations. Maybe it’s something we should speak to Sam Altman about. Altman, who runs ChatGPT owner OpenAI, this week revealed the AI improvements he’s most often asked about, and interestingly ‘be more accurate’ is not on the list. You can find out what did make the list below.
 
We’ll be back next week with a special CES-flavored edition of the Week in Review, packed with all of the exciting things we’ve seen from the Vegas showfloor. Whether any of the TechRadar team will be feeling any fitter after that is a different story.
 
Until then,
 
Marc McLaren, Global Editor-in-Chief
The week in Fitness
We put AI-designed workouts to the test
Can AI plan a proper set of workouts? (Future)
It's Get Fit week at TechRadar, and the site is awash with advice and guides to help you start the year right and hit your fitness goals. This year you'll be able to get a helping hand from AI – and we've been testing Gemini and ChatGPT's workout-planning abilities.
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The week in AI
Here's what users want from OpenAI in 2025
OpenAI boss Sam Altman (Photosince / Shutterstock)
As a new year begins, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has shared the most popular requests for ChatGPT and Sora upgrades coming in from users – and if his company manages to deliver on all of them it's going to be another exciting year of AI improvements.
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The week in Phones
More AI is heading to the Galaxy S25
The Samsung Galaxy S24 (Future)
We could be just days away from the launch of the Samsung Galaxy S25 series, and according to a new rumor Samsung has plenty of AI-related upgrades in the pipeline for its new phones – although details of what these are don’t yet appear to have leaked.
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The best after-Christmas deals, chosen by TechRadar's experts
The week in computing
The first Microsoft Copilot+ mini PC has arrived
The Asus NUC 14 Pro AI (Asus)
Microsoft is pushing a new category of computer with special AI capabilities, the Copilot+ PC – and although we've only seen Copilot+ laptops up to this point, we now have our first mini PC that meets the standard, with its very own built-in Copilot button.
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The week in entertainment
The best new movies and shows to stream this weekend
There's plenty more to watch this weekend (Amazon / Netflix / WBD)
2025 is off to a hot start on the world’s best streaming services, and from the return of Wallace and Gromit in their latest feature film, to the debuts of multiple new TV shows, there’s plenty to keep you entertained over this coming weekend.
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