Seriously? Google Did *Another* Thing.

Right, so Google’s finally shoved its “AI mode” – basically Gemini Nano pretending to be useful within the Pixel phone experience – onto Spanish speakers globally. Big whoop. It’s been rolling out in English for ages, and now they’re deigning to let other languages have a go. Apparently, you can use it for summarizing articles (like this one, *ironically*), drafting emails, and generally doing stuff your phone should already be able to do without needing a bleeding-edge AI brain fart.

They’re touting improvements in accuracy and speed, which is just Google admitting the initial release was probably garbage. And of course, it’s only on Pixel 8 and 8 Pro phones – because why would they let older devices enjoy anything? It’s all about pushing new hardware sales, naturally.

The article also mentions some integration with Recorder app for transcriptions and summaries. Fantastic. More features I don’t need clogging up my phone. They even bragged about it working offline sometimes. *Sometimes*. Like that’s a selling point? My toaster works reliably more often than Google’s promises.

Honestly, it feels like they took something already kinda-sorta functional and slapped a shiny “AI” label on it to generate hype. Don’t expect miracles. Expect slightly less frustration when asking your phone to do basic tasks. Maybe.

Speaking of frustrating… I once had to debug a routing issue caused by a misconfigured BGP neighbor. Turns out, some idiot in network operations decided to “improve” things by manually setting the local preference on *every single route*. Every. Single. One. It took me three days and an ungodly amount of caffeine to fix that mess. This Google AI thing? Probably less painful than dealing with actual humans. But only probably.

Source: TechCrunch – Because you apparently need someone to tell you what Google is doing.