Will was the Phones Editor at Android Police from August 2022 to May 2025, which usually meant his desk was covered in a dozen different smartphones at any given time. Prior to that, he was a news ...

A new report explains what happened to the “Pixie” assistant. The project was reportedly “split in two.” Pixie became the Pixel Screenshots app and additional features for Gemini. Back in December ...

Taylor worked with AP from 2018 to 2025, most recently as Google Editor. Way back in late 2023, we heard that Google was working on a new digital assistant that was evidently planned to debut on the ...

Companies work on many products that sometimes never see the light of day. In Google’s case, it came in the form of Pixie, a digital assistant for the company’s Pixel phones. ‘Pixie’ ultimately did ...

Pixie first came to light in December. The Information revealed the existence of an AI assistant that will be exclusive to Google’s Pixel devices. There are still many unknowns about how Pixie will ...

With Gemini now in the wild, Google’s next task is to integrate the foundational model into its various products. A new report today describes hardware efforts like a “Pixie” AI assistant that could ...

Google has invested heavily in artificial intelligence research over the past decade, and it paid off when researchers developed transformer algorithms in 2017—then it did nothing with it.