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The future of AI hardware isn’t one device — it’s an entire ecosystem

Google says, ‘The future will be a very diverse set of accessories…’

Victoria Song
Honor’s Magic V5 is the thinnest foldable yet, but that’s not why it matters

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Thin is in, but the big battery is the V5’s real magic trick.

Dominic Preston
Google Pixel 10 Pro and 10 Pro XL review: AI, Qi2, and a spec bump too

Magic Cue mostly lives up to its name.

Allison Johnson
Dominic Preston
Dominic Preston
The Fallon effect.

You hold one deranged late night talk show tech event hosted by Jimmy Fallon, and all of a sudden that’s all anyone wants you to do, whether you’re launching a new phone or a Duolingo knock-off.

Subsy:

“I’m surprised this wasn’t announced by Jimmy Fallon”

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Emma Roth
Emma Roth
Google is upgrading the Gemini app’s AI image editor.

Google says the Gemini app is better at performing more advanced image editing requests, such as blending two photos, performing multiple edits on the same image, combining different designs, or giving you an outfit change while preserving your appearance.

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Richard Lawler
Richard Lawler
Is YouTube’s Shorts experiment using AI or just upscaling?

As reported by the BBC and Rhett Shull, some creators have noticed their YouTube Shorts videos look... enhanced, possibly by AI.

YouTube’s Rene Ritchie says the experiment is “using the kind of machine learning you experience with computational photography on smartphones,” not generative AI. What do you call it?

AI doesn’t belong in journaling

The ‘inconvenience’ of a blank page is the entire point.

Victoria Song