Michael Calore: I mean, that does happen, right? With the budget phones. Lauren Goode: Do you ever think a company would say, “This is our new G3 chip, it's worse than the G2”? “We've gone backwards, the opposite of Moore's law.” The screen is a little bit better, a little bit more advanced. It's faster and more capable than the G2 before. There's a new chip inside, Google's Tensor G3 chip. The Pixel 8 and the Pixel 8 Pro are mostly the same as last year. You kind of know what to expect whenever a new phone comes out. Michael Calore: I mean, I have a 6 now, and the 8 is out, so it's a two-year upgrade path for me usually. Mike, are you going to update your Pixel phone? But first, let's give the people what they want. And we've brought Paresh on the show because he's writing about this ongoing antitrust case for WIRED. The US government is investigating whether Google has used its dominance in online search to stifle competition and fill its platform with ads. It's currently the fourth week of a historic antitrust trial. But this time period is anything but routine for Google. All in all, it felt like a pretty routine product announcement event. It also highlighted a bunch of software updates that basically continued the trend this year of sticking generative AI in absolutely everything. Google held a press event in New York this week, where it showed off new hardware like the Pixel 8 phone and a new smartwatch. So as Mike and I talked about, thankfully we are almost at the end of tech silly season, and it has concluded with Google. We were just waiting for the big news to come out of Google. Lauren Goode: We were just letting your voice get really warmed up. Lauren Goode: I think this is your inaugural Gadget Lab. Paresh, it's so great to have you on the show. Lauren Goode: And we're also joined in studio this week by WIRED senior writer Paresh Dave.
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