A leaked roadmap in late 2022 offered insight into Google's hardware plans, and a credible Pixel 9 rumor this week has corroborated some of what we saw there. Artificial intelligence wasn't part of that Google roadmap, but with the breakneck development speed of things like Gemini and Galaxy AI lately, there was no predicting what was to come in this arena. Even Google can't get its own story straight with Gemini Nano AI, but at least the company is under-promising and over-delivering on that and Circle to Search. Between these moves and a major Samsung One UI rollout, the two biggest players in the Android space absolutely dominated this week's top headlines.
