AI has been in phones for ages. What’s new is the following:

• It has become fashionable to market things as AI
• New phones can run more AI locally now, in the past almost everything had to be sent to the cloud first
• LLMs enable much better answers if you ask a voice assistant a question, or if you want a summary of anything

If that warrants branding everything as AI I’ll leave up to you

Dumb question, why would anyone put electrical outlets in the ceiling?

I don’t think this will ever be used to recycle micro plastics. Just grinding up plastic is way more economical.