Allison Johnson

We’re getting a live demo of the Buds Pro 2 and Gemini Live, which led into an awkward introduction for YouTuber Mark Rober.

Google Tensor A1 is inside the new Pixel Buds Pro 2 to handle processing for noise cancellation. The buds are smaller and lighter, too, and they’re the first earbuds to let you access Gemini directly.

There’s a bigger one, and the screens are brighter on both sizes. Lots of new running features, a readiness score, and a new “Morning Brief” from Fitbit. Also, loss of pulse detection. Cue the video that will trigger my health anxiety.

We got a chuckle as one of the generative AI options in the Magic Editor demo produced two normal-looking hot air balloons and a weird one that looked like a cross between a loaf of bread and a basketball. AI, everybody!

Magic Editor comes with some new tools this year, including Auto Frame to correct the angle in a slanted photo while using gen AI to fill in the gaps. Oh, and then you can reimagine the grass on the ground as wildflowers. It’s something!

We’re getting a live demo of Add Me, which lets you add yourself to a group photo by combining two frames. Why did we need Jimmy Butler for this? Why is he wearing the little Google propeller hat? Unclear.

We just saw a side by side of low-light panoramas between the Pixel’s new panorama mode and the iPhone 15 Pro — the sample was labeled onscreen but was referred to as “another camera” in the presentation. Shots fired?

We’re watching the new image generating feature as it creates a a picture of a beach bonfire with a sky full of fireworks from prompts. It runs on a combination of on-device and AI in the cloud. What is a photo, etc., etc.

We’re getting a look at Call Notes on Pixel 9. There’s a transcript of a recorded conversation in the phone app — and it all stays on-device. The demo went fine, but the loud thud behind the stage was slightly concerning?

The Pixel 9 Pro Fold is getting its time in the spotlight, and Google is emphasizing its thinness and the eight-inch inner screen, which the company calls the biggest screen you can buy on a phone. Which, yeah, that seems about right.