Samsung Wallet just got a lot more useful for Galaxy owners in Malaysia. The company has teamed up with Maybank to bring the country’s first Samsung Wallet QR Payment experience, and it’s rolling out starting this week.

What’s changing for Galaxy users

Through a Collaboration Agreement signed with Maybank, Samsung is folding the bank’s MAE Scan & Pay functionality directly into Samsung Wallet.

It means eligible Galaxy users won’t need to jump into a separate banking app just to scan a QR code at checkout; a swipe within Samsung Wallet is enough to pull up the scanner and complete a transaction.

Regional reach and rewards baked in

The integration isn’t limited to Malaysia either. Since it runs through Maybank’s MAE ecosystem, users can scan and pay across Singapore, Thailand, Indonesia, and Cambodia as well, which is a nice bonus for anyone who travels around Southeast Asia often.

Every transaction also earns Samsung Reward points, redeemable for products and vouchers via the Samsung Members app.

Rollout timeline and launch incentives

The native QR payments feature is already arriving from July 21, 2026, through the latest Samsung Wallet and software update.

Samsung is also running a promotional campaign from July 28 to October 30, offering up to RM500,000 in rewards, including RM5 for activating QR Payment and up to RM15 in cashback or vouchers on spending.

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Samsung has officially signed a strategic partnership agreement (SPA) with the Claude maker Anthropic to jointly build new AI-driven businesses in South Korea, marking one of the most significant enterprise AI moves from the Samsung camp this year.

Samsung SDS is deepening its ties with Anthropic

The agreement was signed on July 24 at an AI summit hosted at The Midway in San Francisco. Samsung SDS CEO Lee Jun-hee and Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei put pen to paper, with South Korean President Lee Jae-myung and Samsung Electronics Chairman Jay Y. Lee present at the ceremony, a clear signal of how much weight this deal carries.

The collaboration spans three fronts: joint marketing and proof-of-concept support for new AX (AI transformation) businesses targeting Korean firms, a dedicated training program to cultivate “applied AI engineers” skilled in deploying Claude for enterprise use, and expanded Claude support across Samsung’s affiliates. Notably, Claude Enterprise is already rolling out to 20 Samsung Group affiliates and roughly 70,000 employees.

CEO Lee called it a foundation for jointly leading the growth of the Korean AI market by pairing Anthropic’s technology with Samsung SDS’s industry expertise.

Samsung is doubling down on its HBM memory and AI semiconductor ambitions, and this time, Broadcom is along for the ride in a massive way.

The two companies have signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) to deepen their partnership across memory and foundry technologies, a deal expected to be worth over $200 billion over the next five years through 2030.

The announcement came at the AI Summit in San Francisco, with Samsung’s foundry chief Jinman Han and Broadcom CEO Hock Tan leading the discussions alongside senior executives and Korean government representatives.

Memory and HBM take center stage

Samsung will supply its industry-leading memory solutions, including High Bandwidth Memory (HBM), to power Broadcom’s next-generation AI accelerators.

Foundry collaboration eyes 2nm and beyond

Samsung will manufacture Broadcom’s products, including its Wireless Broadband Communications solutions, on its 2nm and below process nodes.

The partnership also extends into advanced packaging, with 2.3D and 2.5D integration built on that same 2nm foundation, aimed at squeezing out more performance and efficiency for AI and networking chips.

Samsung’s DS Division vice chairman Young Hyun Jun called AI a driver of “unprecedented demand” for integrated semiconductor tech.

Broadcom’s Charlie Kawwas emphasized how closely memory, foundry, and connectivity now need to work together.

With capabilities spanning memory, logic, foundry, and packaging, Samsung looks well-positioned to keep expanding its footprint in the AI infrastructure race.

Qualcomm’s upcoming Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 6 Pro is set to beat the Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 on the efficiency front, and this leap is driven by TSMC’s 2nm chip manufacturing process.

That said, flagship Android phones running the Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 6 Pro should feel noticeably snappier while lasting longer on a single charge, a combination that’s always welcome.

Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 6 Pro improves efficiency

Weibo leaker Digital Chat Station reported that the Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 6 Pro is already being tested on engineering samples. The tipster has gotten hands-on time with the chip and shared exactly how much better it performs.

Under heavy load, like extended gaming sessions, the Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 6 Pro draws noticeably less power than its predecessor. That gap widens further during lighter, everyday tasks, where the new chip sips power far more conservatively.

The Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 was built on TSMC’s 3nm node, while the Gen 6 Pro moves to TSMC’s 2nm N2P process, a refined version of the standard 2nm node.

Qualcomm is also restructuring the CPU

Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 6 Pro reportedly adopts a 2+3+3 setup with three efficiency cores, paired with a beefed-up Adreno 850 GPU and 16MB of L2 cache. Peak clocks could touch 5GHz, making this one of the more ambitious jumps Qualcomm has attempted.

Every year usually brings modest gains, but this generation has something extra working in its favor. In my opinion, though, this is shaping up to be one of the more significant leaps Snapdragon has delivered in years.

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Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 8 introduces a user experience optimized for YouTube. You may have been wondering how the new foldable phone handles YouTube video display on its new ratios of the cover screen and main screen, well, we now have a demo.

During its teaser streaks, Samsung teased re-shaped experiences for popular apps, which included YouTube as well. With a giant user base, YouTube leads the streaming segment around the world, and its experience matters.

YouTube experience on Galaxy Z Fold 8

Tech YouTuber @AdamJMatlock posted a Galaxy Z Fold 8 hands-on video on X, which showcases the YouTube video streaming experience.

Samsung’s Galaxy Z Fold 8 comes with a 4:3 main display that is 7.6 inches large and features QXGA+ resolution. Additional specs of the cover screen include Dynamic AMOLED 2X (1,848 x 2,448), 403ppi density.

When folded, the foldable phone offers a 10:16 cover screen. The panel is 5.5 inches large and features WUXGA+ resolution, which Samsung details as Dynamic AMOLED 2X (1,248 x 1,972); pixel density is 428ppi.

Samsung carefully crafted One UI 9 for the re-shaped form factor. The Galaxy Z Fold 8 is built differently than the previous foldable phones. It has a wide cover screen, which offers a mini-tablet experience when unfolded.

Watch the video below, which shows a YouTube video experience on the cover screen (portrait and landscape) and unfolded. In its unfolded state, the interface looks quite similar to what YouTube offers on its desktop site.

This is a look at how YouTube works on the new Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 8! Lots of people asked about this. pic.twitter.com/4Z8Yrey5aq

— TechOdyssey (@AdamJMatlock) July 23, 2026