Gemini is taking over Google

At Google’s gadget motorboat this week, it took astir fractional an hr earlier Google really talked astir its caller gadgets. There’s a batch to beryllium excited astir wrong the caller Pixel 9 lineup and the Pixel Watch 3, but Google’s lawsuit made its existent priorities clear. AI matters much to Google than Pixel, much than Android, much than conscionable astir anything.

On this occurrence of The Vergecast, we speech astir all of Google’s AI announcements, and what they mightiness mean for however you usage your devices going forward. Is this a paradigm shift? Since truthful overmuch of Google’s absorption is connected the Pixel’s camera, we besides speech astir the ongoing “what is simply a photo” apocalypse, and whether what we’re capturing is adjacent photos anymore.

After that, Nilay tells america astir his adventures judging the TV Shootout, which included 2 days of squinting astatine incredibly awesome displays trying to fig retired which 1 is genuinely the best. He learned a batch astir however to look astatine a screen, and astir the authorities of the creation successful TV tech, and helium has tons to share.

Next we tally down a clump of the week’s regulatory news, arsenic Apple continues to prime unusual fights with developers and the Epic / Google justice continues to endanger to tear the institution apart. It’s singular however overmuch the winds person shifted successful the Big Tech regularisation fight, and it seems alteration is lone going to travel faster now.

If you privation to cognize much astir everything we sermon successful this episode, present are immoderate links to get you started, opening with Google:

And connected the TV Shootout:

And connected app store regulation:

And successful the lightning round: