Welcome to another edition of Horizon AI,

Google just announced the launch of its new Pixel 10 series, and while the company had a lot to say about what’s new, the major focus was once again AI features.

The company seems to be rushing ahead to deliver AI-powered smartphones, as Apple stumbles with the technology.

Let’s get into it!

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Here's what's new today in the Horizon AI

• Google Announces the Pixel 10 Lineup, Packed With AI

• Meta Hits Pause on AI Hiring

• AI Tutorial: Edit images with AI online or locally

• AI Tools to check out

• AI Findings/Resources

• The Latest in AI and Tech 💡

AI News

GOOGLE

Google Announces the Pixel 10 Lineup, Packed With AI

Google has announced the Pixel 10, 10 Pro, and 10 Pro XL, devices more packed with AI than ever and featuring new and improved AI-powered tools, along with a new chip capable of ‘running many complex, generative AI experiences on-device.’

Details:

• All Pixel 10 phones come with Google Tensor G5, Google’s most powerful chip yet, designed to run the company’s newest Gemini Nano model.

• A new feature called "Magic Cue" gives you suggestions in real time, all within the app you're already using (Gmail, Calendar, Messages, Screenshots, and others). It can also surface reminders.

• The camera now has a "Camera Coach," an AI-powered assistant that “guides you to take better photos” by giving tips on how to better frame and compose your shot.

• You can also edit photos with the AI-powered “Ask Photos” tool; fix the lighting, change the framing, or remove an object by either speaking to or texting Photos’ AI assistant.

• “Voice Translate” can translate a phone call live in what sounds like your own voice. It works for English, Spanish, German, Japanese, French, Hindi, Italian, Portuguese, Swedish, Russian, and Indonesian.

• Gemini Live can now detect your tone and adjust its response accordingly. It is also getting a new feature called Visual Overlays, which allows it to see what you see through your camera and provide guidance by highlighting objects on your screen.

Those are the standout features, but there are many others, such as the new “Take a Message,” which provides real-time transcripts for missed and declined calls, and “Pixel Journal,” which seems to be Google’s answer to Apple’s Journal app. All of these are part of the company’s strategy to set itself apart from the competition by delivering AI-powered smartphones to consumers.

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META

Meta Hits Pause on AI Hiring

Meta has paused hiring in its AI division after spending millions to bring on more than 50 researchers and engineers, according to the WSJ.

Details:

• It is not clear how long this pause will last, but a Meta spokesman said this was simply “some basic organizational planning: creating a solid structure for our new superintelligence efforts after bringing people on board and undertaking yearly budgeting and planning exercises.”

• The freeze follows a period during which Meta actively poached AI researchers and engineers from other big tech companies, with one of its main victims being OpenAI.

• Mark Zuckerberg had been personally involved in this recruiting, offering huge pay packages to attract the best talent, including signing bonuses as high as $100 million.

Meta now seems to be taking a moment to get its new teams in order, after recently splitting its AI unit, Superintelligence Labs, into four new groups: TBD Labs, run by former Scale AI founder Alexandr Wang, and three other groups focused on research, product integration, and infrastructure, respectively.

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AI Tutorial

Edit images with AI online or locally

The Alibaba Qwen team recently released Qwen-Image-Edit, a 100% open-source model that lets you edit any photo using natural language.

1. To use it online, go to Qwen Chat, sign in, and click on “Image edit” below the text field.

2. Upload your image and describe the change you want to make in natural language.

You can change details in an image, like someone’s outfit, hair color, remove or add objects, restore old photos, modify text in an image and more.

3. Hit Enter and wait a few seconds until your modified image is ready.

4. You can keep making further changes. Just click on the ‘Edit’ option below the generated image and write your new prompt.

5. Once done, download or share your image.

You can also use it locally, which is useful if you need to work offline. You can find the required links in the official blog post.

AI Tools to check out

✨ Argil: Generate videos with ultra-realistic avatars, with the speech or language of your choice.

👀 Macaron: AI that instantly gets you and cooks up mini-apps.

💥 Rustic AI: A next-generation design editor powered by AI.

👉 Xavier AI: AI consultant that creates McKinsey-grade decks.

🤍 Mirror: Deeply understand yourself and every relationship.

AI Findings/Resources

💡 Some interesting Gemma 3 270M fine-tuned use cases

👵 Older Americans turning to AI-powered chatbots for companionship

🤔 I tried 10 AI browsers. Here’s why Perplexity’s Comet is the best so far

👨‍💻 How to vibe code with security in mind

☠️ How poisoned data can trick AI − and how to stop it

The latest in AI and Tech

Harvard dropouts launch AI glasses that never stop listening

Caine Ardayfio and AnhPhu Nguyen, both former Harvard students, are introducing AI-powered smart glasses that continuously listen to, capture, and transcribe conversations, then display real-time relevant information to the wearer. 

Google Search's AI Mode is going global and getting new agentic features

AI Mode in Search will now be available in 180 countries and territories, although it remains limited to English.

The company also announced that it is adding new agentic features to AI Mode, beginning with restaurant bookings (available for Google AI Ultra subscribers).

Anthropic is adding Claude Code to business plans

Anthropic has announced that Claude Code, their advanced AI coding agent, is now included with Team and Enterprise plans. The company also introduced new admin controls, giving organizations the visibility and management tools needed to help employees “work productively with Claude.”

Microsoft’s AI chief raises alarm over ‘AI psychosis’ reports

Microsoft’s AI chief, Mustafa Suleyman, has warned that 'seemingly conscious AI' is keeping him 'awake at night,' as people increasingly perceive AI tools as sentient. This perception can lead to a condition called 'AI psychosis,' where users become overly reliant on chatbots like ChatGPT and convince themselves that something imaginary has become real.

He emphasized, 'There's zero evidence of AI consciousness today.'

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