Author: Arlin Fabaliña

Samsung launched the Samsung Galaxy Card in the U.S. today. It’s the company’s first co-branded credit card for American consumers, and the whole pitch is tied tightly to Galaxy devices, Samsung services, and Samsung Wallet, which is Samsung’s digital wallet.

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Samsung says the card gives you 5% cashback on Samsung purchases, 3% on transactions made through Samsung Wallet, 2% on select streaming services, and 1% on everything else. There’s also a $200 statement credit if you spend $2,000 in the first 90 days. No annual fee, either, according to Samsung.

Samsung is putting its own ecosystem front and center here, so if you already spend money on Galaxy phones, tablets, wearables, or accessories on a regular basis, this looks like a card that’s probably worth picking up.

The more interesting part is Samsung Wallet. Samsung says you’ll be able to apply for the Samsung Galaxy Card, manage it, and use it directly on Galaxy devices, and that 3% rate on Samsung Wallet transactions gives people a real reason to choose Samsung’s payment system over competing options. Barclays is issuing the Samsung Galaxy Card on the Visa network, Samsung says, which should let the company scale fast without having to build the banking infrastructure on its own.

This is Samsung’s answer to Apple Card, though right now it comes off more like a loyalty perk than a true mass-market card, especially since APR details , privacy, and long-term competitiveness are still unclear. Samsung says you can get the Samsung Galaxy Card through Samsung Wallet on supported Galaxy devices in the U.S.

Public health heatwave advice for 2025 has been updated, and the most useful parts are the cheap, practical ones. For one family of five, the biggest change came from simple habits: drinking water before anyone felt thirsty, wearing light-colored, loose, breathable cotton clothes, keeping out direct sun by closing curtains or blinds, using the oven less, getting the most out of fans, and planning anything outdoors outside the 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. peak. Not gadgets. Not expensive home upgrades.

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The backdrop here is hard to ignore. Global temperature records put 2025 as the third warmest year, behind 2024 and 2023, and heat records from 2022 to 2025 show 41 countries either tied or broke national highs. Heat can turn dangerous fast, leading to dehydration, heat exhaustion, or heatstroke, especially for people who are active, spending time outside, looking after children or older relatives, or living with chronic conditions.

If you’re bracing for another brutal summer, this update is worth reading. Public health agencies keep warning about a risk people miss all the time: overheating at home. A lot of heat-related deaths happen in private homes that don’t have enough cooling, especially during stretches of hot nights when buildings never really shed the heat. Early prevention gives you the best chance of staying safe.

You can get guidance from public health agencies, and if your home gets too hot, go somewhere cooler: a cooling center, a library, a shopping mall, or another air-conditioned building.

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Samsung Health, the health app tied to Galaxy devices, appears to be showing users a new consent notice. Reports out of the US and Europe say the notice could force people to agree to health-data training and modeling if they want to keep core account features. Those same reports say that if a user refuses, Samsung account syncing may stop, and records that were already synced could even be wiped.

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The reported policy covers a long list of sensitive data: body measurements, nutrition, step counts, workouts, sleep, medication, diagnoses, test results, treatment history, and menstrual tracking. For a lot of people, that’s months or years of information pulled from Galaxy phones , Galaxy watches, and connected services. Samsung says the change would help improve Samsung Health, predictive health algorithms, and other smart features. The reports also say some of that data may be reviewed by human staff.

If you rely on Samsung Health to store personal records, keep an eye on this. Critics argue that consent isn’t really voluntary if saying no means losing syncing, features, or access to your history. In Europe, some observers also see a possible GDPR problem, since withdrawing consent isn’t supposed to come with a penalty .

Samsung Health runs across Galaxy phones, Galaxy watches, and connected services, and that’s where the reported prompt seems to be appearing. According to the reports, Samsung hadn’t given a detailed public response. It’s also still not clear whether this change is rolling out globally or only in certain markets ahead of Samsung’s July 22 Unpacked event and the expected Galaxy Watch 9.

