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Google’s Pixel 10 Event: AI Steps Into the Spotlight

At the Made by Google 2025 event this week, Google unveiled its Pixel 10 lineup. While the phones look familiar, the big story is under the hood: Google is betting on AI-first mobile computing, powered by its new Tensor G5 chip and a wave of software upgrades.

3 highlights to know:

1️⃣ AI runs on-device now: Google’s Tensor G5 chip—its first built with TSMC—speeds up on-device AI by 60% compared to the previous chip version. Tasks like photo editing, translation, and summarization happen faster, more privately, and without constant cloud calls.

2️⃣ Smarter tools: The phones ship with a suite of new AI-powered features.

• Magic Cue surfaces real-time, context-aware suggestions (e.g. showing an Airbnb listing mid-chat).

• AI Camera Coach helps you compose better photos and auto-sharpens zoomed shots.

• New journaling and translation apps preview Google’s vision of the phone as an always-on assistant.

3️⃣ AI ties hardware and accessories together: Google also launched Pixelsnap magnetic chargers and accessories designed to integrate seamlessly with its AI ecosystem—signaling a broader "AI + hardware" lock-in strategy.

Grok Chats Accidentally Go Public

Hundreds of thousands of private conversations between Elon Musk’s xAI chatbot Grok and its users are now searchable on Google. 

How it happened: 

• Grok chat’s sharing feature was designed so users could email or post their conversations on social media. But a report from Forbes revealed that whenever a user hit “share,” the app generated a unique URL. 

• Search engines like Google, Bing, and DuckDuckGo indexed those URLs. 

• Now, anyone can find these chats with a simple search. Explicit exchanges, illegal queries, and disturbing prompts—like drug recipes and assassination plans—are sitting in Google’s open index.

Not just Grok: This isn’t an isolated incident. OpenAI and Meta faced similar leaks in recent months when search engines picked up shared chat links from ChatGPT and Meta AI. Back then, Grok even mocked competitors, claiming to “prioritize privacy” and boasting that it had “no such sharing feature.” 😬

Halo’s Always-On AI Glasses Push Privacy Boundaries

This week, two Harvard dropouts unveiled the Halo X: $249 smart glasses powered by Google Gemini and Perplexity AI that listen to, record, and transcribe every conversation around you. The device is designed to blend in like normal eyewear, without a signup light or “recording” indicator.

How it works:

• The glasses capture and transcribe every word you hear.

• AI uses that info to feed instant prompts, facts, or definitions right into your display.

• The glasses can answer questions on the fly and even suggest what to say next. 

The privacy problem: Unlike Meta’s Ray-Bans, Halo X doesn’t warn anyone when it’s recording. Privacy experts are sounding alarms about the normalization of covert recording, warning that it could erode expectations of private conversations. US laws add friction, too. In two-party consent states, users are legally required to inform everyone they’re recording.

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