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The Verge's Nilay Patel, David Pierce, and Alex Cranz discuss AI tools announced at this weeks Pixel 9 event, Nilay's TV competition, tech regulatory news, and more.

Further reading: theverge.com/2024/8/16/24221721/gemini-google-pixel-apple-app-pricing-tv-shootout-vergecast

00:00 Intro
03:18 Pixel event highlights
10:26 Google Pixel is a Gemini phone
32:07 Nilay's epic TV shootout experience
54:11 Apple's App Store Controversies
01:03:33 Lightning Round

Gemini is taking over Google: theverge.com/2024/8/16/24221721/gemini-google-pixel-apple-app-pricing-tv-shootout-vergecast

AI overshadowed Pixel at the Pixel event: theverge.com/2024/8/14/24220021/google-pixel-9-event-ai-overshadowed

All the AI features coming to Google's Pixel 9 series: theverge.com/24219355/google-pixel-9-ai-features-screenshots-add-me-magic-editor

Google debuts Pixel Studio AI image-making app: theverge.com/2024/8/13/24219655/google-pixel-studio-ai-image-generation-app

Google makes your Pixel screenshots searchable with Recall-like AI feature: theverge.com/2024/8/13/24219641/google-pixel-screenshots-ai-recall

Every time Google dinged Apple during its Pixel 9 launch event: theverge.com/2024/8/13/24219764/google-dinged-apple-pixel-9-launch-event

Google Gemini’s voice chat mode is here: theverge.com/2024/8/13/24219553/google-gemini-live-voice-chat-mode

Using Gemini Live was faster than Google, but also more awkward: theverge.com/2024/8/13/24219736/gemini-live-hands-on-pixel-event

Google Pixel 9 launch event: all the announcements and products: theverge.com/24218825/google-pixel-9-event-announcements-products

Google's Pixel 9 lineup is a Pro show: theverge.com/2024/8/13/24218879/googles-pixel-9-lineup-is-a-pro-show

The Pixel 9 Pro XL showed me the future of AI photography: theverge.com/24219032/pixel-9-pro-xl-hands-on-camera-ai-features-specs-price

Google’s Zoom Enhance camera trick is finally available: theverge.com/2024/8/13/24219750/google-zoom-enhance-pixel-8-9-pro-feature

Inside the competition that named the Sony A95L the best TV of 2024: theverge.com/2024/8/16/24221338/best-tv-2024-sony-a95l-value-electronics-shootout

Patreon adds Apple tax to avoid getting kicked out of the App Store: theverge.com/2024/8/12/24218629/patreon-membership-ios-30-percent-apple-tax

Apple is finally going to open up iPhone tap-to-pay: theverge.com/2024/8/14/24220323/apple-iphone-tap-to-pay-nfc-api

Apple relents and approves Spotify app with EU pricing: theverge.com/2024/8/14/24220105/spotify-iphone-app-pricing-information-eu-update

AltStore PAL drops its annual subscription thanks to a grant from Epic: theverge.com/2024/8/14/24220623/altstore-pal-third-party-app-store-drops-subscription-epic-grant

Epic judge says he’ll ‘tear the barriers down’ on Google’s app store monopoly: theverge.com/2024/8/14/24220491/epic-google-android-app-store-monopoly-remedies-hearing

The FTC’s fake review crackdown begins this fall: theverge.com/2024/8/14/24220536/ftc-fake-review-rule-ai-generated

Ex-Google CEO: AI startups can steal IP, hire lawyers to “clean up the mess”: theverge.com/2024/8/14/24220658/google-eric-schmidt-stanford-talk-ai-startups-openai

Flipboard is going to let you follow fediverse accounts right inside the app: theverge.com/2024/8/13/24218868/flipboard-fediverse-inside-app

Halide’s Process Zero feature captures photos with no AI processing: theverge.com/2024/8/14/24220178/halide-camera-app-process-zero-ai

Realme’s 320W fast charging can fully charge a smartphone in four and a half minutes: theverge.com/2024/8/14/24220225/realme-power-usb-c-supersonic-charge

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