Google’s Pixel 10 lineup goes big on AI

Good morning, AI enthusiasts. While Apple keeps pushing back Siri’s AI makeover by years, Google just dropped a phone with over 20 AI features that truly work… Today.

With features like conversational photo editing (possibly nano-banana?), proactive AI suggestions, and Gemini Live upgrades, Google’s recent Pixel lineup is making Apple’s AI struggles much more glaring within the smartphone wars.

In today’s AI rundown:

• Recent Google Pixel lineup goes big on AI

• NASA, IBM launch AI to decode the sun

• Use GPT-5 in Microsoft 365 to research emails

• Gemini expands to the house with Nest

• 4 recent AI tools, community workflows, and more

LATEST DEVELOPMENTS

GOOGLE

📱 Recent Google Pixel lineup goes big on AI

The Rundown: Google just unveiled the Pixel 10 lineup at its star-studded ‘Made by Google‘ event, powered by a brand new Tensor G5 chip and full of 20+ AI features, including advanced photo editing, ‘Magic Cue’ suggestions, live translations, and more.

The main points:

• A brand new ‘Visual Guidance’ upgrade allows Gemini Live to provide real-time visual cues on a user’s phone screen.

• The Pixel 10 family gains conversational photo editing capabilities via natural language prompts, rumored to be the hyped nano-banana model.

• Magic Cue proactively surfaces context across apps like Gmail, Calendar, and Messages, suggesting replies with info like flight details or restaurant bookings.

• Voice Translate transforms phone calls in real time across 10 languages, preserving the speaker’s actual voice relatively than robotic translations.

• Google’s recent Tensor G5 chip delivers 60% faster AI processing with a 4B parameter Gemini Nano model running entirely on-device for privacy.

• Other features include an AI-powered Pixel Journal app, NotebookLM integration, AI photography tools, and more.

• The lineup features three different variations (Pixel 10, Pixel 10 Pro, and Pixel 10 Pro XL), ranging from $799-$1199.

Why it matters: It’s hard to overstate the drastic difference in AI features now available in Google’s lineup in comparison with Apple. Google’s Rick Osterloh even seemingly took a shot on the rival, noting “plenty of broken guarantees” with AI in phones. Google continues to ship, making Apple’s issues a good greater setback within the smartphone wars.

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🚀 Master AI coding workflows

The Rundown: Warp is the benchmark-leading AI coding agent, giving developers access to the perfect models from GPT-5 to Opus 4.1, multi function fast native app. The platform recently launched Warp University, a library of step-by-step tutorials for real developer workflows in Warp.

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• End-to-end workflows to plan, construct, debug, and ship with AI agents

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NASA

🌞 NASA, IBM launch AI model to decode the sun

The Rundown: NASA and IBM just released Surya, a brand new AI foundation model trained on nine years of solar observations that predicts solar flares and space weather events with extreme accuracy.

The main points:

• Surya analyzed tens of millions of images from NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory, learning to forecast solar eruptions and beating existing predictions by 16%.

• Surya tracks every thing from emerging sunspots to solar wind speeds, helping protect satellites, power grids, and astronauts from dangerous radiation bursts.

• The system processes multiple wavelengths concurrently, spotting small changes that human analysts miss across the Sun’s shifting surface.

• NASA open-sourced the model on HuggingFace, letting researchers tap into its solar pattern recognition for their very own space weather projects.

Why it matters: Solar storms cause chaos to tech across the globe. With business space traffic exploding and infrastructure increasingly vulnerable, having an AI that may read and predict solar events could save billions in damaged equipment and lost services, while also increasing our understanding of the Sun in the method.

AI TRAINING

📧 Use GPT-5 in Microsoft 365 to research emails

The Rundown: On this tutorial, you’ll learn easy methods to leverage GPT-5 through Microsoft Copilot to routinely search your email history, analyze complex threads, and generate personalized replies that completely match your writing style.

