As expected in these times, the Galaxy Unpacked from yesterday, in which Samsung has presented the new Galaxy S26 and the Galaxy Buds 4was an event in which AI had as much prominence as hardware.
TM Rohco-CEO of Samsung, called the S26 a ‘agent phone’ at the beginning of the event and from there they were revealed a dozen new AI features; some completely new and other existing capabilities improved. These are all the AI news that Samsung will integrate into its ecosystem of products, starting with the Galaxy S26:
Now Nudge
Now Nudge It is an AI agent that runs in the background. Its goal is to handle a context larger than what is being displayed on the screen at a given time, allowing different apps to ‘talk’ to each other.
For example, if a friend texts you about plans for the afternoon, Galaxy AI reviews your calendar, detects potential conflicting commitments, and shows a pop-up notice with the relevant information right there in the conversation. You don’t even need to switch apps; everything happens automatically.
Now Brief
Now Brief apply AI to your personalized morning briefings. It first analyzes several apps on your phone to gather all the events you have planned for the day and then displays a structured report with reminders, reservations, trip updates and everything that, otherwise, you would have to collect by hand by consulting several different apps.
Circle to search
Circle to Search receives a major improvement by allowing surround several elements at once to start a search, instead of just one. For example, you can circle a person’s clothing set in a photo and it will show you where you can buy each of the items.
Photo Assist
Photo Assist This is Samsung’s way of integrating AI into its app Gallery and allows edit photos by writing instructions. You can change clothes, restore missing parts of an object, turn night into day, and more similar to other in-app AI image editors.
Creative Studio
Creative Studio is another AI feature for the Gallery app that allows change the style of your photos. For example, you can turn a selfie into an oil painting or an anime character. Again, this is not something exclusive to Samsung devices, as this can be done with almost any AI.
Document scanner
This is one of the most underrated features of Samsung’s AI suite. Convert messy document scans into a clean PDF automatically. AI corrects distortions, creases and fingers that sneak into multi-image scans. Anyone who has tried to scan a crumpled receipt knows how useful something like that can be.
Bixby
Samsung’s personal assistant receives its biggest revamp in quite some time. Now, With Bixby you can manage device control using natural languagemeaning you can adjust settings simply by describing what you want, without having to know exactly where the option is in the menus. Samsung has also confirmed the integration of Gemini 3 of Google and of Perplexityallowing you to choose between different AI models to manage tasks.
agentic phone
The general layer of agentic AI is what articulates everything. You can allow multiple AI agents to communicate with each other and, for example, ask Perplexity to research the best restaurants in your area. You’ll do the search and then pass that information to Gemini to make a reservation.
Privacy
In terms of privacy, AI call filter identifies and summarizes calls from unknown numbers, while Privacy alerts Shows real-time notifications when apps access your data suspiciously.
More AI in the camera
The camera also receives AI improvements. Nightography It can now work with video, which should result in less grainy nighttime recordings. He ISP (Image Signal Processor) with AI, which previously only processed shots from the rear camera, now also runs on front cameraso the same level of detail and natural skin tones you’d get with the main lens apply to selfies and video calls.
ProScaler It rescales content directly on the screen, allowing you to watch videos at lower resolutions without losing sharpness. This can be useful for saving data, because you won’t have to play 4K videos for them to look good.