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Google announces Play Games Sidekick for Android, an in-game overlay that provides access to Gemini Live while playing games downloaded from the Play Store (Abner Li/9to5Google)
https://9to5google.com/2025/09/23/play-games-sidekick-gemini-live/

Play Games Sidekick is Gemini Live for Android games 
Google is bringing Gemini Live to gaming on Android with Play Games Sidekick. Like a coach, it’s meant to be...

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Ty Segall:
🎵 The Hand
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Google rolls out AI Mode to 180 countries and territories in English, after testing in the US, UK, and India, and plans to add more languages and regions "soon" (Abner Li/9to5Google)
https://9to5google.com/2025/08/21/google-ai-mode-countries-agentic/

Google AI Mode expanding to 180 countries, getting agentic restaurant finder, more
Google is now bringing AI Mode to many more countries around the world, while AI Ultra subscribers will get to use an agentic capability.

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Ty Segall:
🎵 The Big Day
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https://tysegall.bandcamp.com/track/the-big-day-2
https://open.spotify.com/track/48seaulnHrvSRfxkJ4n3q2

Pixel 10 series get a Gemini Nano-powered Journal app, music creation feature for recorder, NotebookLM integration for screenshots, Gboard Writing Tools, more (Abner Li/9to5Google)
https://9to5google.com/2025/08/20/pixel-10-journal-app/

Pixel 10 gets new Journal app, Recorder music creator, Gboard Smart Edit, more
With the Pixel 10, Google is introducing a new Journal app. There are also updates to Pixel Recorder, Screenshots, and Studio.

Google unveils the Tensor G5, a 3nm chip manufactured by TSMC, says it has "significant gains" in performance and runs the "newest" Gemini Nano model (Abner Li/9to5Google)
https://9to5google.com/2025/08/20/pixel-10-tensor-g5/

Google did more than just switch to TSMC for Tensor G5 — This is what’s new
The Pixel 10 and 10 Pro are powered by Tensor G5 for Google’s biggest upgrade to its custom silicon effort...

Google removes support for physical SIM cards on the Pixel 10 series in the US, relying solely on eSIM; Apple removed it with the iPhone 14 series in the US (Ben Schoon/9to5Google)
https://9to5google.com/2025/08/20/pixel-10-10-…

Pixel 10, 10 Pro, and 10 Pro XL remove support for physical SIM cards in the US
Google is, for the first time, entirely removing support for a physical SIM card in the US versions of the Pixel 10 series.