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Samsung is getting its own Siri or maybe something even smarter reuters reported that Samsung is debuting its own artificial intelligent digital assistant in next year's galaxy s a phone and the Wall Street Journal added another layer to the report saying that early prototypes of the sa phone have a button on the side edge that's just for launching the assistant samsung told Reuters that outside developers will be able to create programs to work with the assistant you can also imagine that Samsung would have it work with its other home electronics maybe you'll see this assistant inside a Samsung television or the samsung fridge and who wouldn't want an assistant in the dishwasher right it also looks like Samsung has some extra time to tinker with the assistant on the s8 the company usually unveils its flagship phone during the Mobile World Congress trade show in February but the journal reports that executives are looking to delay the launch maybe until April the company could use the extra time considering it still is looking into what caused the note 7 phone to overheat so how good will this be compared to other AI like the Google assistant Microsoft's Cortana and Amazon's Alexa or Apple's Siri well oddly enough Samsung say I will be series sibling back in October Samsung acquired viv lapse it's an AI startup company co-founded by the folks that created Siri so I guess it'll be like series half sister or brother the assistants name will likely be called bixby because Samsung recently filed the trademark for the name Bixby to be a digital assistant what kind of name is Bixby like the actor Bill Bixby who played dr. Banner aka The Incredible Hulk is Samsung trying to tell us something I guess we better not make it Angry they may have a hot temper I'm Bridget Carey you can stay on top of the biggest tech stories at cnet com / update you