Google has rolled out Nano Banana 2 Lite, and Google says it can generate 1K images in about four seconds for roughly $0.034 per 1,000 images starting June 30. The pitch here is pretty clear: this model is aimed less at one-off art experiments and more at the kind of image work businesses need every day. Think rapid prototyping, ad variations, e-commerce listings, internal presentations, and that near-real-time, sketchbook-style back-and-forth when you’re trying ideas quickly.

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Google is also making its lineup more defined. Nano Banana 2 Lite is the one you use when speed, scale, and lower-fidelity output matter most. Nano Banana Pro still makes more sense for final polish. Even so, Google says Nano Banana 2 Lite outperforms Nano Banana Pro on some text-to-image benchmarks, helped by stronger world knowledge and better character consistency at 1K.

If you need a lot of visuals, fast, this looks like an easy one to pick up. There is a catch, though: some analysts argue that image generation this cheap could make spam and misleading visuals even easier to produce, while areas like education, research, and industrial design still haven’t been tested as deeply. According to Google, Nano Banana 2 Lite will be available starting June 30 in the Gemini app, Google Ads, Google Photos, and developer APIs. Google also says Adobe plans to support it in Adobe Firefly, and Manus AI is already using it for slide decks and web design.

As of June 22, 2026, OpenAI and Getty Images have signed a multi-year agreement to bring Getty Images’ licensed photos and other visual material into ChatGPT’s search and discovery results. Getty Images says the deal is for display only, and doesn’t cover model training.

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So what does that mean in actual use? ChatGPT users may start seeing Getty Images photos inside ChatGPT, with attribution attached. Beyond that, a lot is still unclear. Neither OpenAI nor Getty Images has said how often those images will appear, whether they’ll come with licensing links or click-through options, how attribution will look in different parts of ChatGPT, or how much money is attached to the agreement.

Getty Images’ stock reportedly jumped by as much as 200% in pre-market trading on June 22, 2026. That’s a huge market response. It also points to a real change in where Getty Images is heading.

That shift stands out because Getty Images had taken a harder line with image-generation companies before, including its 2023 lawsuit against Stability AI. Later, though, the company moved further into licensing deals, including a similar agreement with Perplexity in October 2025.

If you use ChatGPT for news, entertainment, travel, or general reference searches, this is one to watch. Bringing in licensed visuals could make answers feel more dependable, and it may ease some of the copyright concerns that usually come with AI-generated or loosely sourced imagery.

There are still gaps in what’s been disclosed. Getty Images and OpenAI haven’t said how photographers and other contributors will be paid, or whether creators will get any way to opt out.

As OpenAI starts rolling the feature out, Getty Images content will show up inside ChatGPT’s search and discovery responses.

Google has begun rolling out memory for Gemini Live in English in the United States, starting in June 2026. In plain terms, Google’s voice assistant no longer has to treat every conversation like a fresh start. It can remember earlier chats and refer back to them later.

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Google says Gemini Live can also pull from past conversations and from certain Connected Apps, including YouTube and Google Workspace, when it puts together a reply. So if you’ve mentioned that you’re vegetarian, that a family birthday is coming up, or shared other personal preferences, Gemini Live may use that context the next time you talk to it. The idea is to make follow-up conversations feel less mechanical and bring the voice experience closer to Gemini’s text chat, where memory has already been around for more than a year.

If you use Gemini a lot, this is the kind of update you’ll probably want. It ties into Google’s Personal Intelligence push, which the company highlighted at Google I/O 2026, and it gives Gemini Live a better shot at keeping up with rivals like ChatGPT’s voice mode.

Early reports, though, suggest the memory feature can be uneven. Sometimes the recall works, sometimes it doesn’t. And for plenty of people, the bigger issue will be privacy: whether they’re comfortable with Google holding onto personal details over time.

The feature is live now in English in the United States as part of the rollout Google started in June 2026. It isn’t landing for everyone at once, so some Android users may still see “coming soon” in Settings for the time being.

Google hasn’t said when more languages or countries will get it. The company also says that if you already have Personal Intelligence turned on, Gemini Live memory should switch on automatically.

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