Step-by-step:

1. Open Microsoft Edge and click on the Copilot ribbon (top right) – register together with your Microsoft account free of charge access

2. Enable “Smart” mode in Copilot to attach your Outlook data (Enterprise users need admin approval for Microsoft Graph access)

3. Prompt: “Summarize my most up-to-date 10 emails with bullet points on what needs replies today, then draft responses in my usual tone”

4. GPT-5 analyzes your entire email history, extracting key decisions, recent developments, and your typical communication patterns

5. Review the AI-generated reply and refine with prompts like “Make this more formal” or “Add timeline details”

Pro tip: Create context-aware templates by prompting “Analyze my email patterns with executives vs. team members, then draft this using my appropriate tone for a [C-level/peer/direct report]” for perfectly calibrated responses.

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GOOGLE

🏡 Gemini expands to the house with Nest

The Rundown: Google just announced that the corporate is replacing its AI Assistant with Gemini across its Nest home speaker and display lines this fall, bringing advanced conversational AI, Gemini Live, and multi-device awareness to smart home control.

The main points:

• Gemini for Home understands complex commands and can even handle multiple requests in a single sentence without requiring rigid voice commands.

• The system will use Gemini Live for natural conversations, with use cases like providing dinner ideas based on fridge contents or troubleshooting appliances.

• Google is planning each free and paid tiers with early access starting through a preview program in October before a broader rollout.

Why it matters: Between Amazon’s AI revamp of Alexa, Samsung’s AI appliance ecosystem, Apple’s rumored devices and Google, the race to bring AI into the house is getting more competitive than ever — and while it still seems like we’re only within the early stages of AI hardware actually being useful, the upgrades are coming fast.

QUICK HITS

🛠️ Trending AI Tools

• 🐳 DeepSeek V3.1 – Model update with improved intelligence, context window

• 💬 Chat Mode – Construct text-only conversational agents with ElevenLabs

• 🎥 Wonda – Wondercraft’s AI agent for video and audio content creation

• 🗣️ April – Speak together with your inbox and calendar using AI

📰 All the pieces else in AI today

Sam Altman spoke on GPT-6 finally week’s dinner, saying the discharge will likely be focused on memory, with the model arriving quicker than the time between GPT-4 and 5.

Microsoft and the National Football League expanded their partnership to integrate AI across the game in areas like officiating, scouting, operations, and fan experience.

AnhPhu Nguyen and Caine Ardayfio launched Halo, a brand new entry into the AI smartglasses category, with always-on listening.

Google teased a brand new Gemini-powered health coach coming to Fitbit, in a position to provide personalized fitness, sleep, and wellness advice customized to users’ data.

Anthropic rolled out its Claude Code agentic coding tool to Enterprise and Team plans, featuring recent admin control for managing spend, policy settings, and more.

MIT’s NANDA initiative found that just 5% of enterprise AI deployments are driving revenue, with learning gaps and flawed integrations holding back the tech.

OpenAI’s Sebastien Bubeck claimed that GPT-5-pro is in a position to ‘prove recent interesting mathematics’, using the model to finish an open complex problem.

COMMUNITY

🤝 Community AI workflows

Every newsletter, we showcase how a reader is using AI to work smarter, save time, or make life easier.

Today’s workflow comes from reader Nick E. in Kansas City, KS:

“I built a custom GPT that’s principally my sales brain with an attitude. Before AI, writing prospecting emails meant wasting an hour wrestling with a blinking cursor and ending up with something that seemed like corporate oatmeal. Now, in minutes, this thing cranks out sharp, direct scripts that truly get replies. It’s like having a ruthless sales coach trapped in my laptop except it doesn’t bill me by the hour, roll its eyes, or suggest I circle back another time.”

How are you using AI in your work? Tell us here.

🎓 Highlights: News, Guides & Events

• Read our previous newsletter: Big Tech clashes on AI consciousness 

• Today’s AI tool guide: Use GPT-5 in Microsoft 365

• Watch our last live workshop: Mastering AI agents for customer support

See you soon,

Rowan, Joey, Zach, Shubham, and Jennifer — the humans behind The Rundown