This seems to be the year that Google\u2019s AI features are actually starting to add up to something useful. After a week testing the Pixel 10 Pro, my colleagues Allison Johnson and Vee Song say some of the new features are legitimately useful \u2014 at least when they work, which isn\u2019t always as expected. Case in point: the live translate feature could shift their voices from one language into another\u2026 until they broke down and just started screeching.<\/p>\n
On this week\u2019s Vergecast, we\u2019re talking through the Pixel 10 Pro\u2019s AI features, including diving deep into the AI-infused Pro Res Zoom feature that\u2019s built into the camera app now. I\u2019m fascinated by how accurate and un-AI-like it seems to be, up until the point where it sees some text and becomes a jumbled mess.<\/p>\n
After that, Richard Lawler joins us to talk Dish, Intel, and Elon. Dish has officially failed at becoming the United States\u2019 fourth major phone carrier (with an assist from FCC chairman Brendan Carr). Intel is now partially owned by the United States in a questionable scheme to bully the tech industry into supporting its foundry business. And Elon Musk is actually suing Apple over the App Store, with a lawsuit that simultaneously boasts about the popularity of Grok\u2019s App Store downloads and complains that it isn\u2019t doing well enough.<\/p>\n
Finally, it\u2019s time for the Thunder Round. We discuss KPop Demon Hunters\u2019 success at Netflix, YouTube\u2019s messy new \u201cAI\u201d experiment, Google\u2019s new Android verification requirement for developers, Taco Bell\u2019s AI drive-through fiasco, and what can only be described as an Amazon locker on wheels.<\/p>\n
If you want to read more about the stories we discussed, check out the links below.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"This seems to be the year that Google\u2019s AI features are actually starting to add up to something…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":118495,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[2294,74,2295],"class_list":["post-118494","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-technology","tag-podcasts","tag-technology","tag-vergecast"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118494","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=118494"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118494\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/118495"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=118494"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=118494"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=118494"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}