Allison Johnson

“Everything we’ve shown you is launching in the next few weeks.” Osterloh is wrapping things up and tells us that Project Astra is going to live in Gemini Live. Apps will integrate with Gemini Live, too, and he tells us to “stay tuned.”

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.